Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volumen 14

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1878
 

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Página 13 - Converging Series, expressing the Ratio between the Diameter and the Circumference of a Circle.
Página 34 - Report on the Fishes observed on the Coasts of New Jersey and Long Island during the Summer of 1854, by Spencer F. Baird. Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Página xvii - The complex affinities of species, and still more the filiations which arise from these affinities, become obvious to the eye only when one has acquired a perfect knowledge of the species and genera of a fauna. To seize them in all their extent, it is necessary to know, as it were, all the...
Página xvi - ... of the layers, of their reconstruction under new forms, allows us to draw an inference by analogy as to the more ancient transformations, and the agents which have produced them; so the study of species, and of their actual existing transformations seems likely to enable us to follow up the chain of these transformations to a point more or less close to their origin.
Página 52 - GARDNER, WH Ethnology of the Indians of the valley of the Red River of the North.

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