Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volumen11

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Boston Society of Natural History., 1868
 

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Página 195 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part I. COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
Página 410 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Página 280 - ... we might call to mind an occasional monstrosity in which the thumb and great toe are each provided with three joints, and thus made to conform with the other digits. Lastly, we might call to mind the fact that in their mode of ossification, the metatarsal and metacarpal bones of the two parts in question agree with the phalanges, that is, in having the proximal epiphysis the last to unite with the shaft instead of the distal. Still the preponderance of facts is the other way, and, if we adopt...
Página 410 - Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are shorn, which come up from the washing...
Página 188 - The doctrine of local limitations meets with so few apparent exceptions that we admit it as an axiom in zoology that species strongly resembling each other, derived from widely diverse localities, especially if a continent intervenes, and if no known or plausible means of communication can be assigned, should be assumed as different until their identity can be proved (vide EE Moll. Intr. p. xi). Much study of living specimens must be made before the apparent exceptions can be brought under the rule.
Página 423 - There is also a second or other variety of Angora, or shawl, goat besides those generally described. This goat has an unchanging outer cover of long, coarse hair, between the roots of which comes in winter an undercoat of downy wool that is naturally thrown off in spring or is carefully combed out for use. A remarkably fine species of this breed exists throughout the area to which the white-haired goat is limited...
Página 15 - MAGAZINE for November last. As summed up by Mr. Shaler, the second hypothesis supposes that the earth "consists of an immense solid nucleus, a hardened outer crust, and an intermediate region of comparatively slight depth, in an imperfect state of igneous fusion.
Página 232 - Colorado. A Summer Trip. 7s. 6d. After the War : a Southern Tour extending from May, 1865, to May, 1866. By Whitlaw Reid, Librarian to the House of Representatives. Illustrated. Post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. By Colonel RB Marcy, USA, Author of
Página 229 - Condition and Doings of the Boston Society of Natural History, as exhibited by the Annual Reports of the Custodian, Treasurer, Librarian, and Curators. May, 1865.
Página 277 - And, doubtless, unto thee is given A life that bears immortal fruit In such great offices as suit The full-grown energies of heaven.

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