Zoe, Volume 2

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Zoe Publishing Company, 1891 - Biology
"A biological journal" (varies).
 

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Page 258 - To hiin, who in the love of Nature, Holds communion with her visible forms, She speaks a various language. For his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness
Page 394 - I. Descriptions of some new North American species, chiefly of the United States, with a revision of the American species of the genus Erythronium. II. Descriptions of new Mexican species, collected chiefly by Mr. CG Pringle, in 1889 and 1890. III. Upon a wild species of
Page 185 - College, his alma mater. From that time he abandoned the practice of medicine and devoted himself to the study of the physical sciences. In 1855 he became lecturer on chemistry, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the University of New
Page 206 - To see the different kinds of insects hovering over these plants, alighting on the flowers and crawling slowly through the viscid hairs of the honey glands is to understand how this race of lovely hybrids came to be. Not in vain do these flowers set off their beauty and store their sweets.
Page 219 - may be infinitely varied according to the proportions in which different rays are reflected or absorbed—we should expect that white would be, as it really is, comparatively rare and exceptional in nature.
Page 177 - Observations on the North American Badgers, with Especial Reference to the Forms found in Arizona, with Description of a New Subspecies from Northern California. By EDGAR A. MEARNS, Assistant Surgeon, USA
Page 287 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spake not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed
Page 219 - If we consider that in order to produce white all the rays which fall upon an object must be reflected in nearly the same proportions as they exist in solar light—whereas, if rays of any one or more kinds are absorbed or neutralized, the resultant reflected light will be colored; and that this color may be infinitely varied according to the proportions in which different rays are reflected or
Page 93 - spake of trees, from the Cedar tree that is Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the
Page 161 - with our felicitous custom of giving names, because it bears not the least resemblance to clover, and the bear will have nothing to do with it. The

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