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Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 3 of 3Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 3 of 3 - Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological SelectionOf the six chapters which constitute this concluding volume of G. J. Romanes' Darwin, and after Darwin, three, the first two and the last, were in type at the time...
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Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3 - Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and UtilityAs its sub-title announces, the present volume is mainly devoted to a consideration of those Post-Darwinian Theories which involve fundamental questions of Heredity and Utility. As regards Heredity, I have restricted...
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Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 - Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109The authors of this paper spent the summer of 1920 in western Michigan studying the mammals of the region for the Michigan Geological and...
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Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, KansasFishes of the Big Blue River Basin, KansasThe Big Blue River in northeastern Kansas will soon be impounded by the Tuttle Creek Dam, located about five miles north of Manhattan, Kansas. Since the inception of this project by the U. S. Army Corps of...
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The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, Illustrated with the ZoopraxiscopeThe Attitudes of Animals in Motion, Illustrated with the ZoopraxiscopeJob describes the action of the horse; Homer, that of the ox; it engaged the profound attention of Aristotle, and Borelli devoted a lifetime to its attempted solution. In every age, and in every country,...
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Bird NeighborsBird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our HomesNot to have so much as a bowing acquaintance with the birds that nest in our gardens or under the very eaves...
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A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Upon, and Submersion In, the WaterA Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water.All apparent printer's errors retained. Variation in punctuation are as in the original, but missing full stops at end of...
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Trees Worth KnowingTrees Worth KnowingOccasionally I meet a person who says: "I know nothing at all about trees." This modest disclaimer is generally sincere, but it has always turned out to be untrue. "Oh, well, that old sugar maple, I've always known that tree. We used...
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Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including ChemistryHeads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including ChemistrySituated, as I happily am, in the neighbourhood of the New College at Hackney, an institution that does honour to the Dissenters, an institution open to all persons without distinction[1], and connected as...
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The Teaching of GeometryThe Teaching of GeometryA book upon the teaching of geometry may be planned in divers ways. It may be written to exploit a new theory of geometry, or a new method of presenting the science as we already have it. On the other hand,...
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Forest Trees of Illinois: How to Know ThemForest Trees of Illinois: How to Know ThemTHE white pine is found along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan in Lake and Cook counties and is also scattered along river bluffs in Jo Daviess, Carroll, Ogle and LaSalle counties. The only grove of this beautiful...
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Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919The pages of the journal are especially open to western entomologists and zoologists. Notes and papers relating to western and Californian forms and conditions are particularly desired, but short morphological, systematic or economic studies...
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Jungle PeaceJungle PeaceWith three exceptions these chapters have appeared in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly, and I publish them through the kindness of the Editor, Ellery Sedgwick. "Hoatzins at Home" is adapted from a title in my Tropical Wild Life, Volume I, published by...
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A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus OsteocephalusA Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus OsteocephalusWhen we initiated a study of the herpetofauna at Santa Cecilia in Amazonian Ecuador in 1966, we were immediately confronted with many kinds of animals that we could not identify with the existing literature. Comparisons of our...
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Through Magic Glasses and Other LecturesThrough Magic Glasses and Other Lectures - A Sequel to The Fairyland of ScienceThe present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, the Fairyland of Science. It travels over a wide field, pointing out...
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Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata AgassizNatural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata AgassizThe ornate box turtle, Terrapene o. ornata Agassiz, was studied more or less continuously from September, 1953, until July, 1957. Intensive field studies were made of free-living, marked populations in two small areas of...
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A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)Need for a comprehensive systematic review of the snakes of the genus Conophis was pointed out by Stuart (1954a, b). Since these snakes appeared to be of zoogeographic importance in the Central...
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Spencer's Philosophy of ScienceSpencer's Philosophy of Science - The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913Towards the close of 1870, while I was still in my teens, my youthful enthusiasm was fired by reading Tyndall's Discourse on The Scientific Use of the Imagination. The...
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Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)The prairie vole is by far the most abundant mammal on the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation and on grassland areas throughout northeastern Kansas. This vole therefore affects the vegetation, perhaps more than...
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Scientific Culture, and Other EssaysScientific Culture, and Other Essays - Second Edition; with AdditionsThe essays collected in this volume, although written for special occasions without reference to each other, have all a bearing on the subject selected as the title of the volume, and are an outcome of...
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