Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis, Volume 7Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1897 - Science "Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first meeting," in v. 16. |
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... species . Specimens were also exhibited of an apparently undescribed poplar from the mountains of northern Mexico , which he proposed to characterize shortly ; and , for comparison , specimens of the two other species of poplar known to ...
... species . Specimens were also exhibited of an apparently undescribed poplar from the mountains of northern Mexico , which he proposed to characterize shortly ; and , for comparison , specimens of the two other species of poplar known to ...
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... species , most of the synonyms which have been erected as species upon his older described forms . The determination of these synonyms was in no sense a patriotic matter , but proceeded on the hard lines recognized in science as just ...
... species , most of the synonyms which have been erected as species upon his older described forms . The determination of these synonyms was in no sense a patriotic matter , but proceeded on the hard lines recognized in science as just ...
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... species names which should no longer burden our faunal lists . In the matter of other bibliographic references the rule adopted has been to give the volume , page , plate , figure and date reference where the form was first described ...
... species names which should no longer burden our faunal lists . In the matter of other bibliographic references the rule adopted has been to give the volume , page , plate , figure and date reference where the form was first described ...
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... species he mentions the numerous small nodules found over its surface but the figure shows the shell as smooth . The very young shells are nearly as triangular as the well known Unio elegans Lea . In 1885 the writer , without then ...
... species he mentions the numerous small nodules found over its surface but the figure shows the shell as smooth . The very young shells are nearly as triangular as the well known Unio elegans Lea . In 1885 the writer , without then ...
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... species , some of which are sufficiently perfect to disclose undulations on the beaks such as no rubiginosus ever possessed . They rather ally Conrad's shell to those peculiarly marked Mexican and Central American forms that have ...
... species , some of which are sufficiently perfect to disclose undulations on the beaks such as no rubiginosus ever possessed . They rather ally Conrad's shell to those peculiarly marked Mexican and Central American forms that have ...
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2d series abdomen abundant Acad Agapostemon Andrena Andrenidae angle Anodonta Arkansas Calicita CALL ON UNIO Carlinville Castillo de Jagua Ciene Cieneguita Cieneguita S. W. Coelioxys common Conchologia Iconica conidia Conrad County Cresson curve Described electrified equation feet high female fertile soil flexure flowers Francis river freq Gesellschaft Griseb guita H. A. Wheeler Halictus Illinois insects Jour June Lamarck lines of force Little Red river Louis Louisiana margin mesonotum metathorax Monograph of Unio Müller Murex nacre nectar nervures Ouachita river persons present Phila Philos plane plants posterior President Gray Professor proposed for active pubescence punctured Rafinesque red soil Reeve S. W. Branch Saline river savannahs segments Sept shell shrub Société Society species specimens stigma surface synonym synonymy Trans tube umbones uncommon Unio Plate Verein versin waste places Wittsburg woods
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Page xxiv - Société d'Emulation du département des Vosges. EVREUX (Eure). — Société libre d'Agriculture, Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du département de l'Eure.
Page xxxvii - Total Eclipse of the Sun, January 1, 1889. A Report of the Observations made by the Washington University Eclipse Party at Norman, California.
Page xxv - Mémoires de la Société des lettres, des sciences, des Arts, de l'Agriculture et de l'Industrie de Saint-Dizier, tome LX, troisième fascicule.
Page 7 - ... horn-color, smooth, polished, rayed with dark green over the whole disk, the rays often interrupted by the lines of growth, which are numerous, but somewhat indistinct ; umbonal slope rounded, depressed in the male, slightly elevated in the female ; posterior outline emarginate in the female ventral of the siphonal area, dorsal outline rounded ; cardinal teeth double in the left and single in the right valve, short, erect, triangular, solid, smooth, or scarcely crenulate ; plate connecting laterals...
Page lix - Further Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the District of Columbia," which he has so strenuously and misguidedly advocated in the last two Congresses.
Page lxxi - Electrotypes, single cut-out patterns, matrices, keys sent singly, fresh cut flowers, articles of natural history (dried or preserved animals and plants, geological specimens, etc.), tubes of serum and vaccines and pathological objects rendered harmless by their mode of preparation and packing. These articles, except tubes of...
Page 191 - The excess of the number of births over the number of deaths was 63,072, and that was therefore the natural increase of the population of England and Wales in 92 days.
Page 35 - C'olor of the mass, whitish ; tentacular portion of mantle, dark brown, ending in a caruncle; labial palps, large, white, triangular, united at base and partially so over the posterior margin; external ctenidium...
Page 377 - as represented along the Mississippi river is at the base of the Chouteau limestone (limited). At this horizon there is so great a faunal hiatus that there is scarcely a species that is common to the beds on either side. 2. That instead of the so-called Kinderhook containing in its fauna a mingling of Devonian and Carboniferous types there are really two faunas that are perfectly distinct, welldefined and not merging into each other.
Page lxxii - Mr. H. von Schrenk spoke of the respiration of plants, with special reference to the modification of those growing with their roots submerged in water. The lecture was illustrated by a demonstration of the liberation of carbon dioxide in respiration from the roots of an ordinary flowering plant and freshly gathered fungi, and the more usual a-renchyma structures were made clear by the use of lantern slides.