This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, who acted on behalf of the subscribers to the Billings' memorial portrait fund, and the following inscription accompanies the portrait: Elkanah Billings, Esq., F. G. S. Palaeontologist from 1856 to 1876. Presented to the Geological Survey of Canada by a Committee of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, who acted on behalf of the subscribers to the Billings' memorial portrait fund, and the following inscription accompanies the portrait: Elkanah Billings, Esq., F. G. S. Palaeontologist from 1856 to 1876. Presented to the Geological Survey of Canada by a Committee of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Dec. IIth, 1900, on behalf of his friends and admirers. FOR ', RATION OI' T1IK ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARTH'S CRUST, of. l). I, . Dt-i'AHi '. Mr (Bale). These models, made of plaster, are constructed in such a manner as to show not only the geological features of the surface, but also on the sides diagrammatic sections illustrate the structure of the underlying crust To each such model belongs a cap representing the masses of rock, which are supposed to have been worn away by denudation, and showing the way in which the folding of the strata has taken place. The motives are taken from some of the most interesting parts of the Alps and the Jura Mts. in Switzerland. Among these are also two different representations of the renownei double fold with inversion and thrust-plane." Price of the set of 8 models by Prof. Dr. L. Duparc. about 40 x 20 x 10 cm., the Glarner double fold about loo x 22 10 cm....................................... $100.00 Price of the Glarner-double-fold model by Prof. Dr. A. Schmidt, size about 100 x 22 x 10 cm.......... 25.00 (An accurate description of these models will be sent free on appli cation.) New Collections of Rocks and Thin Sections. Collection A. In addition to the well-known collection of 250 rocks and thin sections, according to Prof. Dr. Rosenbusch's book on Petrology, I have now arranged an extension of the same, consisting of 30 rocks and sections; most of them are very rare and...
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