Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared with Those of Other and Similar RegionsGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - 428 páginas |
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Página 463 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part I. COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
Página 137 - There will be no scientific evidence of God's working in nature until naturalists have shown that the whole Creation is the expression of a thought, and not the product of physical agents.
Página 1 - The design of this work is to furnish an epitome of the leading principles of the science of Zoology, as deduced from the present state of knowledge, so illustrated as to be intelligible to the beginning student.
Página 461 - The design of the MISCELLANY is to supply the increasing demand for useful, instructive, and entertaining reading, and to bring all the aids of literature to bear on the cultivation of the feelings and...
Página 1 - Zoology, as deduced from the present state of knowledge, so illustrated as to be intelligible to the beginning student. No similar treatise now exists in this country, and indeed, some of the topics have not been touched upon in the language, unless in a strictly technical form, and in scattered articles.
Página 464 - THE GREAT COMMISSION ; Or, the Christian Church constituted and charged to convey the Gospel to the World.
Página 252 - It is plain," we find him saying, "that before the class of reptiles was introduced upon our globe, the fishes, being then the only representatives of the type of vertebrata, were invested with the characters of a higher order, embodying, as it were, a prospective view of a higher development in another class, which was introduced as a distinct type only at a later period; and from that time the reptilian character, which had been so prominent in the oldest fishes, was gradually reduced, till in...
Página 57 - Neither the love of the picturesque, however, nor the interests of science, could tempt us into the woods, so terrible were the black flies. This pest of flies which all the way hither had confined our ramblings on shore pretty closely to the rocks and the beach, and had been growing constantly worse and worse, here reached its climax. Although detained nearly two days, yet we could only sit with folded hands, or employ ourselves in arranging specimens, and such other occupations as could be pursued...
Página 463 - PALEY'S NATURAL THEOLOGY. Illustrated by forty plates, and Selections from the notes of Dr. Paxton, with additional Notes, original and selected, for this edition ; with a vocabulary of Scientific Terms. Edited by JOHN WARE, JI.D.
Página 465 - Dictionary, which has long been an incumbrance, and the accuracy and value of which have been depreciated by works of later date, containing recent discoveries, facts, and opinions, unknown to Cruden. The condensation of the quotations of Scripture, arranged under their most obvious heads, while it diminishes the bulk of the work, greatly facilitates the finding of any required passage.
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Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, Volúmenes23-24 Royal Canadian Institute Vista de fragmentos - 1940 |
Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment John Gunn,Robert John Steedman,Richard Ryder Vista previa limitada - 2003 |