The New Biological Station at Port Erin (Isle of Man), Being the ... Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, Volume 18, Part 1904C. Tinling, 1904 - Marine biology |
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Page 41 - As announced in the preface to ASCIDIA, a donation from Mr. FH Gossage of Woolton met the expense of preparing the plates in illustration of the first few Memoirs, and so enabled the Committee to commence the publication of the series sooner than would otherwise have been possible.
Page 66 - Further search may produce still more satisfactory evidence that the elk survived to the period of these peats and forests, and so became a contemporary of our earliest inhabitants of Man. If so, not only would it form a connecting link between man and the glacial period in this area, but it is of special interest in that " it is the sole survivor from the Pleistocene into the Prehistoric age, which has since * On the other hand, Lomas (Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc...
Page 50 - VI. — Each worker is entitled to a work place opposite a window in the Laboratory, and may make use of the microscopes, reagents, and other apparatus, and of the boats, dredges, tow-nets, &c., so far as is compatible with the claims of other workers, and with the routine work of the Station.
Page 64 - In a meadow adjoining Close Mooar, the property of Professor E. Forbes, were found a short time ago a stone axe and sharpening or edge stone, a few feet asunder. They lay upon a bed of fine sand, covered with a stratum about four feet thick of peat — trunks of oak trees, &c., and over the peat was a bed of blue alluvial clay to the depth of three or four feet.
Page 104 - The circle remained untouched, its diameter being 10 yards -the circumference of the whole ruin is 90 yards. The largest stones are 10 feet high, and between the two central ones is an opening into the first cist 20 inches wide. In this cist, 10 feet long and 5ft. 6in. wide, with side stones leaning towards each other at the top, we found black carbonaceous and grey unctuous earth, with fragments of charcoal. Under the side stones were pieces of human bone — portions of a skull with the suture...
Page 73 - Neolithic floors or platforms," that is to say, areas of the ancient surface where flint implements of many kinds have been actually manufactured. At the West Craig and the Lagagh in Andreas, at Cass-ny-Hawin, near Ronaldsway, at Ballakaighan, German, and at Port St. Mary, have been found great accumulations of cores, chips, and worked flints of very primitive type. On the brooghs overlooking Ramsey Mooragh, building operations about 20 years ago disclosed an area, at a depth of from four to six...
Page 49 - Chadwick), who will keep the keys, and will decide, in the event of any difficulty, which places are to be occupied by workers, and how the tanks, boats, collecting apparatus, &c., are to be employed.
Page 47 - Assistant — Mr. TN CREGEEN. CONSTITUTION OF THE LMBC (Established March, 1885.) I. — The OBJECT of the LMBC is to investigate the Marine Fauna and Flora (and any related subjects such as submarine geology and the physical condition of the water) of Liverpool Bay and the neighbouring parts of the Irish Sea and, if practicable, to establish and maintain a Biological Station on some convenient part of the coast.
Page 151 - Sans changer," or some other insignia of the Stanleys, with the initials of the reigning Sovereign. The Duke of Athol stamped his copper coinage with the letter A, and a crown on the obverse. Our figure 52 is taken from Plate I. of the Manks Society, Vol. XVII. About 1825, paper cards or tickets, stamped for Is., 2s. 6d., and 5s. British were legal currency; also copper pence tokens by small bankers in all parts of the country, with one pound notes of private bankers licensed by the Insular Government....
Page 81 - In the thick end a hole is pierced, perhaps for passing a thong or rope of hide through. Many such canoes have been found along the margin of the Clyde about Glasgow, some from " a single oak stem, hollowed out by blunt tools, probably stone axes, aided by the action of fire; a few cut beautifully smooth, evidently with metallic tools.