[NHCOLL-L:303] Re: Billings (1865) [Palaeozoic Fossils] - "lines"

[Kevin Tuck]

>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:35:04 +0100
>To: wdb at zeppo.geosurv.gov.nf.ca
>From: Kevin Tuck <krt at mailserver.nhm.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: [NHCOLL-L:301] Billings (1865) [Palaeozoic Fossils] - "lines"
>In-Reply-To: <l03130301b43cbf42a1a9@[192.139.24.208]>
>
>Dave,
>
>A line is one twelfth of an inch.
>
>Kevin Tuck
>
>
>At 10:45 AM 10/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>___________________________________________________________________________
>>On Thursday, October 21, 1999 at 17:00:51 NDT, Dave Rohr
>><drohr at sulross.edu> wrote:
>>
>>In Billings' (1865) he often uses a unit of measurement called a "line".  I
>>assume this is some fraction of an inch.  Do you know what it is?
>>
>>Dave
>>___________________________________________________________________________
>>People,
>>
>>I don't know the answer to this question. Could someone help us out? Thanks
>>in advance.
>>
>>All the best,
>>
>>Doug
>>
>>___________________________________________________________________________
>>Mr. W. Douglas Boyce, M.Sc., P.Geo., Provincial Paleontologist,
>>Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy,
>>Geological Survey Division, Regional Geology Section,
>>P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NF, Canada A1B 4J6
>>
>>Phone:	(709) 729-2163
>>Fax:	(709) 729-4270
>>Email:	wdb at zeppo.geosurv.gov.nf.ca


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