Proceedings of the Linnean Society of LondonLinnean Society of London, 1897 Includes list of additions to the library. |
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Agric ALBERT C. L. G. GÜNTHER Anatomy animals April Author Beiträge Berlin Biology Birds Botanical Botany British Museum Bull Calcutta Catalogue Charles Christmas Island collection Contributions Crustacea Daydon Jackson deep-sea dredge Edited Edward elected a Fellow exhibited Expedition fathoms fauna fish Flora following papers Foraminifera Foreign Member Fossil FRANK CRISP Franz Josef Land Friedrich Welwitsch Garden's label Gardens genus Geological George Heft Henry Indian Island James John Journ last Meeting Leipzig Lepidoptera Linn Linné Linnean Medal Linnean Society Liverpool London Marine Meeting were read Messrs Natural History Naturalists Nostrat papers were read Paris plants plates President Prof read and confirmed Referring remarks Report Royal scientific Seychelles Skin species specimens Stuttgart Swainson Tafeln Thomas Christy Tortoises Trans U.S. Dept U.S. Nat Ueber Untersuchungen volumes Washington William Zool Zoological Zoologist
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Página 20 - But it is the circumstance, that several of the islands possess their own species of the tortoise, mocking-thrush, finches, and numerous plants, these species having the same general habits, occupying analogous situations, and obviously filling the same place in the natural economy of this archipelago, that strikes me with wonder.
Página 79 - Guide to the Study Of Insects, and a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops.
Página 102 - Edition, with Additions and Corrections ; and numerous Figures illustrative of the Umbelliferous Plants, the Composite Plants, the Grasses, and the Ferns.
Página 24 - are desirous of forming a society for the cultivation of the science of natural history in all its branches, and more especially of the natural history of Great Britain and Ireland...
Página 36 - That the best thanks of the Society be given to the President for his very able Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the Society's Journal.
Página 47 - I had been in the habit of taking in equally high northern latitudes ; and although contrary to the general belief of naturalists, I have no doubt that from however great a depth we may be enabled to bring up the mud and stones of the bed of the ocean, we shall find them teeming with animal life ; the extreme pressure at the greatest depth does not appear to affect these creatures.
Página 2 - YVarrand exhibited a remarkable bird which was believed at first to be a hybrid between the Red Grouse and Ptarmigan, but which in the opinion of Mr. Ogilvie Grant, Mr. Millais, and Mr. Harting, could only be regarded as an abnormally pale-coloured grouse. Only one possible instance had been recorded of such a hybrid as was suggested, viz. in the case of a bird which was exhibited some years ago by Prof. Newton to the Zoological Society (PZS, 1878, p. 793) and had since been figured by Mr. Millais...
Página 3 - Ridewood read a paper on the structure and development of the hyobranchial skeleton and larynx in Xenopus and Pipa.
Página 62 - PLAYFAIR, seconded by Dr. GERVIS, and carried with acclamation, " That the best thanks of the meeting be given to the President, Dr. Matthews Duncan, for his excellent address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the next volume of
Página 26 - LEIT&ADAM: on Gigantic Land-Tortoises and a small Freshwater Species from the Ossiferous Caverns of Malta, together with a List of their Fossil Fauna; and a Note on Chelonian Remains from the Rock-cavities of Gibraltar.