https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113950 2026-04-23T04:59:47Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/120393 Title: Bulletin de la société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. No 14 - Février 1850. Tome II Abstract: Lettres de NN. SS. les Archevêques et Évêques Nous ne pouvons mieux inaugurer ce numéro qu'en plaçant à la première page des extraits de lettres récemment adressées au Conseil général par plusieurs de NN. SS. les Archevêques et Évêques de France. Nos confrères, en lisant ces lettres si bienveillantes, partageront notre reconnaissance et notre légitime fierté. A mesure que notre Société devient plus ancienne et plus étendue, la conservation de ce bon esprit qui l'a jusqu'ici fortifiée, unie et dirigée vers un but exclusif de religion et de charité, semblerait difficile si nous n'avions un moyen de nous assurer à chaque moment que nous sommes toujours dans les voies de Dieu. Cette assurance, nous la trouvons dans l'approbation du Souverain-Pontife, des prélats, des ministres de l'Église. [Excerpt] 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/120299 Title: Bulletin de la Société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. No 13 - Janvier 1850. Tome II Abstract: Il y a dix-huit mois, nous commencions les modestes Annales de la Société dans des circonstances difficiles et peu propres en apparence à une expérience aussi nouvelle parmi nous. La divine Providence a béni nos efforts; non-seulement elle a permis à notre Bulletin de se continuer et de vivre, non-seulement elle a dissipé les doutes et les inquiétudes qui s'élevaient dans l'esprit de quelques-uns, mais elle nous a donné de réussir sur un grand nombre de points que nous avions en vue. [Excerpt] 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/118712 Title: On the formation of continuous tabular masses of stony lava on steep slopes ; with remarks on the mode of origin of Mount Etna, and the theory of 'craters of elevation.' Abstract: The question whether lava can consolidate on a steep slope, so as to form strata of stony and compact rock, inclined at angles of from 10° to more than 30°, has of late years acquired considerable importance, because geologists of high authority have affirmed that lavas which congeal on a declivity exceeding 5° or 6° are never continuous and solid, but are entirely composed of scoriaceous and fragmentary materials. From the law thus supposed to govern the consolidation of melted matter of volcanic origin, it has been logically inferred that all great volcanic mountains owe their conical form principally to upheaval or to a force acting from below and exerting an upward and outward pressure on beds originally horizontal or nearly horizontal. For in all such mountains there are found to exist some stony layers dipping at 10°, 15°, 25°, or even higher angles; and according to the assumed law, such an inclined position of the beds must have been acquired subsequently to their origin. [Excerpt] Description: From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London for June 10, 1858; Has written inscriptions and stamps on the first and last pages 1858-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/118711 Title: Plan of the Bombay Economic Museum Abstract: Memorandum on the subject of the Establishment of an Economic Museum at Bombay; The Museum is intended to afford a repository for every variety of Raw Material, - animal, vegetable, and mineral,- which the East supplies, used as food, medicine, or clothing, or convertible, by the application of human industry, into anything that becomes subject of merchandize : of all tools, instruments, machines, and implements, made use of in the process of transformation, and of the manufactures themselves which are the result.; The articles will be arranged under a double system of classification, the first referring to the locality from which they are obtained, the Second referring to their characters. [Excerpt] Description: From the transactions of the Geographical Society for 1848.; "Annals of India for 1849" 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z