Transactions - Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, Volumes 1-7Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club., 1880 |
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Page 37 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 5 - V of the Transactions of the Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists' Field Club ; Entomological Report of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, for 1880, from the Editor, Prof.
Page 25 - ... whether in shallow waters, or in abyssal depths (where pressure greatly influences chemical affinities) have not been reproduced to any great extent since the beginning of palaeozoic time...
Page 25 - ... from the earth's surface, after making allowance for the resistance of the air, these missiles would then continue to move in orbits round the sun, crossing at each revolution the point of the earth's track from which they were originally discharged. If this were the case, then doubtless there are now myriads of these projectiles moving through the solar system, the only common feature of their orbits being that they all intersect the earth's track. It will, of course, now and then happen that...
Page 5 - Section 3. Secretary. The Secretary shall be the custodian of all books, papers, documents, and other property of the Section, except money. He shall keep a true record of the proceedings of all meetings of the Section and of the Council, whether assembled or acting under submission.
Page 51 - The nest is usually placed in the most solitary recesses of the marsh, or bog, amidst coarse grass, reeds, and rushes, and generally contains from twelve to sixteen eggs of a dull greenish white. The young are led about by the mother in the same manner as those of the tame duck, but with a superior caution, a cunning and watchful vigilance peculiar...
Page 19 - Thus are the two great organized kingdoms of the creation made to co-operate in the execution of the same design: each ministering to the other, and preserving that due balance in the constitution of the atmosphere, which adapts it to the welfare and activity of every order of beings, and which would soon be destroyed, were the operations of any one of them to be suspended. It is impossible to contemplate so special an adjustment of opposite effects without...
Page 32 - York, and of yellow pine (P. variabilia) in the States south of us. Whilst it is old and decaying or dead trees that most of the larger borers which we have described above attack, this small insect is liable to invade trees that are in full health and vigor, those that are young as well as old...
Page 268 - ... measurements, made with the wedge photometer, of the comparison stars known to have been employed by previous observers ; but when the variable stars themselves were visible, they were incidentally compared with others by estimate, according to the method of Argelander, and were also observed with the wedge. The work will be continued during the coming year, and it is desired to make it include as many as possible of the comparison stars which have been employed by any observer. The list now...
Page 51 - ... those of the tame Duck ; but with a superior caution, a cunning and watchful vigilance peculiar to her situation. The male attaches himself to one female, as among other birds in their native state, and is the guardian and protector of her and her feeble brood. The Mallard is numerous in the rice fields of the Southern States during winter, many of the fields being covered with a few inches of water, and the scattered grains of the former harvest lying in abundance, the Ducks swim about and feed...