"Saussure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... often divided by subsequent floods into hillocks, which cross the valley like ancient earthworks, or embankments made to dam up a river. Some of these transverse barriers were formerly pointed out by Saussure below the glacier of the Rhone, as proving how far it had once transgressed its present boundaries. On these moraines we see many large angular fragments, which, having been carried along the surface of the ice, have not had their edges ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell
... Amer. Fauna, 13:1-140, 3 pls., 39 figs. in text, October 16, 1897), the red bat, Lasiurus borealis, was known from the southern half of Mexico but he did not know that the hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus, also occurred there. Therefore, the name A[talapha]. mexicana Saussure (Revue et magasin de zoologie, 13 (ser. 2): 97, March, 1861) that clearly pertained to a lasiurine bat, almost certainly from southern Mexico, was applied by Miller (op. cit.: 111) to the red bat as a subspecific name. Subsequently, the hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus cinereus (Beauvois ...
— A New Name for the Mexican Red Bat • E. Raymond Hall
... to Ingenhouse. Finally, it was Sennebier who showed that oxygen is obtained from leaves only when carbonic acid has been introduced into the atmosphere where they remain. Later on, T. De Saussure and Boussingault inquired into the conditions most favorable to assimilation. Boussingault demonstrated, in addition, that the volume of carbonic acid absorbed was equal to that of the oxygen emitted. Now we know, through a common chemical experiment, ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 822 - Volume XXXII, Number 822. Issue Date October 3, 1891 • Various |
