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Patent US5907672 - System for backing up computer disk volumes with error remapping of flawed ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA system for backing up data from a computer disk volume at very high speed by saving a logical image copy of the volume to a backup medium such as magnetic tape. This logical image copy can later be restored in its entirety to a disk volume with a different physical geometry and flaw map in a disaster...http://www.google.com/patents/US5907672?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5907672 - System for backing up computer disk volumes with error remapping of flawed memory addressesAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS5907672 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 08/539,315Publication dateMay 25, 1999Filing dateOct 4, 1995Priority dateOct 4, 1995Fee statusPaidAlso published asEP0767431A1Publication number08539315, 539315, US 5907672 A, US 5907672A, US-A-5907672, US5907672 A, US5907672AInventorsJohn E. G. Matze, Douglas L. WhitingOriginal AssigneeStac, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (437), Classifications (8), Legal Events (16) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetSystem for backing up computer disk volumes with error remapping of flawed memory addresses
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Power Rankings: January | New Slang
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About mid-January, I was sitting at my desk reading a handful of articles written about New Slang favorite, American Aquarium. Their upcoming album Wolves (officially released Tuesday Feb 03), has been deservingly called their best album to date and seemingly at the cusp of being the breakout stars of 2015. It’s been many years, tears, massive amounts of hard work, perseverance and determination, and well as just being a group of talented individuals who have steadily worked on their craft and became better at virtually everything since their debut album Antique Hearts in 2006.
With that, I threw the question out there to Twitter. Who was the artist poised to take over the hypothetical championship belt with who I thought were the overall winners of the last five years.
2010: Ryan Bingham hot off his work on Crazy Heart and his album Junky Star.
2011: Hayes Carll with his rambling set of American storytelling songs with KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories).
2012: John Fullbright with his Grammy nominated From the Ground Up–Though, we did agree with Galleywinter who brought up Fullbright’s former running mates Turnpike Troubadours who released Diamonds & Gasoline as having a pretty damn good 2012 as well.
2013: Jason Isbell with the American classic Southeastern. 2014: Sturgill Simpson with the album christened, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, as the return to “classic country” standards.
So who is that next band? We all through out some names–AA, William Clark Green, Shinyribs, John Moreland, Jonathan Tyler, Andrew Combs–and many, many more, but you get the idea. In short, we’ve decided to keep up with this on a month-to-month basis–something that should be viewed as a fun, interesting way to discuss who has been having pretty damn good months as the year passes. And so it goes. January Power Rankings
January has to really start off with the reigning Championship belt holder retaining ownership. It’s not because other folks didn’t reach out and go for it either. Simpson just simply has some serious staying power. He announced that he would be signing a record deal with Atlantic Records, which is a pretty big deal. It’s been reported time and time again that Metamodern Sounds was made with a budget of about $4,000 dollars so actually being on a label means Simpson will have just about anything and everything at his disposal whenever he goes into the studio to record his next record. Add in the fact that he’s currently selling out shows from here to the moon and doing so until 2053 the end of end of July (at least according to his site)–including a jam-packed weekend of four Texas dates (More here.) You should also read the latest Simpson interview done by Nashville Scene here.
The 2010 championship belt holder returned to form with the release of Fear and Saturday Night, his fifth “major label” album and follow-up to 2012’s uneven Tomorrowland. It’s no secret that Bingham has continuously been looking to shake the “Texas country” label since Mescalito. The labeling of Bingham has obviously been a misguided one. Tomorrowland was basically Bingham’s last attempt to do so–and did he ever (Though, I do think it did backfire to an extent with “Guess Who’s Knockin'” that ended up being a battle cry for confused frat cowboys across the south). With Saturday Night, found that middle ground of being able to write about things he’s familiar with while continuing to expand sonically. At his core, he’s still that West Texas cowboy searching for enlightenment, truth, and sometimes, himself. He’s currently on a sold out solo tour in Europe (ends 2/10) before going on a co-headlining tour with Memphis rockers Lucero for the better parts of February and March. We’ll have more on Bingham in review of Fear and Saturday Night shortly.
