 But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts to ascertain the distinctive characters, number, and order of our strata has devolved on me.  Amos Eaton - Halaman 209oleh Harlan Hoge Ballard - 1897 - 82 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Amos Eaton - 1820 - 312 halaman
...Mitchill has amassed a large store of materials, and annexed them to the labors of Cuvier and Jameson. But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns, and of traversing, in all directions, our most rugged mountainous districts, to ascertain the distinctive characters,... | |
 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 1887 - 676 halaman
...taught the science of geology with success. Of himself he wrote, in these words of modest import: "But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns, and of traversing, in all directions, over most rugged mountainous districts, to ascertain the distinctive characters,... | |
 | Biological Society of Washington - 1888 - 180 halaman
...Mitchill has amassed a large store of materials and annexed them to the labors of Cuvier and Jameson. The drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns, and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts, to ascertain the distinctive characters, number,... | |
 | Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (Pittsfield, Mass.) - 1894 - 918 halaman
...remark parenthetically that it continued to exist until 1861, when it was closed on account of the %var, which absorbed many of its professors. This I learn...contained so many errors that I shall not attempt to point them out. I am very willing that it should be said, ' As this was the first attempt at a general... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1901 - 756 halaman
...Mitchill has amassed a large store of materials, and annexed them to the labors of Cuvier and Jameson. But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns, and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts, to ascertain the distinctive characters, number,... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1906 - 545 halaman
...has amassed a large store of materials, and annexed them to the labor» of Cuvier and Jameson. Bat the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts to ascertain the distinctive characters, number,... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1924 - 878 halaman
...Mitchill has amassed a large store of materials, and annexed them to the labors of Cuvier and Jameson. But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts to ascertain the distinctive characters, number,... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1924 - 886 halaman
...Mitchill has amassed a large store of materials, and annexed them to the labors of Cuvier and Jameson. But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts to ascertain the distinctive characters, number,... | |
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