Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Boston Natural History Society: Wednesday, May 5, 1841Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1841 - 55 páginas |
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Página 8 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 22 - Cancellaria, and probably Cyprina and Cardita, do not seem to have passed to the south of it. Of the 197 marine species, 83 do not pass to the south shore, and 50 are not found on the north shore of the Cape. The remaining 64 take a wider range, and are found on both sides. Buzzard's Bay and the south shore have as yet been very little explored ; and we may yet expect to find many species peculiar to those localities.
Página 22 - Bay and the south shore have as yet been very little explored ; and we may yet expect to find many species peculiar to those localities. At least 70 of our species are also found on the transatlantic shores ; and more than 20 of these have been described, by different American conchologists, as new species. About 20 may be regarded as intermediate, being found most frequently by fishermen about the Banks, Newfoundland, and the islands intervening between Greenland and England.
Página 14 - Florida alligator deposits its eggs in the sand where they are hatched by the heat of the sun. In...
Página 21 - Several genera and numerous species, which are separated by the intervention of only a few miles of land, are effectually prevented from mingling by the Cape, and do not pass from one side to the other. No specimen of...
Página 44 - Germany ; and that the underlying sandstone of Ombersly, Bromsgrove, and Warwick is part of the bunter sandstein or gres bigarre of foreign geologists.
Página 18 - They were found about eighteen inches below the surface of the ground, which during nine months of the year is perfectly dry and hard ; the remaining three months it is under water. When dug out of the ground, and put into water, the fish immediately unfold themselves, and commence swimming about.
Página 5 - ... commonest understanding. The process is clearly this : the great accumulation of facts in any science, causes an absolute necessity for arrangement into divisions and sub-divisions ; the more extensive the knowledge and the number of the facts, the more natural, the more clearly defined and simple are these divisions, and each becomes the object of a separate study ; hence, the subject is more easily mastered, more easily grasped by the mind, while the man of comparatively little leisure can...
Página 5 - ... making it more intricate, simplifies and renders it more amenable to the commonest understanding. The process is clearly this : the great accumulation of facts in any science, causes an absolute necessity for arrangement into divisions and sub-divisions ; the more extensive the knowledge and the number of the facts, the more natural, the more clearly defined and simple are these divisions, and each becomes the object of a separate study ; hence, the subject is more easily mastered, more easily...
Página 25 - The distance his boat had travelled during the day was nine miles, and the butterflies continued an uninterrupted column from eight in the morning till half past five in the afternoon, so that their numbers must have been immense.