Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volumes 1-2California Academy of Sciences, 1863 - Science |
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Acad Academy were voted acuminate acute anal anal fin angle anthers aperture apex base Bay of San beneath border bracts branches brown California calyx caudal fin Cerros Island Chair ciliate coast color compressed diameter Donations dorsal fin elongated entire equal erect exhibited a drawing feet filaments fish flowers fossil genus glabrous glandular greatest depth head height hirsute inch long inches in length Kellogg exhibited lamina lanceolate Lanszweert lateral line leaves lobes lower jaw margin maxillary membranous minute mucronate nearly oblong obtuse one-fourth operculum ovate pectorals pedicels peduncles petals petioles plant posterior pubescent purple racemes Ransom rays rounded San Francisco scabrous scales second dorsal sepals sessile shell short side slender slightly smooth snout species specimens spines spinous stamens stem subulate surface teeth terminal tetrahedrite thick Trask tube upper ventrals vicinity villous vomer W. P. Gibbons whorls
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Page 106 - ... grove. Some were hollow, and delicate jets of steam issued from their summits, and this seemed to explain the mode of their formation. Some were not hollow throughout, being closed at the summit; but when detached from their base, a small orifice...
Page 78 - This earthquake extended to the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. At Carson City it occurred at 10 h.
Page 80 - The sea was observed to recede from the shore during the continuance of the shocks, and left the latter dry for a considerable distance, when it returned in five or six heavy rollers, which overflowed the plain on which Santa Barbara is built. The inhabitants saw the recesssion of the sea, and being aware of the danger on its return, fled to the adjoining hills near the town to escape the probable deluge.
Page 105 - A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of...
Page 199 - Ayres made the following remarks in relation to the fishes of California, which are included in Cuvier's genus Sebastes.
Page 195 - Palmeri, ns San Diego, common " in same localities as the Diphyllidia. Named after Mr. Edward Palmer, a zealous naturalist, who assisted me while at San Diego.
Page 81 - Conch., ii, 1866, p. 210, pl. xiii. fig. 2. Shell conically ovate, solid, blackish-brown, longitudinally striate: whorls 6, inflated; suture moderately impressed; apex obtuse; aperture obliquely ovate, subangulate below; lip simple, thickened within; columella short, straight, with a somewhat callous plication below the middle; white banded below the suture, and of a dirty white in the umbilical region. Length 15, diam.
Page 76 - There are usually two frontal veins which communicate by a transverse inosculation ; but sometimes the vein is single and bifurcates at the root of the nose into the two angular veins. From the nasal arch, the frontal is...