No single band has come off this past year’s MusicFest in Steamboat Springs, Colo. hotter than American Aquarium. Do you feel the buzz machine at work? Jump on the bandwagon if you haven’t done so already. They’ve just today (Feb 3) released their latest album Wolves (We’ll count this towards February). They’re in just about every music publication of relevancy as of late. They’re getting rave reviews–and not just for Wolves–for their live performances, their work ethic, their coming of age, their determination, etc. For a band who wears the “Hardest Working Band Going” patch proudly, you’ve come to expect seeing them announce a run monster run of shows, but even I had to do a double take when they announced 52 show dates in 80 days. That’s a show a week for an entire year crunched into just under three months. That’s just incredible. This past weekend was their “Wolves Weekend” in their hometown of Raleigh. It was back-to-back sold out Album Release shows at the Lincoln Theatre with the likes of Black Lillies, Turnpike Troubadours, John Moreland, and Cory Branan opening over the two night event (here’s a show review from Raleigh’s Indy Week here).
Wade Bowen has been on a tear as of late. He’s still coming in hot after releasing Wade Bowen back in late October. We’ve talked glowingly about that record a ton in the past few months (Read here and here.) Really, if you talk about 2014, you could argue that he’d be up at the second or third for the year. As far as this month goes though, he’s done a few really cool things. 1) He played “When I Woke Up Today” on Conan the second week of January, his first national late night spotlight (Watch here.) 2) He and Randy Rogers announced a long rumored and awaited collaborative album titled Hold My Beer with a slated release date of April 06 (More on that here).
Cody Canada & The Departed released their third full-length album–and first after the departure of co-founder Seth James–HippieLovePunk, in mid-January. As Galleywinter pointed out in their review of the album, when an album releases, it’s typical of bands to tweet about an album, but The Departed certainly had the widest range of folks copping and supporting the album’s release–“everyone from Dierks Bentley to Sons of Bill.” It’s certainly partly because of the legacy Canada and company. At this point, it’s not just contemporaries of theirs left in awe, it’s all those kids who picked up a guitar, pen and pad, and started a garage rock band after the release of any of Cross Canadian Ragweed’s albums that sprinkled the past decade. But more than anything, it’s just that HippieLovePunk is 1) a solid set of songs, 2) the first of The Departed albums that feels totally comfortable with who they are. You can’t be naive to think of them as just Cody Canada & The Departed. They are Cody Canada & The Departed (Cross Canadian Ragweed’s new band)–as unfair as that probably is–it’s still true. They hold a certain level of esteem that few bands even know about.
Other Albums Released In January That We’ve Enjoyed That You Could Classify as “Americana”
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors Medicine
Benton Leachman Bury the Hatchet
Punch Brothers The Phosphorescent Blues
Justin Townes Earle Absent Fathers
Haley Cole Illusions
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Patent US6971502 - Method of conveying extrusion molded products and device for use in the method - Google Patents
A conveyor system having an expansion conveyor interposed between some of a plurality of conveyors of a conveying unit to extend the conveying line when trouble is detected at a receiving unit. Upon detection of trouble the extruder revolution speed and the conveyor speed are changed to reduce the conveying...http://www.google.com/patents/US6971502?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6971502 - Method of conveying extrusion molded products and device for use in the method
Publication number US6971502 B2
Application number US 10/501,590
PCT number PCT/JP2003/000771
Also published as CN1622909A, CN1622909B, DE60332319D1, EP1479624A1, EP1479624A4, EP1479624B1, US20050085944, WO2003064300A1
Publication number 10501590, 501590, PCT/2003/771, PCT/JP/2003/000771, PCT/JP/2003/00771, PCT/JP/3/000771, PCT/JP/3/00771, PCT/JP2003/000771, PCT/JP2003/00771, PCT/JP2003000771, PCT/JP200300771, PCT/JP3/000771, PCT/JP3/00771, PCT/JP3000771, PCT/JP300771, US 6971502 B2, US 6971502B2, US-B2-6971502, US6971502 B2, US6971502B2
Inventors Kazuhiko Ura, Yoshitaka Hirao
Method of conveying extrusion molded products and device for use in the method
US 6971502 B2
A conveyor system having an expansion conveyor interposed between some of a plurality of conveyors of a conveying unit to extend the conveying line when trouble is detected at a receiving unit. Upon detection of trouble the extruder revolution speed and the conveyor speed are changed to reduce the conveying speed not to carry molded products to the receiving unit.
