The American Naturalist, Volumul 11Essex Institute, 1877 |
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... hundred and twenty grains or about twelve hundred times the weight of the flea which drags it . Whether these figures be precisely accurate or not , it is a very remarkable effort for so small a creature . Vigorous speci- mens are said ...
... hundred and twenty grains or about twelve hundred times the weight of the flea which drags it . Whether these figures be precisely accurate or not , it is a very remarkable effort for so small a creature . Vigorous speci- mens are said ...
Pagina 15
... hundred feet from the base of the hill , that the Moa Cave , as we named it , was found . Soon after arriving at Queens- town we heard of the existence of a cave on that portion of the hill and , procuring a guide , we visited it . This ...
... hundred feet from the base of the hill , that the Moa Cave , as we named it , was found . Soon after arriving at Queens- town we heard of the existence of a cave on that portion of the hill and , procuring a guide , we visited it . This ...
Pagina 16
... hundred feet high , and had evi- dently been formed by the falling away of a portion of the hill- side , which is composed of mica - schist . That the bones were introduced from above , either by being washed in , or by the birds ...
... hundred feet high , and had evi- dently been formed by the falling away of a portion of the hill- side , which is composed of mica - schist . That the bones were introduced from above , either by being washed in , or by the birds ...
Pagina 17
... hundred square feet , three and one half tons of moa bones were obtained , for the Otago Museum . As a great number of bones were too much decayed to be collected , this amount indicates only about one half of the total quantity ...
... hundred square feet , three and one half tons of moa bones were obtained , for the Otago Museum . As a great number of bones were too much decayed to be collected , this amount indicates only about one half of the total quantity ...
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... hundred miles to Eastern Kansas and Missouri . Though the swarm was first observed at some distance north of Denver , Colorado , it was then on its way from the north , and may have come from some part of Wyom- ing two or three hundred ...
... hundred miles to Eastern Kansas and Missouri . Though the swarm was first observed at some distance north of Denver , Colorado , it was then on its way from the north , and may have come from some part of Wyom- ing two or three hundred ...
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Pagina 219 - I do not wish to particularise, but I dare say many of you, seeking knowledge, or in the laudable desire to employ a holiday usefully, have visited some great natural history museum. You have walked through a quarter of a mile of animals, more or less well stuffed, with their long names written out underneath them; and, unless your experience is very different from that of most people, the upshot of it all is that you leave that splendid pile with sore feet, a bad headache, and a general idea that...
Pagina 276 - The people are somewhat white, they wear apparel, and lie in beds, their weapons are bows, they have emeralds and other jewels, although they esteem none so much ,as turquoises, wherewith they adorn the walls of the porches of their houses, and their apparel and vessels, and they use them instead of money through all the country.
Pagina 467 - I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved ; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.
Pagina 214 - In an Englishman's mouth it generally means that by which we get pudding or praise, or both. I have no doubt that is one meaning of the word utility, but it by no means includes all I mean by utility. I think that knowledge of every kind is useful in proportion as it tends to give people right ideas, which are essential to the foundation of right practice, and to remove wrong ideas, which are the no less essential foundations and fertile mothers of every description of error in practice. And inasmuch...
Pagina 719 - Darwin as to the display of color and ornaments by the male birds, there is a total absence of any evidence that the females admire or even notice this display. The hen, the turkey, and the pea-fowl, go on feeding while the male is displaying his finery, and there is reason to believe that it is his persistency and energy rather than his beauty which wins the day.
Pagina 715 - ... colour-variations either to one sex only or to both sexes ; the difference depending on some unknown law, and not being due to natural selection. I have long held this portion of Mr. Darwin's theory to be erroneous ; and have argued that the primary cause of sexual diversity of colour was the need of protection, repressing in the female those bright colours which are normally produced in both sexes by general laws ; and I have attempted to explain many of the more difficult cases on this principle....
Pagina 9 - After much consideration, and with assuredly no bias against Mr. Darwin's views, it is our clear conviction that, as the evidence stands, it is not absolutely proven that a group of animals, having all the characters exhibited by species in Nature, has ever been originated by selection, whether artificial or natural.
Pagina 446 - The International Exhibition to be held at Paris in 1878 will furnish such an occasion, and it is proposed to invite to that end governmental geological surveys, learned societies and private individuals throughout the world, to send to Paris such collections as will make the geological department of that exhibition as complete as possible. In order to take advantage of the collections which may thus be brought together, it is moreover proposed to convoke an International...
Pagina 467 - ... circumstances, and the blank intervals between the successive stages as having been of vast duration. But we shall be able to gauge with some security the duration of these intervals by a comparison of the preceding and succeeding organic forms. We must be cautious in attempting to correlate as strictly contemporaneous two formations, which include few identical species, by the general succession of their forms of life.
Pagina 114 - The Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper, being the report of proceedings of a conference of the Governors of several Western States and Territories, together with several other gentlemen, held at Omaha, Nebr., on the 25th and 26th days of October, 1876, to consider the locust problem ; also a summary of the best means now known for counteracting the evil.