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... for the expression of certain facts , ideas , hypotheses and theories , we should all employ the same symbols whatever our national sympathies . For my own part if an approximate synchronism TERTIARY MAMMAL HORIZONS . 3.
... for the expression of certain facts , ideas , hypotheses and theories , we should all employ the same symbols whatever our national sympathies . For my own part if an approximate synchronism TERTIARY MAMMAL HORIZONS . 3.
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... fact it involves the main question ; the limits of the periods are largely arbitrary and are capable of being settled at once . Al- though the lower Tertiary of America from the base of the Eo- cene to the summit of the Oligocene is ...
... fact it involves the main question ; the limits of the periods are largely arbitrary and are capable of being settled at once . Al- though the lower Tertiary of America from the base of the Eo- cene to the summit of the Oligocene is ...
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... fact there is even at the present moment no consensus of opinion or common usage among palæarctic palæ- ontologists as to the larger divisions of the Tertiary . The Trial Sheets : -As an initial step towards a more ex- act correlation I ...
... fact there is even at the present moment no consensus of opinion or common usage among palæarctic palæ- ontologists as to the larger divisions of the Tertiary . The Trial Sheets : -As an initial step towards a more ex- act correlation I ...
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... fact the correlation can only be established by rel- atively few forms . In the lower Oligocene the faunal relations . suddenly became again much closer between the old and new worlds and they remained close throughout the later ...
... fact the correlation can only be established by rel- atively few forms . In the lower Oligocene the faunal relations . suddenly became again much closer between the old and new worlds and they remained close throughout the later ...
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... fact that neither primitive UNGULATES ( Condylarthra and Amblypoda ) nor EDENTATA have been found in the Thanétien or Cernaysien beds , together with their absence in the Suessonien and later periods in the Palearctic region , lends ...
... fact that neither primitive UNGULATES ( Condylarthra and Amblypoda ) nor EDENTATA have been found in the Thanétien or Cernaysien beds , together with their absence in the Suessonien and later periods in the Palearctic region , lends ...
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Página 74 - Under a wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: " Here he lies, where he longed to he: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Página 6 - too often quote the rugged insistence of Carlyle: " Produce ! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.
Página 3 - IMMEDIATELY on the receipt of a cable announcing the first successful descent of the Barton bathysphere I cabled to Director Beebe for a brief official report to be published in SCIENCE. This is the thirteenth expedition of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society under the direction of William Beebe. It is the fifth year of
Página 1 - average cost of each trip being $9,920. THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS The seventh expedition of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society •was directed to the Galapagos Archipelago, and is known as the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Through the generosity of Mr. Harrison Williams the two hundred and fifty foot steam yacht Noma was chartered for the purpose and left March first on
Página 15 - We cannot see how the differentiation into species came about. Variations of many kinds, .often considerable, we daily witness, but no origin of species. . . . That particular and essential bit of the theory of evolution which is concerned with the origin and nature of species remains utterly mysterious.
Página 74 - Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.