 | Edward Salisbury Dana, Charles Schuchert - American journal of science - 1918 - 516 pages
...contents of which we have endeavored to make out a summary both of the laborers and their works. . . . The series of volumes must ever form a work of permanent...making original observations and forming collections. A summary follows presenting some facts as to the growth of scientific societies and scientific collections... | |
 | Earth sciences - 1918 - 800 pages
...contents of which we have endeavored to make out a summary both of the laborers and their works. . . . The series of volumes must ever form a work of permanent...making original observations and forming collections. A summary follows presenting some facts as to the growth of scientific societies and scientific collections... | |
 | Science - 1918 - 1430 pages
...contents of which we have endeavored to make out a summary both of the laborers and their works. . . . The series of volumes must ever form a work of permanent...cities and towns, and several of them have been active aiid efficient in making original observations and forming collections. A summary follows presenting... | |
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The series of volumes must ever form a work of permanent interest on account of its exhibiting the progress of American science during the long period which it covers. Comparing 1817 with 1847, we mark on this subject a very gratifying change. The cultivators... 