Science: Geology from The Owl at the Bridge

Subjects include Asa Gray on NC botany, geology, chemistry, mensuration, geometry, meteorology, fossils, storms, smelting, mathematics; bibliographical notices & miscellanies; vii, 408 pages, 4 plates, illus.; pencil owner name on title-page; bound in blue marbled boards, 3/4 leather; front cover detached, the rest Good. Stock#ofc0369.

Contents include mineralogy, Connecticut reptiles, compound salt radicals, Niagara River, fossil footmarks, gallic acid, sailing, North American Equisetum species, astronomy, fossil infusoria, geology, iceberg theory of drift, travels in the Alps of Savoy, analysis of wines from Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, specimens of American Cider, birds in Cumberland County PA, meteorology, glaciers, mastodon remains in KY; bibliographical notices & miscellanies;… Ler mais sobre este item

Subjects include a memoir of William Maclure with portrait, climate, computing interest, fishes of Connecticut, astronomy, geology, natural history, corals, the Gulf Stream, chemistry; bibliographical notices & miscellanies; Number II, Gauss's theory of terrestrial magnetism, natural history of New England, fossils, copper, astronomy, mensuration, a new hippopotamus. vi, 424 pages, 5 plates incl. portrait frontispiece; bound in blue marbled… Ler mais sobre este item

Subjects: Valley of the Jordan, crystals in plant tissue, magnetism, New England coprolites, minerals, geology, astronomy, caricography, Alabama Meteoric Iron, many bibliographical notices & miscellanies (Prof. Henry's Experiments on Soap Bubbles); galvanography, zinc, a New Jersey fossil crocodile, Egyptian crania, meteorology, North Atlantic drift ice & currents, meteoric iron. vi, 408 pages, 2 plates, illus.; bound in 3/4 leather,… Ler mais sobre este item

Contains much on geology, mineralogy, and metals esp. copper & silver; plants; a new electro-magnetic engine; many bibliographical notices. vii, 412 pages, folding plate, text illus., index; edges & hinges scuffed; Good. Stock#ofc0363.

New Haven: Sold by A. H. Maltey Printed by B. L. Hamlen, 1841. Among the 32 articles and numerous notes is (pp. 117-122) "Remarks on the Geological Features of the Island of Owyhee or Hawaii... with an account of the Volcano Kirauea" (illustrated on the frontispiece). Hard Cover. vi, 412 pages, illus., 1 plate (shells), fronts., 23 cm.… Ler mais sobre este item

New Haven, Printed for the Editors by B. L. Hamlet, 1846. Hard Cover. viii, 456 pages, illus., plates; 22.5 cm. This volume includes several studies of hurricanes with tracking by measurements; observations on the geology of East Florida; three new mineral specimens from Arkansas; a volcanic study of Mt Etna, etc. VG; bound in 3/4 blue leather, spine dried.… Ler mais sobre este item

New-Haven: Printed and Published by S. Converse. Hard Cover. vi, [1], 404 p., 6 plates (4 folding), 1 folding map; 21.5 cm. Errata leaf after p. vi. Four sections: 1, Geology, Minerology, Topography, etc.; 2, Botany; 3, Zoology; 4, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanics, and Miscellaneous. Then follows (pp. 170-400) Intelligence and Miscellanies: Foreign; Domestic. Bound in 3/4 leather by Hope… Ler mais sobre este item

Washington, G.P.O., 1924. Soft Cover. Bulletin 70, Mineral Technology 2, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines. 114 p., index, illus., plates, folding map. 'Deposits of radium-bearing minerals in the United States are being rapidly depleted by wasteful exploitation, chiefly for the benefit of foreign markets.' Not in Laudamus & Krishnamurthy, The History of Atomic Energy… Ler mais sobre este item