Report of the Director of the State Museum and Science Department, Issue 187University of the State of New York, 1916 |
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adults Albany altitude appear Archeology axillary inframarginal bank beds beetle Botanist Botany Breed hill Buck mountain Champlain valley channel Clarke collection cover plates Crown Point deposits Details of holotype diameter Economic Geology embayment Entomology evidence excavated exhibit face feet figure floor plates food groove fossils gall genus glacial lake gravel gum mounting hall holotype Hudson valley Indian inner insects interradius Iroquois July June Lake Albany larvae layer limestone Linn lower marginal material medusa molding sand moraine moth mountain Museum occur oral surface outer Paleontology Paleozoic paxillae pedicel Pittsford podial openings Port Henry portion present Putnam's creek quadrangle Quartz radial region Report ridge river rock Schuchert seen shale shore line shown shows side slides slope species specimens spinelets spines stone Sugar hill terrace upper Woodworth York York State Museum Zoology
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Page 9 - Students receive from the state library staff, in return for services rendered to the library during their two years' course, careful training in library economy, bibliography, cataloguing, classification and other duties of professional librarianship. 5 State museum — including all scientific specimens and collections, works of art, objects of historic interest and similar property appropriate to a general museum, if owned by the state and not placed in other custody by a specific law...
Page 52 - General. The work of the office has been materially aided as in past years, by the identification of a number of species through the courtesy of Dr LO Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, and his associates.
Page 124 - U. pulchella (Billings), to which this species is most closely allied, the axillary inframarginals have . their long axes placed radially; the first floor plates have radial diameters but twice as great as those of the following floor plates; and the inframarginals are placed with their long axes perpendicular to the ray. Other differences will be noted in the more detailed description and comparison which follow. Raymond's figure (loc. cit. ) and those here given are of the holotype. The specimen...
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