| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1896 - 434 pagine
...Provinceland is "alluvial ; that is, washed up by the ocean" (371). Lieut, (afterwards Admiral) CH Davis wrote a "Memoir upon the geological action of the tidal and other currents of the ocean" (Mem. Amer. Acad., Boston, 1849, IV. 117-156), in which he called attention to the repeated occurrence... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1877 - 368 pagine
...valuable additions to knowledge, and was led to the adoption of new and striking views, embodied in his ''Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean " (Mem. Am. Acad., new series, vol. iv.) and his " Law of Deposit of the Flood Tide " (Smithsonian... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1877 - 378 pagine
...valuable additions to knowledge, and was led to the adoption of new and striking views, embod,ed in his " Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean " (Mem. Am. Acad., new series, vol. iv.) and his " Law of Deposit of the Flood Tide" (Smithsonian Contributions,... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1852 - 384 pagine
...impermeable to and insoluble -in the water in which it occurs." Lieutenant CH Davis, USN, presented a paper upon the " Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean." " The object of this memoir," he said, " is to present the subject of the tides and currents of the... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1852 - 406 pagine
...impermeable to and insoluble in the water in which it occurs." Lieutenant CH Davis, USN, presented a paper upon the " Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean." " The object of this memoir," he said, " is to present the subject of the tides and currents of the... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1849 - 494 pagine
...for its proper determination. V Page 63. line 19i for no, " 348 " read 342. (To be continued.} II. A Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean. Br CHARLES HENRY DAVIS, AM, AAS, ETC. LIRUTBWANT U. 8. NAVY. (Communicated to the Academy, November... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1849 - 482 pagine
...V Page 63, line 19, for no. " 348 " read 342. (To be continued.) Published, February 10, 1849. II. A Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean. Br CHARLES HENRY DAVIS, AM, AAS, ETC. LIBUTBNANT O. 8. NAVT. (Communicated to the Academy, November... | |
| Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin - 1849 - 458 pagine
...Austin jun., a Monograph on recent and fossil, Crinoidea. No. 8. (Bristol) 4. Charles Henry Davis, a Memoir upon the geological action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean. Front the Memoirs of the American Academy of arts and sciences, New Sei ies Vol. IV. Cambridge 18'l9.... | |
| 1849 - 1118 pagine
...Lieut. MF MAURV, ^USN,303. — Introduction to Meteorology, by DAVID PURDIE THOMSON, MD: A Memoir on the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean, by CHARLES HENRY DAVIS. AM, Lieut. U. 8. N , 305 — Sixty-second Annual Report of the Regents of the... | |
| 1850 - 750 pagine
...35 nubr é e, ©canbiiiíiCienS grjfafletflätten. S3e= orbeitet con ©ujl. Seon^arb 708. H. Davis, Memoir upon the geological Action of the tidal and other Currents of the Ocean 1270,. .,.;. •;.-•;• WL Dearborn, description of a rail road route from St. Louis to San Francisco,... | |
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