The Popular Science Monthly, Volum 11D. Appleton, 1877 |
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Side 3
... true pike is Esox . The name dog - fish is popularly applied to Menobranchus , a batrachian ; to Amia , a ganoid ; and to Acanthias , a shark . the figure . The body is an elongated cylinder covered GAR - PIKES , OLD AND YOUNG . 3.
... true pike is Esox . The name dog - fish is popularly applied to Menobranchus , a batrachian ; to Amia , a ganoid ; and to Acanthias , a shark . the figure . The body is an elongated cylinder covered GAR - PIKES , OLD AND YOUNG . 3.
Side 4
... True gar - pikes are not found in Europe , Asia , Africa , or Austra- lia , or in South America ; while in North America they seem to be nearly confined to the Mississippi River and its tributaries , and the Great Lakes . ' Prof. Poey ...
... True gar - pikes are not found in Europe , Asia , Africa , or Austra- lia , or in South America ; while in North America they seem to be nearly confined to the Mississippi River and its tributaries , and the Great Lakes . ' Prof. Poey ...
Side 10
... true that some fishes have no air - bladder ; but with some , as Amphioxus , the lamprey - eels , the sharks , ' and the skates , we may in- fer that it has not yet become developed ; while with others , as the flat fishes , the air ...
... true that some fishes have no air - bladder ; but with some , as Amphioxus , the lamprey - eels , the sharks , ' and the skates , we may in- fer that it has not yet become developed ; while with others , as the flat fishes , the air ...
Side 11
... seems to connect the air - bladder of the fishes with the lungs of the true aërial vertebrates , and to remove the objection based upon the different position of the communication between them. GAR - PIKES , OLD AND YOUNG . 11.
... seems to connect the air - bladder of the fishes with the lungs of the true aërial vertebrates , and to remove the objection based upon the different position of the communication between them. GAR - PIKES , OLD AND YOUNG . 11.
Side 12
... true than in regard to the subject on which I am now to address you . For there has been a continuity from the very earliest times of a be- lief , more or less general , in the existence of " occult " agencies , capable of manifesting ...
... true than in regard to the subject on which I am now to address you . For there has been a continuity from the very earliest times of a be- lief , more or less general , in the existence of " occult " agencies , capable of manifesting ...
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Side 688 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Side 458 - ... if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Side 39 - The anthropoid apes no doubt approach nearer to man in bodily structure than do any other animals, but, when we consider the habits of ants, their large communities and elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and. even in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence.
Side 733 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state. As this power is attached to certain situations, it is their duty to contend for these situations.
Side 379 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in all legal proceedings as establishing in- terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States: the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Side 586 - I often tried, and very nearly succeeded, in catching these birds by their legs. Formerly the birds appear to have been even tamer than at present. Cowley (in the year 1684) says that the "Turtle-doves were so tame...
Side 196 - Only very late and slowly have our minds opened to the conviction that after all the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, and that our eyes had all the while been mistaken.
Side 733 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced into practice.
Side 458 - Poet will sleep then no more than at present ; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself.
Side 435 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.