1. A method of conveying extrusion molded products from a material feed unit to a receiving unit by a plurality of conveyors, comprising:
removably interposing at least one expansion conveyor between some of the plurality of the conveyors causing expansion or contraction thereby adjusting a conveying speed of the extrusion molded products to be carried, wherein
a conveyor speed of the plurality of conveyors can be changed to several levels,
a delivery speed of the material feed unit is controllable to be increased or decreased depending on an increase or decrease of the conveyor speed of the plurality of conveyors, and
obtaining in advance a response delay of the delivery speed of the material feed unit to the conveyor speed of the plurality of conveyors and an attenuation time, wherein a target value of the delivery speed is set based on the response delay and the attenuation time when the conveyor speed of the plurality of conveyors is changed.
2. The method of conveying extrusion molded products according to claim 1, wherein when the material feed unit has a plurality of extruders, the speed of each extruder is controlled according to a change in the conveyor speed of the conveyors.
3. The method of conveying extrusion molded products according to claim 1, wherein the target value of conveying speed is set according to the throughput of the receiving unit.
4. A device for conveying extrusion molded products from a material feed unit to a receiving unit, having a plurality of conveyors and at least one expansion conveyor removably interposed between some of the plurality of conveyors, comprising:
means for changing a conveyor speed of the conveyors to several levels;
means for controlling a delivery speed of the material feed unit to increase or decrease depending on an increase or decrease of the conveyor speed of the conveyors;
means for setting a target value of the delivery speed of the extrusion molded products based on a previously obtained conveyor speed of the conveyors, a response delay of the delivery speed of the material feed unit, and an attenuation time, at a time when the conveyor speed of the conveyors is changed, the target value of the delivery speed is set to the target value having been set.
5. The method of conveying extrusion molded products according to claim 2, wherein the target value of conveying speed is set according to the throughput of the receiving unit.
6. The method of conveying extrusion molded products according to claim 1, wherein the target value of conveying speed is set according to the throughput of the receiving unit.
The present invention relates to a method of conveying extrusion molded products which are continuously extruded, such as tire treads, and to a device for use in the method.
In an extruding/conveying line of the prior art, the above treads are delivered from an extruder at an extrusion speed which is determined according to the size of the extruded treads and carried to a receiving unit at the same speed as the above delivery speed by a plurality of conveyors.
However, since the conveying speed is fixed in the above prior art method, when a trouble occurs in the receiving unit, for example, the extruding/conveying line must be suspended and also work for processing after suspension before the resumption of extrusion takes a long time. Further, a trouble occurs in the end portion of an extrusion molded product during the time from the resumption of extrusion to the production of a quality product.
When a tread is removed before the receiving unit or when a tread is carried to a place other than the receiving unit, a quality product cannot be received by a predetermined method, whereby it is regarded as an inferior product.
It is an object of the present invention which has been made in view of the above problem to provide a method of conveying extrusion molded products, which prevents extrusion molded products from being carried to a receiving unit without suspending a conveying line for a predetermined time even when a trouble occurs in the receiving unit as well as a device for use in the method.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of conveying extrusion molded products from a material feed unit to a receiving unit by a plurality of conveyors, comprising interposing at least one expansion conveyor between conveyors out of the conveyors to expand or contract the expansion conveyor in order to adjust the conveying speed of the extrusion molded products. Thereby, even when a trouble occurs in the receiving unit, the above expansion conveyor is expanded to extend the conveying line so as to buffer the above extrusion molded products while they are carried. Therefore, the extrusion molded products are not carried to the receiving unit without suspending the conveying line for a predetermined time. After the trouble is solved, the above expansion conveyor is contracted to shorten the conveying line and the extrusion molded products in stock can be carried to the receiving unit swiftly. Therefore, productivity can be improved.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of conveying extrusion molded products, wherein the conveyor speed of the conveyors can be changed to several levels. Thereby, when the above trouble occurs, the conveying speed is reduced to extend the time elapsed before the buffer becomes full and after the trouble is solved, the conveying speed is increased to return the conveying line to normal operation swiftly.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of conveying extrusion molded products, wherein the delivery speed of the material feed unit is controlled according to a change in the conveyor speed of the conveyors. Thereby, the extrusion molded products can be carried smoothly.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of conveying extrusion molded products, wherein when the material feed unit has a plurality of extruders, the speed of each extruder is controlled according to a change in the conveyor speed of the conveyors.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of conveying extrusion molded products, wherein a response delay of the delivery speed of the material feed unit to the conveyor speed of the conveyors and the attenuation time are obtained in advance and when the conveyor speed of the conveyors is changed, the target value of the delivery speed is set based on the response delay and the attenuation time.
