Scientific American
Monkeys. By A.R. WALLACE.--Comparison of skeletons of man, orang outang, and chimpanzee.--Other anatomical resemblances and diversities.--The different kinds of monkeys and the countries they inhabit.--American monkeys.--Lemurs. --Distribution, affinities, and zoological rank...
It is well known that there are several serious drawbacks in the usual plan of pressing woolen or worsted cloths and felts with press plates, press papers, and presses. Three ob...
1. Chapter 1Monkeys. By A.R. WALLACE.--Comparison of skeletons of man, orang outang, and chimpanzee.--Other anatomical resemblances and diversities.--The different kinds of monkeys and the...
2. Chapter 2Turning now to Asia, we have first one of the best known of the large man-like apes--the orang-outang, found only in the two large islands, Borneo and Sumatra. The name is Malay...
4. Chapter 4The Kumaon Cynthia cocoons, as I found it to be the case with Indian species introduced for the first time into Europe, did not produce moths at the same time, nor as regularly...
5. Chapter 5The error of the Spanish Admiral in supposing that the eastern shores of Asia extended 240 degrees east of Spain, or to the meridian of the modern San Diego, in California--this...
9. Chapter 9The object of this invention is to render unnecessary the use in secondary batteries of a porous pot which creates useless resistance to the electric current, and to store in an...
8. Chapter 8The facts being as here stated, the absurdity of the Ohio law, concerning the establishment of county meridians, becomes apparent. The longitude has nothing at all to do With th...
6. Chapter 6The drum is 6.08 m. diameter, the breadth being 2.04 m., with a total weight of 33,000 kilos. The beams are of cast iron with balance weights cast on. The connecting rods and cr...
3. Chapter 3This relationship to the lowest of the mammalian tribes seems inconsistent with the place usually accorded to these animals at the head of the entire mammalian series, and opens...
10. Chapter 10_Modes of Occurrence of the Minerals_.--In general, the greater number of the specimens which are to be found in the tunnel occur in veins generally perpendicular, and with othe...
11. Chapter 11When we examine inanimate nature we find two grand divisions of matter, _fluid_ and _solid_. These two divisions may be subdivided into, the former gaseous and liquid, the latte...