scholarly journals V.—On the Occurrence of a Black Limestone in the Strata of the Maltese Islands

1892 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 361-364
Author(s):  
John H. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Late Professor ◽  
Maltese Islands ◽  
Crystalline Limestone ◽  
Coralline Limestone

While engaged in the examination of the superficial deposits of the Maltese Islands, I have often met with rounded pebbles and angular fragments of a black, crystalline limestone, either lying on the rock surfaces, or embedded in the Quaternary formations.The late Professor Leith Adams drew attention to the same fact as long ago as 1867, and in a paper which was published in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. he expressed an opinion that the fragments which he had seen lying on the surfaces of the sides and summits of the Gozitan Hills, belonged to a formation that was of a much later age than any of the rocks that are now to be found in situ in the islands.Dr. John Murray, too, notes in his brochure on the Maltese Islands the occurrence of similar fragments in the neighbourhood of Marsa Scirocco, and he further adds that no evidences of the rock having been found in situ in the islands had hitherto been recorded. The remarks of these gentlemen led me to consider the matter attentively, and I have, during the last year, been carrying on investigations with the object of discovering the origin of the black marble, the result of which has been to show that it is but a variety of the Lower Coralline Limestone, the basement bed of the Maltese series, and that it occurs extensively in situ in that formation.

Rediscovery and taxonomic analysis of Romulea melitensis (Iridaceae) from the Maltese islands

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 483 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-243
Author(s):  
STEPHEN MIFSUD
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Abaxial Surface ◽  
The Past ◽  
Maltese Islands ◽  
Taxonomic Analysis ◽  
Morphological Approach ◽  
Dark Colour ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dark Violet

The status of the Maltese endemic Romulea melitensis remained doubtful since its description by Beguinot in 1907, primarily because plants with the morphological characters as referred in the diagnosis have not been substantiated in situ. A sand crocus with the combination of a smallish, dark violet corolla with a yellow throat and perianth segments up to 1.5 mm wide have never been witnessed in the Maltese Islands. A detailed analysis of the protologue and the type of R. melitensis has resulted that when Beguinot examined the 30-year-old exsiccatae, two important characters were misinterpreted, leading to the current ambiguous status of R. melitensis. A detailed account accompanied by specific illustrations and tabulated datasets are given to address this taxonomic misconception. In effect, R. melitensis has wider tepals and the dark colour of the corolla referred in the protologue is exhibited only at the abaxial surface of the tepals in some individuals. Under this adjusted morphological approach, ten populations corresponding to R. melitensis have been found in the Maltese islands, three of which matching completely with the taxon’s lectotype. In addition, morphological, palynological and chorological studies on these populations strongly suggest that R. melitensis is a hybrid between R. columnae and R. variicolor - a Siculo-Maltese endemic species. An identification key to the species of Romulea occurring or reported in the past from the Maltese Islands is supplied in this work.

V.—Contributions to the Geology of Ceylon: II. Silicification of Crystalline Limestones.

1904 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Coomákaswámy
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Siliceous Rocks ◽  
Crystalline Limestone ◽  
Mode Of Occurrence

The occurrence of small quantities of chert and opal, usually in or near exposures of crystalline limestone, but very often in fragments or boulders not quite in sitû, is not unusual in Ceylon. For some time the origin of these siliceous rocks remained obscure; observations made within the present year (1903), however, enable me to give a more detailed account of their mode of occurrence. I have had the advantage of my colleague Mr. James Parsons' company in examining many of the exposures, and have been able to discuss with him the problems raised.

scholarly journals VI.—On the Occurrence of Ursus ferox in the Pleistocene of Malta

1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-69
Author(s):  
John H. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Similar Condition ◽  
Aquatic Birds ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Maltese Islands

The labours of the late Admiral Spratt, R.N., and of the late Professor Leith Adams, F.B.S., in the cavern deposits of the Maltese Islands were rewarded by the finding of a unique and interesting land fauna, among which were Elephants, Hippopotami, Land-tortoises, gigantic Dormice, and aquatic Birds, the presence of whichinso limited an area was incompatible with the present existing physical conditions of the Islands. While carrying on his work of investigation in a cave in the Zebbug Gorge, Uied el Kbir,in1859, Spratt noticed that many of the remains of Elephants that were exhumed presented the appearance of having been fiercely gnawed, and later on when Adams was excavating the Mnaidra gap it was observed that many of the elephantine remains were in a similar condition.

IV.—On the Occurrence of Phoca Rugosidens, Owen, in Maltese Strata

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 215-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Geological Society ◽  
Maltese Islands ◽  
Lower Jaw

In a memoir which was read before the Geological Society of London in 1870, and which was published in the Proceedings of that Society and in the Malta papers, Dr. A. A. Caruana makes mention of a portion of a rib and of a lower jaw of a mammal which were obtained from the Globigerina Limestone at El Kbajer, near Kolla el Baida, in the island of Gozo; and after referring to the fact that no Carnivora had, up to that date, been found in the Maltese Islands, he described the El Kbajer fossils as being “a portion of the lower jaw of a Hyæna with several teeth in situ.”

An Indian Dancer

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
W. H. Haddon Squire
Keyword(s):  
Strict Sense ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Original Language ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Ritual Dance

The late Professor Collingwood claimed that the dance is the mother of all languages in the sense that every kind or order of language (speech, gesture, and so forth) is an offshoot from an original language of total bodily gesture; a language which we all use, whether aware of it or not—even to stand perfectly still, no less than making a movement, is in the strict sense a gesture. He also relates the dance to the artist's language of form and shape. He asks us to imagine an artist who wants to reproduce the emotional effect of a ritual dance in which the dancers trace a pattern on the ground. The emotional effect of the dance depends not on any instantaneous posture, but on the traced pattern. Obviously, he concludes, the sensible thing would be to leave out the dancers altogether, and draw the pattern by itself.

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