Wernerian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Wernerian
Example Sentences
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It was, I believe, first described in a paper I sent to the Wernerian Society some time ago: the figure is less than the natural size.
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Dr. Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian Society, where various papers on natural history were read, discussed, and afterwards published in the Transactions.
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Edinburgh, Plinian Society, 13;Royal Medical Society, 14; Wernerian Society, 14; lectures on Geology and Zoology in, 14. ——, studies at, 11-15.
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Mr. Low says that, when the inhabitants are looking after their sheep on the hills, the Skua often attacks them in such a manner that they are obliged to defend themselves with their cudgels held above their heads, on which it often kills itself; and Captain Vetch, In the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, says that it not only drives away Ravens and Eagles, but that the larger quadrupeds, such as horses and sheep, which venture near its nest, are immediately put to flight.
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But the abandonment of so essential a portion of the Wernerian creed prepared the way for further relinquishments.
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