Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1912 |
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... Indians North of Mexico ; part 1 of the Handbook of American Indian Languages ; Antiquities of Central and Southeastern Mis- sissippi Valley ; Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park , and bulletins on other ethnological subjects ...
... Indians North of Mexico ; part 1 of the Handbook of American Indian Languages ; Antiquities of Central and Southeastern Mis- sissippi Valley ; Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park , and bulletins on other ethnological subjects ...
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... Indians , owing to their advance in civilization , and for that reason the researches are being pressed with all possible speed while knowledge of primitive conditions is still available . The Indians form one of the great races of ...
... Indians , owing to their advance in civilization , and for that reason the researches are being pressed with all possible speed while knowledge of primitive conditions is still available . The Indians form one of the great races of ...
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... Indians of the Algonquian family ; the Chippewa Indians , especially with reference to their music ; the Osage Indians , now in Oklahoma , and the Iroquois in New York . A study of the past and present population of the Indians , with ...
... Indians of the Algonquian family ; the Chippewa Indians , especially with reference to their music ; the Osage Indians , now in Oklahoma , and the Iroquois in New York . A study of the past and present population of the Indians , with ...
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... Indians of North America were acquired by gift and purchase . The final shipments from the Smithsonian African expedition , which arrived in the early part of the year , contained several thousand specimens of mammals , birds , reptiles ...
... Indians of North America were acquired by gift and purchase . The final shipments from the Smithsonian African expedition , which arrived in the early part of the year , contained several thousand specimens of mammals , birds , reptiles ...
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... Indian Museum at Calcutta ; many isopods from several French explorations , including the Charcot expedition to the Antarctic Ocean , were obtained from the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris ; and an inter- esting series of recent ...
... Indian Museum at Calcutta ; many isopods from several French explorations , including the Charcot expedition to the Antarctic Ocean , were obtained from the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris ; and an inter- esting series of recent ...
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Сторінка 509 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Сторінка 513 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram : once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Сторінка 507 - And the LORD was with Judah ; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Сторінка 380 - THE prolongation of life : the restitution of youth in some degree : the retardation of age : the curing of diseases counted incurable : the mitigation of pain : more easy and less loathsome purgings : the increasing of strength and activity : the increasing of ability to suffer torture or pain...
Сторінка 377 - ... all species have been produced by the development of varieties from common stocks, by the conversion of these, first into permanent races and then into new species, by the process of natural selection, which process is essentially identical with that artificial selection by which man has originated the races of domestic animals — the struggle for existence taking the place of man, and exerting, in the case of natural selection, that selective action which he performs in artificial selection.
Сторінка 509 - And the young men that were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brethren and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred and left them without the camp of Israel.
Сторінка 513 - And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-gaber. 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Сторінка 319 - Magoary rice mills, near Para, these ants once pierced the embankment of a large reservoir : the great body of water which it contained escaped before the damage could be repaired. In the Botanic Gardens, at Para, an enterprising French gardener tried all he could think of to extirpate the Saiiba.
Сторінка 310 - Wherever they move, the whole animal world is set in commotion, and every creature tries to get out of their way. But it is especially the various tribes of wingless insects that have cause for fear, such as heavy-bodied spiders, ants of other species, maggots, caterpillars, larvae of cockroaches and so forth, all of which live under fallen leaves, or in decaying wood.
Сторінка 366 - Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.