Transactions and Proceedings, Том 5

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Society at the Perthshire Natural History Museum., 1914

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Сторінка ccix - The palm-tree waveth high, And fair the myrtle springs ; And, to the Indian maid, The bulbul sweetly sings ; But I dinna see the broom, Wi...
Сторінка 107 - That there is a criminal class distinct from other civilized and criminal men. 2. That this criminal class is marked by peculiar physical and mental characteristics. 3. That the hereditary nature of crime is shown by the family histories of criminals. 4. That the transformation of other nervous disorders with crime in the criminal class also proves the alliance of hereditary crime with other disorders of the mind, such as epilepsy, dipsomania, insanity, etc. 5. That the incurable nature of crime...
Сторінка 147 - Within the last few days a handsome monument from the granite works of Messrs. Macdonald, Field, & Co., Aberdeen, has been erected in the churchyard of Balquhidder, bearing the following inscription: "In memoriam of the Clan Laurin, anciently the allodian inhabitants of Balquhidder and Strathearn, the chief of whom, in the decrepitude of old age, together with his aged and...
Сторінка 41 - The essential deduction from the discovery of segregation was that the characters of living things are dependent on the presence of definite elements or factors, which are treated as units in the processes of Heredity. These factors can thus be recombined in various ways. They act sometimes separately, and sometimes they interact in conjunction with each other, producing their various effects. All this indicates a definiteness and specific order in heredity, and therefore in variation.
Сторінка 84 - the most enlightened Greeks stood nearer, I fear, to the savages of the present day, who regard without respect or affection every human being who has become useless in the race of life or who even impedes the course of human affairs.
Сторінка 24 - SchiehaUion (3547 ft.), the graceful peak which has for so long been dominating the landscape on the left, raises a perfect cone of snowy quartzite to the SE of Kinloch Rannoch. It is described by Geikie as " a noble instance of a cone not yet freed from its parent ridge...
Сторінка 87 - eugenics " would consist in watching for the indications of superior strains or races, and in so favouring them that their progeny shall outnumber and gradually replace that of the old one.
Сторінка 56 - The joy of viewing land, and the hope of being able, in a few days, to range through this long-desired spot, and to resume my wonted pursuits and enjoyments, may be easily imagined. We spent the evening in great mirth, and went to rest early at night, happy to be able to sleep without the noise and motion and other disagreeable attendants of a long sea voyage. I think I may truly reckon this as among the happiest moments of my life.
Сторінка 58 - I spent three weeks in a forest composed of this tree, and day by day could not cease to admire it ; in fact, my words can be only monotonous expressions of this feeling.
Сторінка 9 - In composites are included patterns in which combinations of the arch, loop, and whorl are found in the same print...

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