Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field ClubJohn Gilbert Baker, George Ralph Tate, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Tate Williams & Norgate, 1868 - 316 páginas |
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Alien Allendale Allenheads Alnwick altitude Alwinton Area ascending in Teesdale ascending to 550 Backhouse basalt beds British type Burn Castle Eden Dene Cheviot Cheviot-land coast Colonist Common in grassy Coquet Coquetdale Crag cultivated fields damp Darlington Derwent Dike ditches Durham East Allendale Embleton England English type Everywhere common Falcon Clints feet Flora Frequent Frosterley grassy places Gunnerton Hartlepool Harwood Dale hedge-banks Hexham High Force Highland type Holy Island Howick Hulne Kilhope Lough low country Magnesian Limestone Maritime miles Moor Mountain Limestone Native Newcastle North Tynedale Northumberland plants ponds porphyritic Prestwick Carr Professor Oliver Range ravine ridge road-sides rocks Rookhope Rothbury sandstone Scottish type Seaton Carew shale side species stream stream-sides Tees Teesdale tract Tynedale unfrequent vulgaris W. H. Brown Wansbeck waste ground Weardale Welhope Widdy Bank Wooler Water Xerophilous yards in East yards in Harwood yards in Teesdale yards on Cheviot yards on Highfield
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Página 13 - Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne, England, for which he invited the Society to exchange a copy of its publications.
Página 12 - ... members of the University, being members of the Senate, appointed by the Senate ; and at any meeting of such Committee the Mayor, if present, shall be the Chairman ; and in...
Página 63 - This may be ascribed, in some measure, to the presence of cold easterly winds during the spring months, destroying the blossoms ; to the low temperature of our autumns, which prevents the young wood from hardening and maturing the buds enveloping the flowers in embryo ; but more especially to the want of a continuance of sufficient heat, during the summer, to bring the fruit which is occasionally formed to perfection, for all these trees withstand the winter frost tolerably well in sheltered situations....
Página 12 - They also shall have the power to decide upon the propriety of communicating to the Society any papers which may be received, as well as upon their subsequent insertion in the Records of the Society...
Página 26 - It protrudes through beds of the Tuedian group ; and near to it is the peculiar Magnesian Limestone with chert nodules. AUGITIC ROCKS. The Basaltic Whin Sill is the most remarkable rock in the North of England on account of its long and tortuous range, and of its relation to, and effect upon, the strata it traverses, and among which it has been intruded. A sill it has been called, because sometimes seen, like a stratum, intercalated among stratified rocks. It is not, however, a true stratum, for...
Página 9 - The upper group, which may be designated calcareous, includes all the beds, from the base of the Millstone Grit, down to the base of the Dun Limestone, the lowest limestone of any value in the formation : it has an aggregate thickness of about 1700 feet, and is chiefly distinguishable by its good workable limestones, interstratified among alternations of sandstone, shale, and coal, and by the large number of marine organisms connected with the calcareous strata. Of limestones there are upwards of...
Página 63 - ... tolerably well in sheltered situations. The Vine seldom flowers, and if by chance small grapes are produced, they soon drop off. The Fig is seldom seen out of the hot-house, and is always barren. The Quince and Medlar flower freely, but their fruit never...
Página 12 - ... dreary aspect which characterizes all the higher portion of the mining district, rendered in moist weather or in winter still more dreary by hanging mists on the summits, or wasting snows scattered over the wide expansive sides of the hills, but from the massive character of the scenery, rendered beautiful and even sublime by the blue shades of evening, or the subdued effect of moonlight...
Página 31 - Leitham, the whole ascertained course being about 14 miles. The Beadnell Dike is well exposed on the coast, rising like a Cyclopean wall through sandstone, limestone, shale, and coal beds, whose relative position is but slightly altered, but whose structural characters are greatly changed : coal for some distance from it is valueless, limestone near it will not burn into lime, and shale and sandstone are indurated. The mutual transference of qualities, between the basalt and the stratified rocks...