Category: Science - Biology
The controversies over the question of the origin of Central American culture are to be again awakened by the exploration organized under the direction of the American Museum of Natural History through the liberality of its president, Morris K. Jesup, Esq. The plans embrace an...
The causes of the formation of rain are evidently the same everywhere. The secondary conditions change only according to climates; but they vary so much that rains are distribut...
6. Part 6When he has got the water courses into what he considers good working condition and one that should be permanent, he tries to clinch matters. This is done by so combining the va...
14. Part 14It was perhaps to be expected that Sir William Crookes, as president of the British Association, would, whatever else he touched upon in his presidential address, say something...
2. Part 2The fabulous account of the land of Fusang evidently supplied documentary evidence, and Mexico was conceived to be the mythical Fusang. Mr. Vining goes so far as to declare that...
10. Part 10That the little animal has fairly achieved the object for which it was imported can not be gainsaid, but that it would ever become the universal pest which it is at the present...
17. Part 17=Wave Length and other Measurements.=--Describing the measurement of absolute wave length before the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, Mr. A. F. Miller remarked that...
9. Part 9Associated with this species are commonly to be found other species of aphides, notably the one which secretes, or rather excretes, a white powdery substance which is to be seen...
8. Part 8So these architectural forms that result from the perennial battle between the dry land and the sea, no matter what their size, are charming in majesty, in proportion, in harmon...
12. Part 12Then, too, the population of the Netherlands is very homogeneous, and the leaders in all good works are not only administering to their own people, but are unbiased by prior exp...
13. Part 13By the multiplication of competing colleges putting sectarian interests in the foremost place, the means were divided up and frittered away, which, concentrated in one instituti...
3. Part 3Government experiments for the development or extension of vegetable fiber industries have been instituted, at different times, in many countries. In some instances these have b...
16. Part 16_Frederick H. Ripley_ and _Thomas Tapper_, authors of the Natural Music Course, have arranged _A Short Course in Music_, consisting of two books, for use in schools in which the...
5. Part 5A concomitant change has been from a state of vague structure, so far as there is any, to a state of distinct structure. Even the primary differentiation in the lowest human gro...
15. Part 15Mr. _Seward_ excuses himself in rather an apologetic way for undertaking to write a book on _Fossil Plants_[14] for the Cambridge Natural Science Manuals--a task which Professor...
4. Part 4Another possible fiber industry for Florida is the cultivation of bowstring hemp, or the fiber of a species of _Sansevieria_ that grows in rank luxuriance throughout the subtrop...
7. Part 7As the governor's authority wanes, his dignity waxes. After 1632 a viceroy of high rank was sent to New Spain. In 1867 Disraeli, half genius and half charlatan, commenced a poli...
1. Part 1The controversies over the question of the origin of Central American culture are to be again awakened by the exploration organized under the direction of the American Museum of...
18. Part 18DR. LE NEVE FOSTER, who nearly met his death in 1897 from carbonic-oxide poisoning while investigating a mine accident in the Isle of Man, discussing, in his report on the disas...