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... , the censures of foes , should all be enrolled in their proper places as representing the ripples and counter - ripples in the sea of thought , produced by the weighty ideas which dropped from 92 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON .
... , the censures of foes , should all be enrolled in their proper places as representing the ripples and counter - ripples in the sea of thought , produced by the weighty ideas which dropped from 92 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON .
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... representing it as somewhat similar to that in which a man climbs . The movement is not a spiral one . The note was commented upon by Messrs . Baker , Schaeffer , Gill , Mason , and Taylor . Prof. C. V. Riley made a communication upon ...
... representing it as somewhat similar to that in which a man climbs . The movement is not a spiral one . The note was commented upon by Messrs . Baker , Schaeffer , Gill , Mason , and Taylor . Prof. C. V. Riley made a communication upon ...
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... represented by two species , one of which , II . olidus , is confined to the western shore of Alaska , being most abundant to the northward . H. pretiosus is known only from the Gulf of Alaska . H. olidus spawns in fresh - water ponds ...
... represented by two species , one of which , II . olidus , is confined to the western shore of Alaska , being most abundant to the northward . H. pretiosus is known only from the Gulf of Alaska . H. olidus spawns in fresh - water ponds ...
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... represented by but one known species , lately described by Mr. Garman . tomical characteristics are unknown , but will probably be found to be nearly the same as in the succeeding group , Opistharthri . It is distinguished from all ...
... represented by but one known species , lately described by Mr. Garman . tomical characteristics are unknown , but will probably be found to be nearly the same as in the succeeding group , Opistharthri . It is distinguished from all ...
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... represented by the well - known " Port Jackson Shark , " form the only existing family . ( 4. ) The Anarthri are sharks with the palato - quadrate apparatus not articulated directly with the skull , the vertebral column vari- able but ...
... represented by the well - known " Port Jackson Shark , " form the only existing family . ( 4. ) The Anarthri are sharks with the palato - quadrate apparatus not articulated directly with the skull , the vertebral column vari- able but ...
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ACTIVE MEMBERS-Continued Agriculture American animals April Avenue N. W. BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY birds botanical botanist brown C. V. Riley CHARLES Chickering coast collected color committee Coues Curator curvirostra Darwin Date of Election facts fauna flora forms fossil FRANK BAKER FREDERICK W fresh-water genera genus geological periods George Vasey insects Island JOHN land Le Droit Park LESTER F Linnæus marine MEETING members were present Messrs Mexico mollusks natural history naturalists North America occupied the chair Office Orig paleontologists period philosophy plants President occupied Prof Professor Psylla published read a paper realm region remarks RICHARD RATHBUN ROBERT RIDGWAY Saturday Lectures scientific Smithsonian Institution species specimens Street N. W. Taylor THEODORE GILL tion Tuck types U. S. Department U. S. Fish Commission U. S. Geological Survey U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum U. S. Navy W. H. Dall Ward WILLIAM wing Zoology
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Page 23 - AMENDMENTS This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting of the...
Page 92 - Within himself, from more to more ; Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page xxxi - Society may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting, after at least four weeks
Page 89 - Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go, search with curious eyes for horned frogs; 'Mid the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs ; Or, where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy theme.
Page 63 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 53 - ... most are gray. A small beast they have, they call Assapanick but we call them flying squirrels, because spreading their legs, and so stretching the largenesse of their skins that they have bin seene to fly 30 or 40 yards. An Opassom hath a head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.
Page 103 - The wisdom of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works : those highly magnify him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures, return the duty of a devout and learned admiration.
Page 63 - ... out clear. Casting up his eyes, he saw a monstrous bird soaring aloft in the air; and, of a sudden, all the ducks and geese (there being then a great many) dived under water, nothing of them appearing but their heads. Mr. Hilton, having made readie his piece, shot and brought her down to the ground. How he disposed of her, I know not; but had he taken her alive, and sent her over into England, neither Bartholomew nor Sturbridge Fair could have produced such another sight.
Page 36 - notwithstanding his great skill in mathematics, he had strange thoughts of the Scripture, always undervalued the old story of the Creation of the World, and could never believe that trite position,
Page 87 - Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on a footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.