Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Volume 34Smithsonian Institution Press, 1908 - Anthropology |
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A. H. CLARK Actinometra adult Albatross Albatross Station Alcyonaria angle Antedon aperture apex arms Aru Bay basal base brachial valve Brady branches British Museum centro-dorsal Challenger Reports cirri coast color Comatula concave convex costal axillaries crinoids d'Orbigny Dalmanella detailed description diameter dorsal east longitude edge elongate Eudiocrinus fathoms fathoms Cat fauna female formation fossils genus gray H. M. S. Challenger HARTLAUB Hawaiian hind horn Islands joints length limestone lines locality long as broad lower male margin median miles Miocene Molokai MÜLLER needlecase nomen nudum north latitude outer Owston collection P. H. CARPENTER pinnule pleopods polyps posterior Proc Pulo radial ridge Rupat Sagami Bay segments shales shell Siak River side skull slender slightly species specimens spicules spines Station H Sumatra surface suture syzygial Thalassometra Type-locality Type.-Cat U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum U. S. S. Albatross upper ventral whorl width XXVI Zool Zoology
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Page iii - Proceedings, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original papers, based on the collections of the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups.
Page iii - Since 1902 the volumes of the series known as “Contributions from the National Herbarium,” and containing papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum, have been published as Bulletins.
Page 209 - Syzygies occur between the third and fourth brachials, again between the ninth and tenth and fourteenth and fifteenth, and distally at intervals of three oblique muscular articulations.
Page 317 - ... these designs. In view of their wide distribution over the whole Eskimo area, it seems justifiable to consider them as a very old possession of the Eskimo, and to assume that originally they bore no relation to the needlecases on which they are found with such great regularity. Incidentally it may be remarked that the explanations of these forms as bushes and whales...
Page 329 - ... traced with a fair degree of certainty, rather than on speculations in regard to the origin of remote forms for the development of which no data are available. I believe a considerable amount of other evidence can be brought forward sustaining the point of view that I have tried to develop, namely, that decorative forms may be largely explained as results of the play of the imagination under the restricting influence of a fixed conventional style. Looking at this matter from a purely theoretical...
Page 64 - About eighty species of birds, inclnding those observed on a trip to the Gallinas Mountains, were observed within a circuit of fifty miles. The country which this short trip covered was more interesting to an ornithologist than any other of the same extent visited during the season, and it is to be regretted that more time could not have been spent there. Nothing new taken, but the character of the country is well suited to the wants of birds, and both land and water species were numerous. Abundant...
Page 329 - ... which have to a certain extent modified the manner of representing animals which were adapted to use as needlecases; so that the old form and style of the needlecase determined the treatment of the animal form. If we were to apply to the present series the theory of the origin of conventional form from realistic motives, it would be exceedingly difficult to account for the general uniformity of fundamental type. It seems to me that, on the basis of this theory, we could not account for the diversity...
Page 11 - And hauntings of the gray sea-wolf, The palmy Western Key lay lapped In the warm washing of the Gulf. But weary to the hearts of all The burning glare, the barren reach Of Santa Rosa's withered beach, And Pensacola's ruined wall. And weary was the long patrol, The thousand miles of shapeless strand, From Brazos to San Bias that roll Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
Page 245 - Fleming. ODOSTOMIA (EVALEA) ATOSSA. new species. Shell small, bulimiform, bluish white, polished, with four gently convex whorls beside a very minute (and somewhat eroded) nucleus of about one whorl; suture distinct, not appressed; surface with two or three faint spiral threads on the second, four or more on the third, becoming obsolete on the last whorl, subequally distributed between the sutures: beside these there are numerous extremely fine spiral...
Page 314 - They must be considered as one of the characteristic features of this type, which is so well defined, and whose distribution is so restricted that there cannot be the slightest doubt as to the unity of its origin. These needlecases have also a characteristic decoration. On the whole, there is a tendency to set off a slightly concave surface, which extends along the faces of the tube, between the flanges and farther down. This concave face may be observed...