[Proceedings and memoirs]

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[Proceedings and memoirs]

published in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Academy, March 21, 1912 ...

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English
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614

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Table of Contents

pt. I. Proceedings of the centenary meeting.
pt. II. Memoirs. Human spermatogenesis, spermatocytes and spermiogenesis; a study in inheritance, by T.H. Montgomery. A contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad, by Carlotta J. Maury. Early adaptation in the feeding habits of star-fishes, by J.M. Clarke. Mimicry in boreal American Rhopalocera, by Henry Skinner. The petrographic province of Neponset Valley, Massachusetts, by F. Bascom. Description of a new fossil porpoise of the genus Delphinodon from the Miocene formation of Maryland, by F.W. True. A synopsis of the fishes of the genus Mastacenmbelus, by G.A. Boulenger. The faunal divisions of eastern North America in relation to vegetation, by Spencer Trotter.

Edition Notes

Bibliographies accompany some of the articles.
Each plate preceded by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
The proceedings were also issued in a separate volume, and the memoirs were also issued in the form of monographs. cf. p. [ii]
The relation of smell, taste, and the common chemical sense in vertebrates, by G.H. Parker. On the supposed tertiary antarctic continent, by Sir W.T. Thiselton-Dyer. Mollusk fauna of northwest America, by W.H. Dall. The relation of plant protoplasm to its environment, by J.M. Macfarlane. Tetraplasy, the law of the four inseparable factors of evolution, by H.F. Osborn. The phylogenetic value of color characters in birds, by Witmer Stone. Further experiments with mutations in eyecolor of Drosophila: the loss of the orange factor, by T.H. Morgan. On the radiation of energy, by J.E. Ives. The history and zoological position of the albino rat, by H.H. Donaldson. The gorgonians of the Brazilian coast, by A.E. Verrill. New Observations in chemistry and mineralogy, by G.A. Koenig. A study of the variation and zoogeography of Liguus in Florida, by H.A. Pilsbry. Analyse der süd-amerikanischen Heliceen, von Hermann von Ihbering. Experimental studies on nuclear and cell division in the eggs of Crepidula, by E.G. Conklin. Index to genera, species, etc., described or referred to in this volume. General index.

Published in
Philadelphia
Series
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 2d ser.,, vol. XV

Classifications

Library of Congress
QH1 .A19 2d ser., vol. xv

The Physical Object

Pagination
cxlii, [2], 614 p.
Number of pages
614

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Open Library
OL6704208M
LCCN
27016054
OCLC/WorldCat
26186882

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