Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Bände 4-6Biological Society of Washington, 1888 |
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abyssal Academy acquired characters Amer animals Biological Society birds botany C. D. Walcott cells chair collection Columbian University Conchology Curtice Darwin deep sea Discussed by Dr Discussed by Messrs evolution exhibited exogenous expedition explorations F. A. Lucas F. H. Knowlton F. W. True fact fauna fishes Flora forms fossil FRANK BAKER genus geological GEORGE VASEY germ germ-plasm Gill Hart Merriam heredity HUNDRED influence insects Journal Lamarck lectures LESTER F Maclure MEETING members present Mitchill mollusks Museum natural history natural selection naturalists North America organic paleontology paper entitled persons present Philadelphia Philosophical Society plants presented a communication President Proc Prof Professor published R. E. C. STEARNS Rafinesque read a paper reproductive RICHARD RATHBUN scientific shells Silliman species specimens Stejneger T. H. Bean Theobald Smith Theodore Gill theory tion U. S. Nat United variation vegetable W. H. Dall Ward Weismann William William Maclure York
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Seite 31 - Letters on the Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of New York (New York, 1822), a work of originality and merit.
Seite 94 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 27 - When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inquire from what unfriendly causes it has proceeded, that the other countries of Europe and quarters of the earth shall not have inscribed any name in the roll of poets. But neither has America produced "one able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single...
Seite 12 - He showed us a glass machine for exhibiting the circulation of the blood in the arteries and veins of the human body. The circulation is exhibited by the passing of a red fluid from a reservoir into numerous capillary tubes of glass, ramified in every direction, and then returning in similar tubes to the reservoir, which was done with great velocity, without any power to act visibly upon the fluid, and had the appearance of perpetual motion.
Seite 38 - The truth is that Species and perhaps Genera also, are forming in organized beings by gradual deviations of shapes, forms and organs, taking place in the lapse of time. There is a tendency to deviations and mutations through plants and animals by gradual steps at remote irregular periods.
Seite 11 - Gerry introduced me, he rose from his chair, took me by the hand, expressed his joy at seeing me, welcomed me to the city, and begged me to seat myself close to him. His voice was low, but his countenance open, frank, and pleasing.
Seite 27 - As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.* As in philosophy and war, so in government.
Seite 47 - Yours is one of the few lives precious to mankind, and for the continuance of which every thinking man is solicitous. Bigots may be an exception. What an effort, my dear Sir, of bigotry in politics and religion have we gone through ! The barbarians really flattered themselves they should be able to bring back the times of Vandalism, when ignorance put everything into the hands of power and priestcraft. All advances in science were proscribed as innovations. They pretended to praise and...
Seite 47 - Vandalism, when ignorance put everything into the hands of power and priestcraft. All advances in science were proscribed as innovations. They pretended to praise and encourage education, but it was to be the education of our ancestors. We were to look backwards, not forwards, for improvement ; the President...
Seite 19 - This power of points to throw off the electrical fire, was first communicated to me by my ingenious friend Mr Thomas Hopkinson, since deceased, whose virtue and integrity, in every station of life, public and private, will ever make his Memory dear to those who knew him, and knew how to value him.