The American Naturalist, Volume 15

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Essex Institute, 1881

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Halaman 551 - On the Structure and Affinities of the Genus Monticulipora and its Sub-Genera, with Critical Descriptions of Illustrative Species. Illustrated with numerous Engravings on wood and lithographed Plates. Super-royal 8vo, 18s.
Halaman 605 - I often tried, and very nearly succeeded in catching these birds by their legs. Formerly the birds appear to have been even tamer than at present.
Halaman 277 - Annual Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota for 1878.
Halaman 889 - ESSEX INSTITUTE. The glacial phenomena of North America and their relation to the question of man's antiquity in the valley of the Delaware. Abstract. [Salem, 1889.] 8vo, |>p.
Halaman 277 - Stricklandia salteri and S. davidsoni in Georgia. Description of a very large fossil gasteropod, from the State of. Puebla, Mexico.
Halaman 122 - Champlain, such as the Christian world (until this discovery) hath not bin made acquainted with. These beasts are of the bigness of a cowe, their flesh being very good foode, their hides good leather; their fleeces very useful, being a kind of woole, as fine almost as the woole of the beaver; and the salvages do make garments thereof. It is tenne yeares since first the relation of these things came to the eares of the English.
Halaman 154 - FOSSIL MEN AND THEIR MODERN REPRESENTATIVES." An attempt to illustrate the characters and condition of prehistoric men in Europe, by those of the American Races.
Halaman 120 - They travel eight days' journey unto certain plains lying toward the North Sea. In this country there are certain skins, well dressed; and they dress them and paint them where they kill their oxen [buffalo] ; for so they say themselves.
Halaman 121 - The males have very long tails, and a great knob or flock at the end, so that in some respects they resemble the lion, and in some other the camel.
Halaman 988 - On the whole it appears that wherever there are found elaborate arts, abstruse knowledge, complex institutions, these are results of gradual development from an earlier, simpler, and ruder state of life. No stage of civilization comes into existence spontaneously, but grows or is developed out of the stage before it. This is the great principle which every scholar must lay firm hold of, if he intends to understand either the world he lives in or the history of the past.

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