Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1–3. köideBiological Society of Washington, 1882 |
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... close of the meeting the roll of members was called , and the following persons enrolled themselves as members of the several sections : Section I. Messrs . Baker , Birney , Clark , Earll , Gill , Goode , Hoffman , King , Mason ...
... close of the meeting the roll of members was called , and the following persons enrolled themselves as members of the several sections : Section I. Messrs . Baker , Birney , Clark , Earll , Gill , Goode , Hoffman , King , Mason ...
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... Appalachian Moun- tains . << The Saturday Lectures , & c . , pp . 44-59 ; also separate with title page as Saturday Lecture No. 3 , 8vo . , 16 pp . ANIMALS , and at its close mesmerized a canary bird 38 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON .
... Appalachian Moun- tains . << The Saturday Lectures , & c . , pp . 44-59 ; also separate with title page as Saturday Lecture No. 3 , 8vo . , 16 pp . ANIMALS , and at its close mesmerized a canary bird 38 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON .
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Biological Society of Washington. ANIMALS , and at its close mesmerized a canary bird and a fowl . The paper was discussed by Messrs . Schaeffer , Billings , Ellzey , Coues , Wolfley , Riley , True , King , Gilbert and Gihon . FOURTH ...
Biological Society of Washington. ANIMALS , and at its close mesmerized a canary bird and a fowl . The paper was discussed by Messrs . Schaeffer , Billings , Ellzey , Coues , Wolfley , Riley , True , King , Gilbert and Gihon . FOURTH ...
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... close ob- server , practiced in many lands , student of all nature -- especially skilled as a geologist , a botanist , and a zoologist - endowed with a severely judicial mind , honest above all , none like him had ever grappled with the ...
... close ob- server , practiced in many lands , student of all nature -- especially skilled as a geologist , a botanist , and a zoologist - endowed with a severely judicial mind , honest above all , none like him had ever grappled with the ...
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... close fertiliza- tion , " and though some less careful observers in this country— exaggerating the importance of their isolated and often inaccurate observations have opposed his views , the scientific world has been convinced alike by ...
... close fertiliza- tion , " and though some less careful observers in this country— exaggerating the importance of their isolated and often inaccurate observations have opposed his views , the scientific world has been convinced alike by ...
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ACTIVE MEMBERS-Continued American animals April Avenue N. W. Biological Society birds botanical brown C. V. Riley CHARLES coast collected color continent Coues curvirostra Darwin Date of Election exhibited fauna Flora forms fossil FRANK BAKER FREDERICK W fresh-water genera genus geological periods George Vasey Harriott Hedw insects Island John land Le Droit Park LESTER F Linnæus mammals marine MASON MEETING members were present Mesozoic Mexico mollusks natural history naturalists North America occupied the chair Office Orig paleontologists peculiar period plants President occupied Prof Professor Psylla published read a paper realm region remarks RICHARD RATHBUN ROBERT RIDGWAY scientific Smithsonian Institution South species specimens strata Street N. W. THEODORE GILL tion Tuck types U. S. Department U. S. Geological Survey U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum U. S. Navy Virginia W. H. Dall Ward Washington WILLIAM wing Zoology
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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 xxvii - AMENDMENTS This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting of the...
Page 85 - It is for such institutions as that over which you preside so worthily, sir, to do justice to our country, its productions, and its genius. It is the work to which the young men whom you are forming should lay their .hands. We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring them the precious blessing of liberty. Let them spend theirs in showing that it is the great parent of science and virtue; and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free...
Page 87 - Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go, search with curious eye, 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 101 - 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 61 - 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. Legged like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm o...
Page 83 - An Essay Upon the Natural History of Whales, with a Particular Account of the Ambergris Found in the Spermaceti Whale,
Page 53 - Plumbs there are of 3 sorts. The red and white are like our hedge plumbs: but the other, which they call Putchamins, grow as high as a Palmeta. The fruit is like a medler; it is first greene, then yellow, and red when it is ripe: if it be not ripe it will drawe a mans mouth awrie with much torment; but when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an Apricock.
Page 94 - Unis, or the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the United States of America.
Page 36 - He made a Philosophical Theology, wherein he cast off the Old Testament, so that consequently the New would have no foundation.