Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Band 1Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1843 "Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794. |
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Seite 38 - That the American nations, excepting the polar tribes, are of one race and one species, but of two great families, which resemble each other in* physical, but differ in intellectual character. " 3d. That the cranial remains discovered in the mounds from Peru to Wisconsin, belong to the same race, and probably to the Toltecan family.
Seite 280 - CONRAD, TA Description of a new Genus, and Twenty-nine new Miocene and one Eocene Fossil Shells of the United States.
Seite 187 - Address, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the...
Seite 35 - Resolved, That the thanks of the Society, be presented to the Hon. SA Douglass, for his eloquent and practical address, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publication in the Transactions of the Society.
Seite 279 - Reports of the First, Second, and Third Meetings of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at Philadelphia, in 1840 and 1841, and at Boston in 1842.
Seite 21 - ... of the women remained unaltered; and again, that the most elongated heads were preserved in the largest and finest tombs, shewing that this cranial deformity was a mark of distinction. But to do away with any remaining doubt on this subject, M. D'Orbigny ascertained that the descendants of these ancient Peruvians yet inhabit the land of their ancestors, and bear the name of AYMARAS, which may have been their primitive designation ; and lastly, the modern Aymaras resemble the common Q.uichua or...
Seite 51 - Three Years in the Pacific, including Notices of Brazil, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. By an Officer of the United States Navy.
Seite 87 - ... climber. We have only observed it in a state of nature in three instances, in the oak forests of South Carolina. It ran up the tall trees with great agility, and on one occasion concealed itself in a hole, (which apparently contained its nest,) at least thirty feet from the ground. The specimen we have described was shot from the extreme branches of an oak, in the dusk of the evening, where it was busily engaged among the acorns. It is a rare species in Carolina, but appears to be more common...
Seite 16 - Ovate ; profoundly ventricose ; ribs about 30, little prominent, flat, longitudinally sulcated ; posterior side produced, cuneiform ; rounded at the extremity ; hinge linear in the middle, teeth obsolete, except towards the extremities; within slightly sulcated; crenulations of the margin sulcated in the middle.
Seite 81 - ... the ear. The tail is inclosed in the interfemoral membrane, except the penultimate joint, which is free. The anterior upper fore teeth, instead of being sub-simple, as in the V. carolinensis, or bilobate, as in V.