Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1912 |
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... species of fossils collected from it , but even there the conditions had not been favorable for the presence and preserva- tion of examples of much of the life that , from what was known of older faunas and the advanced stage of ...
... species of fossils collected from it , but even there the conditions had not been favorable for the presence and preserva- tion of examples of much of the life that , from what was known of older faunas and the advanced stage of ...
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... species of animals and plants in the fresh - water streams on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus were different from those on the Pacific side , no defi- nite knowledge of the extent of these differences had been acquired . It also seemed ...
... species of animals and plants in the fresh - water streams on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus were different from those on the Pacific side , no defi- nite knowledge of the extent of these differences had been acquired . It also seemed ...
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... species of mammals , birds , and reptiles , about 20 species being new to the park . Among the important additions to the collections I may mention a pair of northern fur seals from Alaska , a hippopotamus , an East Af- rican buffalo ...
... species of mammals , birds , and reptiles , about 20 species being new to the park . Among the important additions to the collections I may mention a pair of northern fur seals from Alaska , a hippopotamus , an East Af- rican buffalo ...
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... species not before represented in the collection . Early in its history the park exhibited for two years a hippopotamus which had been received as a loan . Since that was withdrawn the species has not been represented in the collection ...
... species not before represented in the collection . Early in its history the park exhibited for two years a hippopotamus which had been received as a loan . Since that was withdrawn the species has not been represented in the collection ...
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... Species of East African Mammals . By Edmund Heller . Published July 22 , 1910. Octavo . Pages 5 , with three plates . Volume 56 , No. 9 . 1943. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . Cover and preliminary pages for volume 51. Octavo ...
... Species of East African Mammals . By Edmund Heller . Published July 22 , 1910. Octavo . Pages 5 , with three plates . Volume 56 , No. 9 . 1943. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . Cover and preliminary pages for volume 51. Octavo ...
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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.
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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.