Annals & Magazine of Natural History

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Taylor & Francis, Limited, 1870
 

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Seite vii - And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed. But scatter round ten thousand forms minute Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock Or rifted oak or cavern deep : the Naiads too Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth...
Seite 488 - THE LIFTED AND SUBSIDED ROCKS OF AMERICA, -with their Influence on the Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Land Currents, and the Distribution of Races. By George Catlin.
Seite 490 - A few have a strike northwest and southeast, but are generally very narrow, and break off from the northeast and southwest lodes, are very rich for a time and then 'pinch' out. It would seem, therefore, quite possible that the northeast and southwest veins took the lines of cleavage in that direction as lines of greatest weakness, and that the northwest and southeast lines cross the other set, and that a portion of the mineral material might accumulate in that cleavage fissure. I merely throw out...
Seite 41 - Structures which are genetically related, in so far as they have a single representative in a common ancestor, may be called homogenous.
Seite 47 - ... homogeny," depending simply on the inheritance of a common part ; the other, proposed to be called
Seite 196 - Hook), which I have watched very closely in my greenhouse this winter. Several days before the stamens burst through the involucre, which closely invests them, the pistil with its ovarium on the long pedicel has protruded itself beyond, exposed its stigmatic surfaces, and received the pollen from the neighboring flowers.
Seite 44 - When identical or nearly similar forces, or environments, act on two or more parts of an organism which are exactly or nearly alike, the resulting modifications* of the various parts will be exactly or nearly alike. Further, if, instead of similar parts in the same organism, we suppose the same forces to act on parts in two organisms, which parts are exactly or nearly alike and sometimes homogenetic, the resulting correspondences called forth in the several parts in the two organisms will be nearly...
Seite 40 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
Seite 503 - Prof. Cope made some observations on the Reptilia of the Triassic formations of the Atlantic region of the United States. He observed that thirteen species had been described and referred to ten genera. None of these had been referred by their...
Seite 263 - ... the focus of the objective to be tested with the microscope properly adjusted so that the axes of the two objectives may be coincident, and their corrections suitably manipulated, it is practicable to compare known delusions with suspected phenomena. It was then observed (by means of such appliances) that the aberration developed by high-power eyepieces and a lengthened tube followed a peculiar law. A. A lengthened tube increased aberration faster than it gained power (roughly, the aberration...

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