The American Naturalist, Volume 29Essex Institute, 1895 - Biology |
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Page 156 - The Optical Recognition and Economic Importance of the Common Minerals Found in Building Stones.
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Page 820 - V., one of the most remarkable instances of gynandry on record. If this woman, when a child, had been treated as a girl, she would, in all probability, have gone through life as a woman, for she was born a female in every sense of the word. At a very early age, however, her father, who was an exceedingly eccentric nobleman, dressed her in boy's clothing, called her Sandor, and taught her boyish games and sports. " Sarolta-Sandor remained under her father's influence till her twelfth year, and then...
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Page 138 - America, as far as we are at present acquainted with it. 2. All the species are extinct, and though the Gosiute Lake and the ancient lacustrine basin of Florissant were but little removed from each other, and the deposits of both are presumably of oligocene age, not a single instance is known of the occurrence of the same species in the two basins.
Page 944 - The yellow pigment may be artificially produced by heating uric acid with water in sealed tubes at high temperatures, and the identity of the natural and artificial products may be demonstrated by the similarity of their spectrum. Mr. Hopkins believes that this yellow substance, which may be called lepidotic acid, together with a closely allied red substance, will account for all the chemical pigmentation of the wing-scales of the coloured Pieridse, though modifications may be produced by superadded...