Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume 4

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1850
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
 

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Page 2 - Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Page 40 - Dodo and its Kindred; or the History, Affinities and Osteology of the Dodo. Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon.
Page 83 - Resolved, That the thanks of this society be and they are hereby tendered to the Hon.
Page 239 - ... have the least-sized brain of any Caucasian nation, excepting the Hindoos ; for the very few Semitic heads will hardly permit them to be admitted into the comparison. " 5. The Negro brain is nine cubic inches less than the Teutonic, and three cubic inches larger than the ancient Egyptian. "6. The largest brain in the series is that of a Dutch gentleman, and gives 114 cubic inches ; the smallest head is an old Peruvian, of 58 cubic inches ; and the difference between these two extremes is no less...
Page 26 - Total length of skin, from tip of bill to end of tail, about 14 inches, wings В inches, tail 7 inches. HAB. Guayaquil, South America. The specimen now described belongs to the Rivoli collection, and is labelled,
Page 239 - American group of races, of which the highe&t in the scale are the Toltecan nations, the lowest the Fuegians. Nor does this view conflict with the general principle, that all these nations and tribes have had, as I have elsewhere expressed it, a common origin...
Page 259 - PORTRAITS OF RARE AND CURIOUS BIRDS WITH THEIR DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE MENAGERY OF OSTERLY PARK, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols.
Page 205 - Survey, on an application of the Galvanic Circuit to an Astronomical Clock and Telegraph Register, in determining local differences of Longitude, and in astronomical observations generally.
Page 242 - I am inclined to think, are of the character of algous vegetation. Their movement is no objection to this opinion, for much higher conferva-, as the Oscillatorias, are endowed with inherent power of movement, not very unlike that of the Vibrio, and indeed the movement of the latter appears to belong only to one stage of its existence.
Page 32 - ... subsidence in the Pacific, as indicated by the distribution of coral islands. Ibid., pp. 131-135.

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