According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of conveying extrusion molded products, wherein the target value of conveying speed is set according to the throughput of the receiving unit.
According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a device for conveying extrusion molded products, having a plurality of conveyors to carry extrusion molded products from a material feed unit to a receiving unit, wherein at least one expansion conveyor is interposed between conveyors out of the plurality of conveyors.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the constitution of a device for carrying extrusion molded products according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a method of carrying extrusion molded products according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a speed table for conveyors and extruders;
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a response delay of the delivery speed of a tread extruder to the conveying speed of the conveyors and attenuation time; and
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a control example of the delivery speed of the extruder.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the constitution of a device for conveying extrusion molded products according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a tread extruder (to be referred to as “extruder” hereinafter) which is a material feed unit for delivering extrusion molded products at a predetermined delivery speed, 20 a conveying unit for carrying belt-like extruded treads 1 delivered from the extruder 10, which comprises a plurality of conveyors 21 to 27 and buffer means 20Z interposed between an inverted conveyor 24 and an inclined conveyor 25 and consisting of an expansion conveyor 20 a, inverted conveyor 20 b and expansion conveyor 20 c, and 30 a receiving unit for receiving the carried extruded treads 1, which is located on a downstream side of the last conveyor 27 of the above conveying unit 20.
Reference numeral 41 denotes a speed control CPU for controlling an extruder revolution R corresponding to the delivery speed of the extruder 10 and the conveyor speed V of the conveyors 21 to 27, 20 a, 20 b and 20 c, 42 an expansion control CPU for expanding and contracting the expansion conveyors 20 a and 20 c of the buffer means 20Z and moving the position of the inverted conveyor 20 b according to the expansion or contraction of the above expansion conveyors 20 a and 20 c, and 43 a reception control CPU for monitoring and controlling the tread receiving and processing states of the receiving unit 30.
A description is subsequently given of the operation of the device for conveying extrusion molded products of the present invention with reference to the flow chart of FIG. 2.
In step S10, the belt-like extruded treads 1 are delivered from the extruder 10 to the conveying unit 20 at a predetermined extruder speed (extruder revolution) R0 and carried to the receiving unit 30 at a conveyor speed V0 corresponding to the above extruder revolution R0. The control of the above extruder revolution R0 and the conveyor speed V0 is carried out by the speed control CPU 41.
The reception control CPU 43 monitors whether there is a trouble in the tread receiving and processing states of the receiving unit 30 (step S11). When there is no trouble, the above normal operation is continued. When a trouble occurs in the receiving unit 30, the above trouble information is sent to the expansion control CPU 42 and the speed control CPU 41 from the above reception control CPU 43 to enable the expansion control CPU 42 to expand the expansion conveyors 20 a and 20 c of the buffer means 20Z and move the inverted conveyor 20 b in accordance with the expansion of the above expansion conveyors 20 a and 20 b so as to extend the conveying line and to enable the speed control CPU 41 to change the extruder revolution R and the speed V of the conveyors 21–27, 20 a, 20 b and 20 c of the conveying unit 20 to RL (<R0) and VL (<V0), respectively, so as to reduce the conveying speed, thereby buffering the extruded treads 1 not to carry them to the receiving unit 30 (step S12).
