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Page 199 - States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas.
Page 269 - GJ 1877. Report on the Hydroida collected during the exploration of the Gulf Stream by LF de Pourtales, assistant United States Coast Survey. — Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 5(2): 1-66. . 1883. Report on the Hydroida dredged by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876.
Page 439 - A Final Report on the Crustacea of Minnesota Included in the Orders Cladocera and Copepoda. Together with a Synopsis of the described Species in North America and Keys to the known Species of the more Important Genera.
Page 141 - Sorensen, 1902), and on the basis of its work the salinity is defined as the total amount of solid material in grams contained in one kilogram of sea water when all the carbonate has been converted to oxide, the bromine and iodine replaced by chlorine, and all organic matter completely oxidized.
Page 282 - AE, 1883. Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional species dredged by the "Blake" in 1877-79, and by the US Fish Commission Steamer "Fish Hawk
Page 4 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Page 439 - List of the fresh-water and marine Crustacea of Alabama, with descriptions of the new species and synoptical keys for identification.
Page 32 - A Descriptive Catalogue of those Maps, Charts and Surveys relating to America, which are mentioned in Vol. III. of Hakluyt's Great Work.
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Page 120 - The general principle has been stated that the pressure force tends to make water flow from a region of high pressure toward a region of low pressure.