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The Victorian naturalist (1975) (14596941630)
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Identifier: victorian929319751976luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors:
Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas
(1853–1936)
Alternative names
A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description
British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death
7 May 1853
10 June 1936
Location of birth/death
Stratford-upon-Avon
Albury
Authority control
: Q2865141
VIAF: 3802231
ISNI: 0000 0000 8417 8738
LCCN: n81111921
Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas
Open Library: OL4506631A
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q2865141
F. G. A. Barnard
(1858–1932)
Alternative names
Francis George Allman Barnard
Description
British pharmacist, naturalist and editor
Date of birth/death
1858
2 June 1932
Location of birth/death
Kew
Kew
Authority control
: Q107060473
VIAF: 40699264
LCCN: n81089221
NLA: 36356473
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q107060473
Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Concretionarystructures nearChipperfields. 14 Vict. Nat. Vol. 93
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but in the early days many a hair-raising story centred around some ofthese patches. Along this shorelinesandbanks have been and are stillforming on the shallow shelving rockyplatform, the land in shore is rela-tively high sandy and very porous, thiswould act as a gathering ground forfresh water which would drain downtowards the sea until no doubt some of the sands of the shoreline becomesupersaturated and developed quick-sand patches. Just below Langs there is anothernaturally reclaimed shoreline area, anda still larger one further on belowChipperfields these now form muchfavoured holiday resorts and picnicgrounds. Along this shore fossils occur in January /February 15 patches and pockets in the reddishferruginous sandstone and dark brownbeds and are not generally distributedin layers. When a pocket is struck theimpressions and casts of bivalve shellsare in the utmost profusion, the com-monest being examples of Placamensubroboratum and Mactra hamilto-nensis. Here is definite proof of
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