Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1–3. köideBiological Society of Washington, 1882 |
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... forms like ancient ones might have descended from them . The investigators in various departments of biology had gradually deduced generaliza- tions which all tended in a similar direction . The taxologists , in their very nomenclature ...
... forms like ancient ones might have descended from them . The investigators in various departments of biology had gradually deduced generaliza- tions which all tended in a similar direction . The taxologists , in their very nomenclature ...
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... forms which had descended , with modifications , from countless antecedent generations . With the successive changes in temperature and other conditions ensuing in the ever - changing world , the animals and plants which peopled it were ...
... forms which had descended , with modifications , from countless antecedent generations . With the successive changes in temperature and other conditions ensuing in the ever - changing world , the animals and plants which peopled it were ...
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... forms , with modifica tions incident to individuality ; the sums of the divergencies , small in themselves , became large in the aggregate , became enormous in time . The increasing beings , crowding upon each other , invading each ...
... forms , with modifica tions incident to individuality ; the sums of the divergencies , small in themselves , became large in the aggregate , became enormous in time . The increasing beings , crowding upon each other , invading each ...
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... forms forbade the idea of their derivation from a common parentage . The universal consensus of mankind maintained till the sixteenth century the doctrine that the earth was flat ; that the sun and other planets circled round the earth ...
... forms forbade the idea of their derivation from a common parentage . The universal consensus of mankind maintained till the sixteenth century the doctrine that the earth was flat ; that the sun and other planets circled round the earth ...
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... forms of a generalized character intermediate between still earlier ones and later widely separated forms ; and that of such there were very few . The graves of the distant past gave up their dead , and the ossu- aries of our own far ...
... forms of a generalized character intermediate between still earlier ones and later widely separated forms ; and that of such there were very few . The graves of the distant past gave up their dead , and the ossu- aries of our own far ...
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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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