[NHCOLL-L:301] Billings (1865) [Palaeozoic Fossils] - "lines"

[William Douglas Boyce]

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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
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People,

I don't know the answer to this question. Could someone help us out? Thanks
in advance.

All the best,

Doug

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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

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