Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volums 30-31

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American Philosophical Society, 1892
 

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Pàgina 155 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Pàgina 47 - He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting, Amen.
Pàgina 156 - ... Nature constitute but the multiform revelation of an Omnipresent Power that is not identifiable with Nature. And in this conclusion there is no room left for the difficulty which baffles contemporary theology. The scientific inquirer may retort upon the theologian : Once really adopt the conception of an ever-present God, without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground...
Pàgina 162 - GLUGE (GOTTLIEB). ATLAS OF PATHOLOGICAL HISTOLOGY. Translated by Joseph Leidy, MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Ac.
Pàgina 322 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Pàgina 284 - ... round the world in 1836 to 1842. — During the year the Society has held eight meetings, at which thirteen papers were read, and three of the sections held regular monthly meetings. — At a meeting held by the Council on October 26, it was resolved that the Society should offer prizes of 25/. each for the best communication containing the results of original research or observation upon certain subjects to be set forth from time to time. — The Bill for incorporating the Society was approved...
Pàgina 163 - Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in the University of Pennsylvania ; President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and of the Faculty of the Wagner Free Institute of Sciences, Philadelphia.
Pàgina 164 - Description of some Remains of Fishes from the Carboniferous and Devonian Formations of the United States.
Pàgina 155 - But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Pàgina 269 - The Pelycosauria could not, however, have given origin to the Prototheria, since in that subclass of mammals there is a well-developed coracoid. But in the Procolophonina this element is developed as in the Prototheria. Moreover, the Pelycosauria and the Procolophonina have the interclavicle, which is an element of membranous origin, while in the Prototheria we have the corresponding cartilage bone, the episternum. This element is present in the Permian order of the Cotylosauria, which is nearly...

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