Archives of Science and Transactions of the Orleans County Society of Natural Sciences, Band 1

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J.M. Currier, 1870 - 256 Seiten
 

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Seite 206 - Physiology of Man. Designed to represent the existing state of Physiological Science as applied to the Functions of the Human Body.
Seite 176 - A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. By WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, and of Clinical Medicine, in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College ; Physician-in-chief to the New- York State Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, etc.
Seite 132 - Here then is a whole species, I may say genus, of birds, which Providence seems to have formed for the protection of our fruit and forest trees, from the ravages of vermin; which every day destroy millions of those noxious insects, that would otherwise blast the hopes of the husbandman; and...
Seite 134 - ... have myself carefully examined, those trees which were marked by the woodpecker (for some trees they never touch, perhaps because not penetrated by insects,) were uniformly the most thriving, and seemingly the most productive; many of these were upwards of sixty years old, their trunks completely covered with holes, while the branches were broad, luxuriant, and loaded with fruit. Of decayed trees, more than three-fourths were untouched by the woodpecker.
Seite 50 - ... pleasure. SEC. 2. The constitution and by-laws of said association now in operation shall govern the corporation hereby created until the same shall be regularly altered or repealed, and the present officers of said association shall be officers of this corporation until their respective terms of office shall expire, or be vacated in pursuance thereof.
Seite 50 - Company, and by that name, style, and title shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, complain and defend, in all courts of law and equity, of record and otherwise; may make and have a common seal, and shall have and possess all the rights, powers, franchises, and privileges, incident to or usually possessed by such companies.
Seite 177 - Physician-Accoucheur to Charing Cross Hospital, London ; and Lecturer on Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children in the Hospital School of Medicine.
Seite 207 - Professor of Gynaecology in the Medical Department of Dartmouth College ; Attending Surgeon of the New York State Woman-s Hospital ; President of the New York Academy of Medicine, &c.
Seite 92 - The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park are hereby authorized to erect, establish, conduct and maintain on the Central Park, in said city, a meteorological and astronomical observatory, and a museum of natural history, and a gallery of art, and the buildings therefor, and to provide the necessary instruments, furniture and equipments for the same.
Seite 144 - If there is a race of beings on earth that is protected from destruction by its relations to the general economy of nature that race is that of the birds. Vengeance swift and terrible descends upon those who will not learn that they arc important, nay even necessary to the success of all agricultural pursuits.

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