Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Band 61

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Smithsonian Institution, 1914
 

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Seite 52 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of his Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. 42s. CUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 55 - Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater ; with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros.
Seite 53 - Baldwin's African Hunting. African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c., from 1852 to 1860. By WILLIAM CHARLES BALDWIN, F.RG.S.
Seite 26 - Hathrometra prolixa; the brachials are very strongly overlapping with produced and very highly spinous distal edges ; syzygies occur between the third and fourth brachials, again between the ninth and tenth and fourteenth and fifteenth, and distally at intervals of three (often four) oblique muscular articulations.
Seite 5 - ... in Japan, in America, the South Sea Islands and elsewhere, have for the most part such an extraordinary resemblance to one another in point of form, that one might almost suppose the whole of them to have been the production of the same maker. The reason of this is very obvious, namely, that their form is that which first and most naturally suggests itself to the human mind.
Seite 54 - Records of Big Game, containing an account of their distribution, descriptions of species, lengths, and weights, measurements of horns, and field notes for the use of Sportsmen and Naturalists.
Seite 46 - ... and beside it I saw the rhino standing with drooping head. It had been fatally hit, and if undisturbed would probably never have moved from where it was standing; and we finished it off forthwith. It was a cow, and before dying it ran round and round in a circle, in the manner of the common rhino. " .... Meanwhile Kermit and I, with our gun-bearers, went off with a ''shenzi...
Seite 30 - Natural History of the Order Cetácea, and the Oceanic Inhabitants of the Arctic Regions, 8vo. with lithographic and vnod engravings, (pub.
Seite 33 - The walls between its rude pilasters were of uncut stones; and although it contains the most elaborate single monument among the ruins, and notwithstanding the erect stones constituting its portal are the most striking of their kind, it nevertheless has palpable signs of age, and an air of antiquity which we discover in none of its kindred monuments. Of course, its broad area was never roofed in, whatever may have been the case with smaller, interior buildings no longer traceable. We must rank it,...
Seite 67 - A new shrub of the genus Esenbeckia from Colombia. By Dr. K. Krause. September 29, 1913. 1 p. (Publ. 2243.) No. 17. New races of ungulates and primates from Equatorial Africa. By Edmund Heller. October 21, 1913.

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