Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volum 54 |
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Pàgina 17 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Pàgina 7 - Resolved, That this Conference recommend to the states the recognition and enforcement of the principles of interstate comity in taxation. These principles require that the same property should not be taxed at the same time by two state jurisdictions, and to this end that if the title deeds or other paper evidences of the ownership of property, or of an interest in property are taxed, they shall bo taxed at the situs of the property, and not elsewhere.
Pàgina 19 - Lucifuga and Stygicola. Biol. Bull. VI, 33-54. HH Lane. 5. The history of the eye of Amblyopsis from the beginning of its development to its disintegration in old age. Mark Anniversary Volume, 167-204. 6. Divergence and convergence in fishes. Biol. Bull. Number five is the most important of these and gives a complete account of the eyes of the largest of our blind fishes. Further work on this form should consist in noting the changes of the eyes in individuals reared in the light.
Pàgina 22 - Committee shall be the board of supervision of the Association, and no business shall be transacted by the Association that has not first been referred to, or originated with, the Committee.
Pàgina 10 - An early account of their egg-laying, by Peter Martyr, is given in these words: "At such time as the heate of Nature moueth them to generation, they come forthe of the Sea, and making a deepe pit in the sand, they lay three or foure hundred Egges therein : when they haue thus emptied their bag of Conception, they put as much of the same againe into the Pit as may satisfie to couer their Egges, and so resorte againe vnto the vSea, nothing carefull of their succession.