Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Volume 54Smithsonian Institution Press, 1919 - Anthropology |
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anal Andrena angle antennae apex Basal ray beak Bolivia breadth at spiracles bristles brown canal Cassia cephalothorax CHITONS clavicle collected color corrugatus Cossmann coxa curved Daphnia dark dermal Diaptomus discal dorsal elongate Engelhardt Eocene fauna feet female figure flora Fore wing fossil front gastral genera genus gray head Hind wing Hopi inner Island Kolyma Kolymsk lakes lateral length lobe male Mandibles median mesothorax metathorax Mexico middle Midrib montane mountains Müller Myrica Myrteola narrow nearly Nuculites oblique operculum oscular margin outer line oxea paired rays parasite paratype periostracum Pierce posterior Potosi praescutum present Proc prothorax quadriradiates radula region ribs rounded sculpture scutellum segment shales shell side slender slightly species specimens spiracles straight Strepsiptera Stylops surface suture tergite thick at base thorax transverse triradiates U. S. Nat United States National valve vein ventral whorls width zone
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Page iii - Museum, and setting forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology derived therefrom, or containing descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups. A volume is issued annually, or oftener, for distribution to libraries and scientific establishments, and in view of the importance of the more prompt dissemination of new facts a limited edition of each paper is printed in pamphlet form in advance.
Page iii - Publications of the United States National Museum The scientific publications of the National Museum include two series, known, respectively, as Proceedings and Bulletin. The Proceedings series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original...
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. The...
Page iii - ... newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups. Copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, are distributed as published to libraries and scientific organizations and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects. The dates at which these separate papers are published are recorded in the table of contents of each of the volumes. The series of Bulletins, the first of which was issued in 1875, contains separate...
Page 112 - that the fossil flora found in the tuffs at Potosi is very similar to existing assemblages found in eastern Bolivia or at various other places in the Amazon basin," and that " From a consideration of all the evidence available it is concluded that the flora is Pliocene in age and that the major elevation of the eastern Andes of Bolivia and the high plateau took place in the late Pliocene and throughout the Pleistocene.
Page 359 - KtcuoxauniK. creature weighing from 130 to 150 pounds. The most remarkable feature of the nervous system of this great brute, however, is the enormous enlargement of the spinal cord in the sacral region, which has a mass of more than 20 times that of the puny brain. At best the intelligence of this animal was of the lowest order, hardly more than sufficient to direct the mere mechanical functions of life. Whereas the great horned dinosaurs with skulls from 7 to 9 feet long were the largest-headed...
Page 360 - ... the horned dinosaur (Triceratops), the largest headed land animal the world has ever known. In plate 2 is shown a skeleton of one of these animals in the United States National Museum, mounted in 1904, and to this day the only skeleton of Triceratops in the world to be thus exhibited. It is known as a composite skeleton — that is, made up of the bones of more than one specimen, though the. greater part of the skeleton pertains to one individual. These specimens were collected by the late JB...
Page iii - ADVERTISEMENT. The scientific publications of the National Museum consist of two series — the Bulletin and the Proceedings. The Bulletin, publication of which was begun in 1875, is a series of more or less extensive works intended to illustrate the collections of the US National Museum and, with the exception noted below, is issued separately.
Page 359 - A newly mounted skeleton of the armored dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops, in the United States National Museum.
Page 164 - Irenidae, and a new genus and subspecies of the same group are described. A review of the subspecies of the Leach petrel, Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot). Proc. US Nat.