Biographical Memoirs, Band 5

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National Academy of Sciences, 1905
List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926.
 

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Seite 109 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part I. COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
Seite 14 - July ; and the said officers shall be removable by the Board of Regents, whenever, in their judgment, the interests of the Institution require any of the said officers to be changed.
Seite 107 - Radiata, published agreeably to an order of the Legislature, by the commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical survey of the State.
Seite 18 - And the said regents shall make, from the interest of said fund, an appropriation, not exceeding an average of twenty-five thousand dollars annually, for the gradual formation of a library, composed of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge.
Seite 35 - Topographical Sketch of the State of New York ; designed chiefly to show the General Elevations and Depressions of its Surface.
Seite 36 - On the Production of Currents and Sparks of Electricity from Magnetism. Silliman's Am. Jour. Sci., July, 1832, vol. xxii, pp. 403-408. 1832. On the effect of a long and helical wire in increasing the intensity of a galvanic current from a single element.
Seite 13 - That, so soon as the Board of Regents sh'all have selected the said site, they shall cause to be erected a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...
Seite 140 - to consider the location, arrangement, and operation of electric wires in the District of Columbia," etc., to which the attention of Congress is respectfully invited.
Seite 101 - The doctrine of local limitations meets with so few apparent exceptions that we admit it as an axiom in zoology that species strongly resembling each other, derived from widely diverse localities, especially if a continent intervenes, and if no known or plausible means of communication can be assigned, should be assumed as different until their identity can be proved (vide EE Moll. Intr. p. xi). Much study of living specimens must be made before the apparent exceptions can be brought under the rule.
Seite 37 - On the influence of a Spiral Conductor in Increasing the Intensity of Electricity from a Galvanic Arrangement of a Single Pair, &c.

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