Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Том 2

Передняя обложка
 

Содержание


Другие издания - Просмотреть все

Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения

Популярные отрывки

Стр. 113 - ... mountain. on a rock of which his seat and the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who, presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them...
Стр. 90 - In Witness Whereof, The said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Стр. 15 - The duties of the secretary shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of the...
Стр. 112 - A delegation of warriors from the Delaware tribe having visited the governor of Virginia during the revolution, on matters of business, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and, among others, what they knew or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker...
Стр. 90 - Witnesseth: That the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), lawful money of the United States of America, to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part...
Стр. 106 - The Chief of Emigration who reached these places (or this island) has fixed these statutes forever." M. Oppert, however, gave additional variety by the translation, so that all tastes can be suited: "The grave of one who was assassinated here. May God to avenge him strike his murderer, cutting off the hand of his existence.
Стр. 40 - ... upon the banks of the Senegal, or the somewhat similar pieces circulated in Abyssinia, the Soulou Archipelago, Sumatra, Mexico, Peru, Siberia, and among the Veddahs. It is less easy to understand the origin of the curious straw money which circulated until 1694 in the Portuguese possessions in Angola, and which consisted of small mats, called libongos, woven out of rice straw, and worth about l^d.
Стр. 261 - Prostrate or decumbent, the slender stems becoming a foot or two long, glabrous or nearly so : leaves broadly spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, attenuate to a slender petiole, an inch long or usually less : flowers in small contracted axillary spikelets: bracts nearly equal, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 1 to 1 ^ lines long, little exceeding the oblong obtuse and mucronulate or acute sepals: utricle not rugose, slightly longer than the sepals: seed nearly a line broad.
Стр. 203 - A person elected to fill such casual vacancy shall hold office until the date upon which the person in whose place he is elected would regularly have retired and he shall then retire, but shall be eligible for re-election. (4...
Стр. 126 - Minnesota, TJ Hale. Illinois, Bebb. Iowa, TC Arthur, Bessey. Has passed for L. angustifolia, from which its slender spikes and paniculate habit at once distinguish it. Our species of the group are difficult and need revision, with very ample materials to be studied with the attention which Maximowicz has bestowed upon the Asiatic species. L. capitata, Michx., should be known by its very short petioles, shortpeduncled and globular heads of flowers, and legume much...

Библиографические данные