Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1912 |
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... knowledge of the production of light by living organ- isms , by F. Alex . McDermott ... 345 e Organic evolution : Darwinian and de Vriesian , by N. C. Macnamara . 363 • Magnalia naturæ : or the greater problems of biology , by D'Arcy ...
... knowledge of the production of light by living organ- isms , by F. Alex . McDermott ... 345 e Organic evolution : Darwinian and de Vriesian , by N. C. Macnamara . 363 • Magnalia naturæ : or the greater problems of biology , by D'Arcy ...
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... the Institution , teachers , and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge . These memoirs relate chiefly to the calendar year 1911 . IX THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . JUNE 30 , 1911 . Presiding REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
... the Institution , teachers , and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge . These memoirs relate chiefly to the calendar year 1911 . IX THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . JUNE 30 , 1911 . Presiding REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
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... knowledge of the extent of these differences had been acquired . It also seemed important to determine exactly the geographical dis- tribution of the various organisms inhabiting the Isthmus , which is one of the routes by which the ...
... knowledge of the extent of these differences had been acquired . It also seemed important to determine exactly the geographical dis- tribution of the various organisms inhabiting the Isthmus , which is one of the routes by which the ...
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... far - reaching social differentiations , indi- cating long occupancy , a good knowledge of the people REPORT OF THE SECRETARY . 7 Bird studies in the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea Anthropological researches in Peru.
... far - reaching social differentiations , indi- cating long occupancy , a good knowledge of the people REPORT OF THE SECRETARY . 7 Bird studies in the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea Anthropological researches in Peru.
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... knowledge of solar radiation and the influence of the terrestrial atmosphere upon it have been promoted . Arrangements have been made whereby the Abbot pyrheliometer is now in use in widely separated localities . There is one in the ...
... knowledge of solar radiation and the influence of the terrestrial atmosphere upon it have been promoted . Arrangements have been made whereby the Abbot pyrheliometer is now in use in widely separated localities . There is one in the ...
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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.