Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Band 1The Academy, 1817 List of members, 1812-1848 (1 p. 1., 8 p.) inserted in 2d series volume 1. |
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abdomen Academy acute anal fin angle animal antennæ aperture appearance base beneath bifid blackish body brown Cabinet carina carpus caudal fin characters ciliated cinders clypeus colour compressed cylindric dilated dorsal fin East Florida edge elevated elongated equal exterior eyes fish formation four furnished genus Glycine gneiss graywacke gypsum head hornblend inches Inhabits inner interior island lateral line Latr lava Length limestone lobes longitudinal madrepore margin membrane middle mouth narrow nature nearly Neptunian origin observed obtuse oval pair of feet pectoral fins peduncle placed Plate posterior preceding prominent rays reddish resembling rocks rostrum rounded scales second joint second pair segments shell shist short shorter side slate snout species specimen spine spots stratification subequal tail teeth tentacula terminal joint third joint Thomas Say thorax tion Titian Peale tooth transverse tubercles ventral volcanic whitish yellow yellowish
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Seite 193 - ... shall be capable in law by that name and style, of purchasing, holding, and conveying any estate real or personal for the use of the said corporation.
Seite 277 - P. AVARA. — Shell covered with numerous short, robust hairs ; spire convex ; whorls four, regularly rounded, with hardly elevated lines forming grooves, which are much more conspicuous near the mouth ; mouth...
Seite 279 - ... four exterior volutions equally prominent, transverse diameters equal to those of the upper surface; umbilicus central, moderate, attenuated to the apex so as to exhibit the remaining volutions. Breadth, Female two-fifths, Male three-tenths of an inch.
Seite 347 - ... that country, but is found in Louisiana, and extends northward to Kentucky. It is very abundant in East Florida, where it is found at all seasons in low bushes. Their notes are varied greatly, and resemble those of the thrush and blue jay.
Seite 194 - The elective officers of the Society shall be a president, two vice-presidents, a corresponding secretary and treasurer, and a recording secretary; and these five officers shall constitute the Executive Council with full administrative powers.
Seite 124 - ... with a large, lamelliform, elongated tooth, which appears to revolve within the shell parallel to the suture, a smaller raised line revolves nearer to the base within the shell, but becomes obsolete before it arrives at the pillar lip; umbilicus rather large.
Seite 14 - Shell heterostrophe, pale yellowish, very fragile, diaphanous, oblong, whorls six or seven; spire tapering, acute at the tip; suture slightly impressed; aperture not dilated, attenuated above, about half as long as the shell; columella much narrowed near the base, so that the view may be partially extended from the base towards the apex. "Inhabits shores of Illinois. Length seven-tenths inch; greatest breadth three-tenths nearly. Animal deep black, immaculate above and beneath; tentacula setaceous;...
Seite 1 - ... invite attention to this Introduction, because it applies at the present time, although nearly thirty-five years have elapsed since it was printed. " The members of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, desirous of acquiring knowledge themselves, and extending it among their fellow-citizens, have for some years been accustomed to meet at leisure hours, for the purpose of communicating to each other such facts and observations as are calculated to promote the views of the Society....
Seite 141 - ... and porphyry running through all the gradations from a gray rock, scarcely vitrified, to a total vitrification, and thence to a porous scoria, not unlike pumice, with transparent crystals of feldspar, taking a deeper tinge of black in proportion to the degree of vitrification. 6th. A bluish rock with feldspar, and some black crystals, having all the appearance of compact lava. If one supposes that volcanic action tends to form large cavities under the places whence the lava, &c. issues, and that...
Seite 18 - Shell very much depressed, with about six whorls ; whorls striated across, with raised, parallel, acute lines, forming strongly impressed sulcae between them. Umbilicus very large, resembling an inverted spire, in diameter at least equal to the breadth of the body whorl, and exhibiting distinctly all the volutions. Diameter three-tenths of an inch.