The American Naturalist, Volume 24, Part 1

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Essex Institute, 1890
 

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Page 240 - The strange gestures of the little animal strongly excited the attention of the officers, who, with one consent, resolved to suffer it to continue its singular actions unmolested. Its exertions now appeared to be greater, every moment.
Page 128 - He began to play. The sheep and goats, which were following one another towards the mountain, with their heads hanging down, raised them...
Page 49 - Life?' is one to which the answer is approachable ; but I need not say that in a higher sense — higher, because it appeals to higher faculties in our nature — the word suggests something outside...
Page 335 - This Cypress is in the first order of North American trees. Its majestic stature is surprising. On approaching it we are struck with a kind of awe at beholding the stateliness of its trunk, lifting its cumbrous top...
Page 591 - II, triangular. This division includes all specimens which, according to geometrical nomenclature, are in the form of a triangle ; whether the bases or edges be convex, straight or concave. They are without stems and consequently without shoulders, though in some specimens the extreme concavity of the base produces barbs when the arrow shaft is attached.
Page 113 - Accompany slides, in every case, with (real) name and address. Unless of known reputation as a biologist, a reference is respectfully solicited. Reservation : no award will be made unless work of at least ordinary merit is submitted. This offer is made on the first day of January, 1890, and will remain open until the twentieth day of August, 1890. Slides and manuscript will be examined and receipted for as soon as received. The prizes will be adjudged on the first day of October, 1890. These nominal...
Page 26 - ... Parade, because he always attended regularly the military parades at the Tuileries. A taste for music was probably the cause of this fancy. He always stood by, and marched with the band ; and at night went to the Ope'ra...
Page 237 - Cheshire ; after some time, they sat down on the grass, and began to sing an anthem. The field in which they sat was terminated at one extremity by a wood, out of which, as they were singing, they observed a hare to pass, with great swiftness, towards the place where they were sitting, and to ship...
Page 598 - October i, at i pm, for the election of sectional officers, and the despatch of business usually brought before that body. On this occasion there will be presented the report of the council, embodying their proceedings during the past year. The general committee will meet afterwards by adjournment.
Page 499 - College. The Laboratory is located on the coast at Wood's Holl, Mass., near the Laboratories of the United States Fish Commission. The building consists of two stories — the lower for the use of teachers and students receiving instruction, the upper exclusively for investigators.

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