Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volym 7–8

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American Philosophical Society, 1861
 

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Sida 364 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Sida 308 - No estate, real or personal, shall hereafter be bequeathed, devised, or conveyed to any body politic, or to any person, in trust for religious or charitable uses...
Sida 269 - No other explorer of the botany of North America has, personally, made more discoveries ; no writer on American plants, except perhaps Professor Asa Gray, has described more new genera and species.
Sida 368 - Sciences, which he continued to edit for many years. The Journal was undertaken with liberal views, the doctor never receiving any salary for his services. He was subsequently an occasional contributor to diff'erent periodicals.
Sida 248 - Martin's Island, where fossils are found in this sandstone, they are allied to Atrypa fallax and other forms characteristic of the lower sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, therefore, highly probable that the coal-beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not correspond in geological position with the coal-beds of Europe, which rest on the summit of the carboniferous beds.
Sida 311 - Iowa, where he entered upon the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar in...
Sida 308 - ... and all dispositions of property contrary hereto shall be void, and go to the residuary legatee or devisee, next of kin or heirs, according to law...
Sida 266 - Descriptions of new species and genera of plants in the natural order of the Compositae, collected in a tour across the continent to the Pacific, a residence in Oregon, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands and upper California, during the years 1834 and 1835.
Sida 326 - Irving's language is with great taste and felicity modelled on that of Addison, Goldsmith, Sterne, or Mackenzie: but the thoughts and sentiments are taken at the rebound, and, as they are brought forward at the present period, want both freshness and probability.
Sida 296 - Annual Report of the Officers of the Retreat for the Insane, at Hartford, Conn.

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