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" ... mineralogists rather than astronomers must tell us. For a long time it was accepted without hesitation that these bodies required great heat for their first consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists.... "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 729
1886
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1856 - 454 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity is about that...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 35

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 500 pages
...transformations, mineralogists rather than astronomers must tell us. For a long time it wasaccepted without hesitation that these bodies required great...corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes." Director Haidingcr, in 18C1, said " With our present knowledge of natural laws these characteristically crystalline...
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American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 69

1855 - 480 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2nd. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3d. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4th. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5th. That their average specific gravity is about...
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Mineralogy and Chemistry

John Lawrence Smith - 1873 - 418 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action, corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity is about that...
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Mineralogy and Chemistry

John Lawrence Smith - 1873 - 408 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action, corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity is about that...
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The Canadian Record of Science, Volume 2

1887 - 590 pages
...the objections must mainly come from the nature and structure of meteoric stones and iron. alogists rather than astronomers must tell us. For a long time...With our present knowledge of natural laws, these chai-acteristically crystalline formations could not possibly have come into existence except under...
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Original Researches in Mineralogy and Chemistry

John Lawrence Smith - 1884 - 692 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...igneous action, corresponding to that of terrestrial rvolcanoes* 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity...
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Science, Volume 8

John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 720 pages
...consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, in 1855, asserted without reserve...rocks of the earth, as shown by the experiments of M. Daubrée, strengthened this conviction. Mr. Sorby, in 1877, said, "it appears to me that the conditions...
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Proceedings, Volume 35

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 506 pages
...varieties of location of the cometic orbits seem inexplicable upon any such hypothesis. Separate centres of condensation are to be supposed but they are not...of terrestrial volcanoes." Director Haidinger, in 1801, said " With our present knowledge of natural laws these characteristically crystalline formations...
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Constitution, List of Meetings, Officers, Committees, Fellows and ..., Issue 35

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 498 pages
...small mass compared with the mass of the planets. Add to this the comet's subsequent known history aa we are seeing it in the heavens. Have we therein known...terrestrial volcanoes." Director Haidinger, in 1861, said " \Vitli our present knowledge of natural laws these characteristically crystalline formations could...
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