Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for ...Press of J. Wilson., 1891 |
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Page 4 - The BULLETIN and MEMOIRS are devoted to the publication of original work by the Professors and Assistants of the Museum, of investigations carried on by students and others in the different Laboratories of Natural History, and of work by specialists based upon the Museum Collections and Explorations. The following publications are in preparation : — Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 to 1880, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the US Coast Survey Steamer "Blake,
Page 4 - Commanding. Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the US Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross,
Page 2 - Memoirs (4to) usually appear annually. Each number of the Bulletin and of the Memoirs is sold separately. A price list of the publications of the Museum will be sent on application to the Librarian of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. •r...
Page 33 - State map in field teaching is, for the present, a necessary result of the recent completion of the map. Three, four or five years hence a similar lack of experience will be interpreted by those who understand the advance in the teaching of geography now in progress as the result of the neglect of the opportunities for self-improvement that every teacher is in duty bound to use to the utmost. Fifteen or twenty years hence it will be a reproach to the school in which the younger teachers of that time...
Page 13 - Report for 1896-1897, thus speaks of Lyman's scientific work : " His zoological work began with short papers on ornithological subjects. He subsequently became interested in corals, and finally devoted himself specially to Ophiurans. The first illustrated catalogue of the museum was from his pen, and this important monograph on Ophiurans was followed by numerous papers on the same subject, treating of new species of the group. He wrote the Report on the Ophiurans of the Hassler Expedition, of the...
Page 4 - These publications are issued in numbers at irregular intervals ; one volume of the Bulletin (8vo) and half a volume of the Memoirs (4to) usually appear annually. Each number of the Bulletin and of the Memoirs is sold separately.
Page 5 - Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for 1879—1880.
Page 33 - Lack of experience in the use of the State Map in field teaching is, for the present, a necessary result of the recent completion of the map. Three, four, or five years hence, a similar lack of experience will be interpreted, by those who understand the advance in the teaching of geography now in progress, as the result of the neglect of the opportunities for self-improvement that every teacher is in duty bound to use to the utmost. Fifteen or twenty years hence, it will be a reproach to the school...
Page 4 - XLVIII. of the MEMOIRS, are now in course of publication. The BULLETIN and MEMOIRS are devoted to the publication of original work by the Officers of the Museum, of investigations carried on by students and others in the different Laboratories of Natural History, and of work by specialists based upon the Museum Collections and Explorations. The...