Proceedings, Volume 46

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Page lxxix - Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due...
Page 7 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 15 - ... merely the print of a cleft foot may conclude that the animal which left this impression ruminated, and this conclusion is as certain as any other in physics or morals. This footprint alone, then, yields to him who observes it, the form of the teeth, the form of the jaws, the form of the...
Page 325 - Those who had seen the Bear made up the Bear society ; those to whom the Thunder or Water beings had come formed the Thunder or the Pebble society. The membership came from every kinship group in the tribe, blood relationship was ignored, the bond of union being a common right in a common vision. These brotherhoods gradually developed a classified membership with initiatory rites, rituals, and officials set apart to conduct the ceremonials.
Page 361 - Lenape, had relatives of like culture extending along the coast from Carolina to Maine and from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the head of the Great Lakes. They had neighbors of other stocks, all occupying about the same simple level of neolithic culture. Researches long continued in the whole vast territory occupied have developed no definite trace of other people or other conditions of culture. No one can say how long they had been here or whence they came, but their coming was doubtless long...
Page 1 - Month. 1848," as entered in his journal. He brought away careful drawings, measurements and descriptions of several large birds, as well as of the skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus. His drawing of the fossil reptile bears the explanatory legend in Quaker style : " two of the sclerotic plates look at the eye — thee will see these in it.
Page xx - Science," for the purpose of receiving, purchasing, holding and conveying real and personal property, which It now is, or hereafter may be, possessed of, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the restrictions, duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now or hereafter may be in force and applicable to such corporations.
Page 322 - Omahas, which has been handed down from generations, and which gives a rapid history of the people from the time when " they opened their eyes and beheld the day " to the completed organization of the tribe, we are told: "The people felt themselves weak and poor.
Page 278 - Certain radicles seem to have specific properties when introduced into the molecule, modifying the toxic value of the same. The number of hydroxyl (OH) groups present In the molecule seems in itself to have little influence on the toxic action of the phenol. The introduction of CH3 groups into the benzene nucleus increases the toxicity to a considerable but somewhat variable degree. The introduction of the isopropyl group (C3 H7) into the cresoles Increases the toxic value of these substances.
Page 194 - Appalachian trough buried under fifteen hundred feet of sediments, the explorer can readily identify this great coal bed, not only from its associated rocks but from its stratigraphical elements as well, and often from even the fracture of the coal.

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