Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1912 |
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... observations on the distribution and habits of the birds of that region . These observations will be made use of by Mr. A. C. Bent , who has undertaken to complete the work on the life histories of North American birds , two volumes of ...
... observations on the distribution and habits of the birds of that region . These observations will be made use of by Mr. A. C. Bent , who has undertaken to complete the work on the life histories of North American birds , two volumes of ...
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... observations established by the Smithsonian Institution about 1850 , a series of meteorological tables was compiled by Dr. Arnold Guyot at the request of Secretary Henry , and the first edition was published in 1852. Though primarily ...
... observations established by the Smithsonian Institution about 1850 , a series of meteorological tables was compiled by Dr. Arnold Guyot at the request of Secretary Henry , and the first edition was published in 1852. Though primarily ...
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... Observations by the spectrobolometric method were continued in order to confirm the view referred to in last year's report that the determinations of the intensity of the solar radiation outside the earth's atmosphere are independent of ...
... Observations by the spectrobolometric method were continued in order to confirm the view referred to in last year's report that the determinations of the intensity of the solar radiation outside the earth's atmosphere are independent of ...
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... observations taken simultaneously at two widely separated stations , where the atmosphere is believed to be specially favorable for such research . The definite determination of the laws governing the apparent variability of the " solar ...
... observations taken simultaneously at two widely separated stations , where the atmosphere is believed to be specially favorable for such research . The definite determination of the laws governing the apparent variability of the " solar ...
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... observations support the belief that this people were in that condition when Columbus visited the Isle of . Pines and that they were survivors of the Guanahatibibes , a cave - dwelling population formerly occupying the whole of Cuba and ...
... observations support the belief that this people were in that condition when Columbus visited the Isle of . Pines and that they were survivors of the Guanahatibibes , a cave - dwelling population formerly occupying the whole of Cuba and ...
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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.