Leland Stanford Junior University Publications: University series, Issues 12-161913 |
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Page 23
... wide as the narrowest ones , or equal to one- fourth of the length of the snout , while the fin is correspondingly large . One specimen has the peduncle very wide and short , and the fin very diminu- tive as usual . These specimens do ...
... wide as the narrowest ones , or equal to one- fourth of the length of the snout , while the fin is correspondingly large . One specimen has the peduncle very wide and short , and the fin very diminu- tive as usual . These specimens do ...
Page 28
... wide as the interorbital space under the dorsal , grows a little wider anteriorly and tapers to a point posteriorly . The head is contained from 34 to 33 times in the length . In life it is a strikingly beautiful fish , with metallic ...
... wide as the interorbital space under the dorsal , grows a little wider anteriorly and tapers to a point posteriorly . The head is contained from 34 to 33 times in the length . In life it is a strikingly beautiful fish , with metallic ...
Page 29
... wide opposite the posterior .edge of the operculum , and equal to two - thirds of its length . It is contained 4 times in the length of the body to the caudal base . The depth of the body slightly exceeds its width , and is contained ...
... wide opposite the posterior .edge of the operculum , and equal to two - thirds of its length . It is contained 4 times in the length of the body to the caudal base . The depth of the body slightly exceeds its width , and is contained ...
Page 31
... wide as in the picture . 99. Doras dorsalis Cuvier and Valenciennes . Many specimens of this common species were collected at Pará . In most of them the stomach was tightly filled with a small univalve shell . The dorsal median plates ...
... wide as in the picture . 99. Doras dorsalis Cuvier and Valenciennes . Many specimens of this common species were collected at Pará . In most of them the stomach was tightly filled with a small univalve shell . The dorsal median plates ...
Page 32
... wide curved bone , much wider than the pectoral spine , and its curve forms at least a fifth of a complete circle ( though it is not an even curve , being more abrupt below the eye ) . It extends upward from the eye , and ends above the ...
... wide curved bone , much wider than the pectoral spine , and its curve forms at least a fifth of a complete circle ( though it is not an even curve , being more abrupt below the eye ) . It extends upward from the eye , and ends above the ...
Common terms and phrases
ALEXANDER WILSON American parallels Ammonites Ammonoids ancestor Anth antheridium apex apical cell archegonia arrest of development avis Bactrites base bird Bolívar Brazil Brazilian Carboniferous caudal caudal peduncle Ceratites Ceratitidae characters colonial color columba cornix crane Cretaceous dark dorsal dusky eagle fins frond genera genetic series genus Goniatites head Hyatt and Smith inches in length interorbital Jungermanniales Lake Papary lateral line Latin America Levieri Linnćus Lower Triassic luscinia Madeira River market at Pará MART Meekoceras midrib Natal nightingale nunc ontogeny Paleozoic Pallavicinia Papary Pará pectoral Permian Philomela Phoenix plates PLAUT Plin poets political Portuguese posterior quae quam quod radiculosa raven Roman San Martin scales showing side snout song Spain Spanish America species specimens were taken spine sporophyte spots stage Steindachner swallow swan taken at Pará teeth thallus ventral VERG volucres vulture Waagenoceras wings Zollingeri
Popular passages
Page 51 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 81 - ... the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere, Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Page 39 - In summo custos Tarpeiae Manlius arcis Stabat pro templo et Capitolia celsa tenebat, Romuleoque recens horrebat regia culmo. Atque hic auratis volitans argenteus anser 655 Porticibus Gallos in limine adesse canebat...
Page 26 - I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody ! How public, like a frog, To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
Page 127 - These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, A blue and gold mistake.
Page 239 - A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland, The charm of the goldenrod — Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God.
Page 111 - And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional, And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else, And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me, And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
Page 41 - Rome ! Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose-Creek once is Tiber now...
Page 142 - Reminds not what is past, nor what's to come dost fear. "The dawning morn with songs thou dost prevent, Sets hundred notes unto thy feathered crew, So each one tunes his pretty instrument And, warbling out the old, begins anew; And thus they pass their youth in summer season, Then follow thee into a better Region, Where winter's never felt by that sweet airy legion.
Page 164 - Then on the fatal cart, in state They raised our grand Duumvirate. And as at Rome a like committee, Who found an owl within their city, With solemn rites and grave processions, At every shrine...