Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Том 30

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Royal Society of New Zealand., 1898
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.

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Сторінка 20 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Сторінка 20 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Сторінка 104 - I confess that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England ; having courage in the face of his countrymen to assert of some suggested policy, — " This is good for your trade ; this is necessary for your domination : but it will vex a people hard by ; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity : therefore, away with it ! — it is not for you or for me.
Сторінка 19 - On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years...
Сторінка xvii - SEPTEMBER, 1870. Honorary Members. Whereas the rules of the Societies incorporated under the New Zealand Institute Act provide for the election of Honorary Members of such Societies : but inasmuch as such Honorary Members would not thereby become Members of the New Zealand Institute, and whereas it is expedient to make provision for the Election of Honorary Members of the New Zealand Institute, it is hereby declared — 1st.
Сторінка 38 - The Sacs and Foxes in Nebraska formerly required that children should fast for three months after the death of a parent, except that they every day about sunset were allowed to partake of a meal made entirely...
Сторінка 86 - Ponapeans, they used extensively axes and adzes (tola) of excellent workmanship, laboriously ground and polished down from the great central piece of the Tridacna gigas, or popolshell.
Сторінка 57 - They may be, and probably are, the degraded descendants and broken remnants of mighty peoples, and their simplicity is not the result of innocence, but of ignorance and decay.
Сторінка 63 - Jura round which the people used to move ' deasil,' ie, sunwise. In some of the Hebrides the people attributed oracular power to a large, black stone. In the island of Skye, in every district there is to be met with a rude stone consecrated to Gruagach or Apollo. The Rev. Mr. McQueen, of Skye, says that in almost every village the sun, called Grugach, or the Fair-haired, is represented by a rude stone, and he further states that libations of milk were poured on the gruaich stones.
Сторінка 287 - ... parents aid in the duty of incubation, and relieve each other with great regularity ; and so intent are they when sitting on the eggs as to be easily captured. It was in this way two living specimens were obtained for Mr. Stair. They are also captured by the natives with bird-lime or springes, and shot with arrows — the sportsman concealing himself near an open space in which some quantity of the ' soi,' their favourite food, has been placed.

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