FIG. 3 is a speed table showing the extruder speed (extruder revolution) R and the conveyor speed V controlled by the speed control CPU 41. In this embodiment, the conveyor speed V is set to several levels (the conveyor speed V is set to a range of 0.5 to 20 m/min in increments of 0.1 m/min) and the delivery speed of the extruder 10 is controlled according to a change in the conveyor speed V of the above conveyors. When there are a plurality of extruders 10 (extruder #1 and extruder #2 in this embodiment), the revolution R of each extruder is changed according to the above conveyor speed V.
When the speed of the extruder 10 (extruder revolution R) is changed according to the above conveyor speed, the amount of extrusion becomes insufficient. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, a response delay of the delivery speed of the extruder 10 to the conveyor speed of the conveyors and the attenuation time are obtained in advance and the target value of the above delivery speed is set based on the above response delay and the attenuation time when the conveyor speed of the conveyors is changed. Stated more specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the target value of delivery speed of the extruder 10 is set to a value obtained by adding the response delay “r” to the above conveyor speed. How fast (in seconds) the delivery speed of the extruder 10 is reduced to a target value is determined by the attenuation time “T” as a parameter for each extruder 10. Thereby, even when the speed is variable, predetermined quality products can be obtained.
The conveyor speed VL and the extruder revolution RL which are changed to reduce the delivery speed may be determined according to the trouble information sent from the reception control CPU 43 to the speed control CPU 41 or may be reduced stepwise every a predetermined time.
Thereby, when a trouble occurs in the receiving unit 30, it can be solved without carrying the extruded treads 1 to the receiving unit 30 until the above buffer means 20 becomes full, thereby making it possible to avoid the manufacture of inferior products.
During the above low-speed operation, the reception control CPU 43 monitors whether the trouble in the receiving unit 30 is solved or not (steps S13 and S14). When the trouble is not solved, low-speed operation is continued. If the trouble is not solved within a predetermined time during which buffering is possible, the delivery of the extruded treads 1 is suspended (step S15).
When the trouble is solved, the routine proceeds to step S16 where information on the solution of the trouble is sent to the expansion control CPU 42 and the speed control CPU 41 from the reception control CPU 43 so that the expansion control CPU 43 can contract the expansion conveyors 20 a and 20 c of the buffer means 20Z to the full, thereby minimizing the length of the conveying line and that the speed control CPU 41 changes the extruder revolution R and the conveyor speed V of the conveyors 21–27, 20 a, 20 b and 20 c of the conveying unit 20 to RH (>R0) and VH (>V0), respectively, to increase the conveying speed and carry the buffered extruded treads 1 to the receiving unit 30.
To shift to the high-speed operation, like the above low-speed operation, a response delay of the delivery speed of the extruder 10 to the conveyor speed of the conveyor belts and the attenuation time are obtained in advance, and the target value of delivery speed of the extruder 10 is set based on the response delay of the extruder 10 and the attenuation time.
The above high-speed operation is continued until the conveyance of the extruded treads 1 in stock ends (step S17) and then changed to normal operation, and the operation of the device is suspended when the conveyance of the extruded treads 1 ends (step S18).
Thereby, after return from a trouble, products in stock can be carried swiftly and the conveying line can be returned to normal operation swiftly.
According to this embodiment, since the buffer means 20Z consisting of the expansion conveyor 20 a, inverted conveyor 20 b and expansion conveyor 20 c is interposed between the conveyors 24 and 25 of the conveying unit 20, when a trouble occurs in the receiving unit 30, the expansion conveyors 20 a and 20 c of the buffer means 20Z are expanded by the expansion control CPU 42 to extend the conveying line, and the extruder revolution R and the conveyor speed V are changed by the speed control CPU 41 to reduce the conveying speed in order to buffer the extruded treads 1 not to carry them to the receiving unit 30. Therefore, the trouble can be solved without carrying the extruded treads 1 to the receiving unit 30 until the above buffer means 20Z becomes full, and the manufacture of inferior products can be avoided, thereby making it possible to improve production efficiency.
