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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (Volume 31); Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the

The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (Volume 31); Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the

Jameson, Robert

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ISBN10: 1153838222
ISBN13: 9781153838221
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.73 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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.1841 Excerpt: ... Lapland) Finland, Estonia, the government of Olonetz, as well as those parts of the government of Archangel situate to the south and cast of the White Sea, were still covered by the waters of the sea, above which the only part that was elevated, like an island, was the highest portion of Russian Lapland. At this period the floating ice of the Scandinavian chain and of Lapland may have come, without being exposed to any severe concussion, into the plains of northern Germany and central Russia, leaving erratic blocks as traces of their voyages, as happens every spring with the ice of the largest hikes of Finland. With regard to the southern limit at which the erratic blocks of the north have been dispersed in the interior of Russia, science will receive important information from a series of recent expeditious undertaken by M. le Baron de Meyendorff; at least I infer thus much from the obliging communications with which he has favoured me. Description ofVespertilio Daubentonii, from Specimens found in Aberdeenshire. By William Macgillivray, A.M., M.W.S., ftc., Professor of Natural History in the Marischal College University of Aberdeen. Communicated by the Author. Among the first fruits of my labours in the hitherto littleexplored district in which it has pleased Providence to assign me a location, has been the discovery of a species of Bat, which one could scarcely have expected to find so far north in Scotland. Even in the southern districts of that country I have never met with any other species of Cheiroptera than Vespertilio Pipistrellus and Plecotus auritus, both of which also occur in Aberdeenshire. Such, then, being the paucity of species belonging to this family among us, any addition to the number known must prove interesting to zoologists in all pa...

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