Journal of the Anthropological Institute of New-York ..., Volumen1,Tema 1Westermann & Company, 1871 - 100 páginas |
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Página 5 - Davis, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for the City and County of New York, dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same.
Página 5 - Association on file in my office and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original. In WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my official seal, this 2 day of i'sEAL.: May 1884.
Página 99 - THE Theory of the Arts ; or, Art in Relation to Nature, Civilization, and Man. Comprising an Investigation, Analytical and Critical, into the Origin, Rise, Province, Principles, and Application of each of the Arts. By George Harris, FSA, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of " Civilization Considered as a Science.1' 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 328, 306.— From the Author. Civilization considered as a Science, in Relation to its Essence, its Elements, and its End.
Página 5 - Cattaraugus, dwelling in said county, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said notary, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
Página 4 - Webb, his wife, to me known, and known to me to be the same persons described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and they severally duly acknowledged to me that they executed the same.
Página 67 - In 1845, while digging a canal on one of the rice-plantations on the Savannah River, only a few miles distant from the city of Savannah, at a depth of three feet and a half below the surface of the swamp, the workmen came upon a canoe imbedded in the soil. It answered to the description of what is familiarly known as a dug-out, and had been fashioned from the trunk of a cypress tree.
Página 70 - Nearly all of these ancient boats were formed out of a single oak-stem, hollowed out by blunt tools, probably stone axes, aided by the action of fire ; a few were cut beautifully smooth, evidently with metallic tools. Hence a gradation could be traced from a pattern of extreme rudeness to one showing no small mechanical ingenuity. Two of them...
Página 73 - The trepanning was performed in the centre of the denuded part ; but the four incisions, which circumscribe the removed portion, extend at their extremities to the very limits of the denudation. It is, from this, certain that the separation of the periosteum was produced by the surgeon who performed the operation ; for the denudation, more regular than it could be as the result of an accident, presents exactly, neither more nor less, the dimensions and form necessitated by the operation done upon...
Página 70 - Their canoes are the next work of any consequence; they are generally made of a large pine or poplar, from thirty to forty feet long, and about two broad, with flat bottoms and sides, and both ends alike; the Indians hollow them now with the tools they get from the Europeans, but formerly did it by fire...
Página 14 - Pennsylvania, offered the following resolutions, which were adopted : — Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed to report at the next meeting of the Association upon the following question :— Might not the present system of repeating the same lectures to the same classes during two successive terms be usefully modified by extending the lectures of each chair over two sessions, so as to embrace...