No CrossRef data available.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Mr. Hill's paper in the June Number of the Magazine has incited me to recur to the great question possibility of changes in the earth's axis of rotation within itself. Mr. Hill is well known to be an accomplished geologist; but he writes as if he were simply a physicist, without sympathies for the difficulties of his brethren of the hammer. Yet we feel certain that such is not the case. We know that he has studied in the field the tremendous movements which the strata have undergone, being often compressed into a small part of their original length: that he has appreciated the almost ubiquitous presence, either in past or present time, of volcanic activity: that he must feel how unsatisfactory all explanations short of a change in latitude are to account for the flora of a warm climate within the arctic circle. We therefore appeal to him, and to others similarly qualified, to look at this subject from both sides.
page 291 note 1 Incorrectly marked as N. America on the Plate.
page 292 note 1 Proc. Roy. Soc. No. 82, 1866.
page 292 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxii. Presidential Address, p. 108.Google Scholar
page 292 note 3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxiv. p. 35.Google Scholar
page 292 note 4 Trans. Royal Soc. vol. 167, part i.Google Scholar
page 292 note 5 SirThomson's, W. Sectional Address, Nature, vol. xiv. 1876, p. 429, 2nd column.Google Scholar
page 292 note 6 ibid.
page 292 note 7 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1875, p. 470.Google Scholar
page 293 note 1 Trans. Roy. Soc. part ii. 1839, quoted in his Report to the British Association, 1848.
page 294 note 1 Page 48.
page 294 note 2 Vide suprà, p. 292.
page 295 note 1 Scrope's Volcanos, p. 477, ed. 1862.
page 295 note 2 Miss Birt's Hawaiian Archipelago. See Nature, vol. xi. p. 324.Google Scholar
page 295 note 3 Trans. Cambridge Phil. Soc., vol. xii. part ii., abstracted in Geol. Mag. N.S. Vol. I. p. 60.Google Scholar
page 297 note 1 Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, March 11, by CaptEvans, F. J. C.B., F.R.S., Hydrographer to the Admiralty, Nature, May 16, 1878.Google Scholar