Bulletin of the United States National MuseumSmithsonian Institution Press, 1882 |
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Page 140 - This work is the fourteenth of a series of papers intended to illustrate the collections of Natural History and Ethnology belonging to the United States and constituting the National Museum, of which the Smithsonian Institution was placed in charge by the act of Congress of August 10, 1846.
Page 57 - III. A. — On the Distribution of the Fishes of the Alleghany Region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species.
Page 33 - The Natural History of Washington Territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of Latitude, being those parts of the final Reports on the Survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad Route, containing the Climate and Physical Geography, with full Catalogues and Descriptions of the Plants and Animals collec.'ed from 18T>'.! to 1857. By JG Cooper, MD, and Dr G. Suckley, USA, Naturalists to the Expedition.
Page 127 - Cope had, however, but a single specimen, in poor condition, and did not notice the falcatiou of the caadal, or, more likely, that fin was not preserved intact. I have, some time since, examined Professor Cope's type, preserved in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, at Philadelphia, and believe it to be identical with M. anisura Raf. The form of the head and body and of the mouth are similar in the two, and the dorsal in both is similarly falcate. This species resembles aureolum in every...
Page 46 - Report on t-bo condition of the sea-fisheries of the south coast of New England in 1871 and 1872.
Page 51 - Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period, found west of the Mississippi River. By Edward D. Cope, AM pp.
Page 77 - Its mate would then attack the seal, and endeavor to drag or drive it as far away from the hole as possible. The attacking raven seemed to strike the seal on the top of the head with its powerful bill, and thus break the tender skull. In two instances I allowed the combat to proceed until the seal was killed, and then drove the ravens away. I found no marks on the seal, except the blows on the head, which had fractured the skull in two places.
Page 7 - Together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the South-Sea.
Page 59 - THE SPORTSMAN'S GAZETTEER AND GENERAL GUIDE. The Game Animals, Birds, and Fishes of North America : their Habits and various methods of Capture, &c., &c.