When the above trouble is solved, the conveying line of the buffer means 20Z is made the shortest and the extruder revolution R and the conveyor speed V are changed to increase the conveying speed and the buffered extruded treads 1 are carried to the receiving unit 30, thereby making it possible to carry the extruded treads 1 in stock swiftly. Therefore, the conveying line can be returned to normal operation swiftly.
In the above embodiment, the method of conveying the extruded treads 1 has been described. The present invention is not limited to the above method and may be applied to a method of conveying general extrusion molded products which are continuously delivered from the material feed unit.
The position of the buffer means 20Z is not limited to the position shown in FIG. 1 and may be between any conveyors out of the conveyors 21 to 27, and the buffer means 20Z may have at least one expansion conveyor.
The speed table showing the extruder revolution R and the conveyor speed V of FIG. 3 may be suitably set according to the actual situation of the conveying line.
As described above, according to the present invention, at least one expansion conveyor is interposed between conveyors in the conveying line of extrusion molded products to be expanded or contracted in order to adjust the conveying speed of the extrusion molded products. Therefore, even when a trouble occurs in the receiving unit, the conveying line is extended by expanding the above expansion conveyor to buffer the above extrusion molded products while they are carried. Therefore, it is possible not to carry the extruded products to the receiving unit without suspending the conveying line for a predetermined time. After the trouble is solved, the conveying line is shortened by contracting the above expansion conveyor to carry the extrusion molded products in stock to the receiving unit, thereby making it possible to avoid the manufacture of inferior products and to resume carrying the molded products to the receiving unit swiftly. Consequently, productivity can be greatly improved.
Since the conveyor speed of the above conveyors can be changed to several levels, the conveying speed can be reduced when the trouble occurs, thereby making it possible to extend the time elapsed before the buffer becomes full, and the conveying speed can be increased when the trouble is solved, thereby making it possible to return the conveying line to a normal state swiftly.
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U.S. Classification 198/460.2, 198/594, 198/347.1
International Classification B29C47/92, B29C47/34, B65G47/51
Cooperative Classification B29C2947/9258, B29C2947/92095, B29C2947/92933, B65G47/5131, B29C47/92, B29C2947/9239, B29C47/0009, B29C47/34
European Classification B29C47/34, B29C47/92, B65G47/51A1A1C
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i thought i found working at savers productive and an experinece i would never forget. i learned alot while working thier which would help me now and going forward. iv learnt skills thier that would help me when i get a job in retail.
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Thanks for the pixs, she is huge now! As for having bad days, with all we deal with, we are allowed to have bad days... take it, enjoy it and then be done with it. Make a new list (i know you love lists) and start working on it. Life is not always happy go lucky, even if we like to pretend it is.
She is certainly huge... I cant believe she was 4 pounds when she got here.. Wonder how much she weights now....
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I have been like this since the weekend. My head worked it out already, but my heart is playing hard to please.
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1879 issue only has title Transactions and journal of the proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Scientific, Antiquarian, and Natural History Society
by Holden, Joshua
Topics: England -- Geology, Todmorden (England) -- History, genealogy
Vol 35: The Crocker Land Expedition Under the Auspices of the American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical Society
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Vol 5: Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
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Vol 2241: The Natural History of the Dead Sea and Jordan Valley. 1
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Vol 1910-12: Biennial Report of the State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado
by State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado
Topic: State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado
by Elgee, Frank
Topic: Moors (Wetlands) -- England Yorkshire
Vol 25: Natural history notes on some Beaufort, N. C, fishes, 1910-1911. No. II, Teleostomi
by E W Gudger
by Lones, Thomas East
Topics: Aristotle, Science -- History Greece
Vol 64: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Analysis of Cold Lake Dialect, Chipewyan, In: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History X(II):67-170
by Goddard, P.E.
Topics: chp, Chipewyan, Cold Lake Grammar
Report on the progress and condition of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History for the years 1909 and 1910 ...
by Illinois State Museum of Natural History (Springfield). Library
Vol 25: Natural history notes on some Beaufort, N. C, fishes, 1910-11. No. I. Elasmobranchii-with special reference to utero- gestation
Mexico : its ancient and modern civilisation, history, and political conditions topography and natural resources, industries, and general development
by Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970; Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847-1910
Vol Proceedings 1912: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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