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Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
By Boston Society of Natural History
Published by Boston Society of Natural History, 1901
Item notes: v.29 (1901)
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jan 16, 2008

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endothelium, pronephros, hepatic cylinders
218
Acmaea, Acmaeidae, nephridia
223
stomodeum, hanging valleys, imaginal discs
16
Harrington Sound, Coney Island, echinoderms
362
prostomium, setae, parapodia

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... communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities, that none of them join the principal valley, either on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable, if each of these valleys were not the work of the stream that flows in it. - Page 278

List of marine mollusca of Coldspring Harbor, Long Island, with descriptions of one new genus and two new species of Nudibranchs. - Page 222

Catalogue of Marine Mollusca added to the Fauna of the New England Region during the past Ten Years. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. - Page 159

On looking at the maps of any of these lakes one can not but see that the lake surface, not the lake bottom, represents approximately the level of the pre-glacial valley, and that the lateral streams and torrents enter the lake in the way they do because they could only erode their channels down to the level of the old valley before the ice overwhelmed it. - Page 314

Observations in the Sierra Nevada led this keen observer to state that " the effect of the temporary occupancy of a typical water-cut canon by glacier ice will be to (1) increase its width, (2) change the original V to a U cross profile, (3) cut off the terminal portions of tributary canons and thus relatively elevate their embouchures, (4) intensify certain irregularities of gradient in the canon-bottom, (5) excavate rock-basins, (6) develop cirques, and, in general, transform such canon into an... - Page 311

On the limpets; with special reference to the species of the west coast of America, and to a more natural classification of the group. Am. - Page 221

No. 13. The embryonic history of imaginal discs in Melophagus ovinus L., together with an account of the earlier stages in the development of the insect. - Page 16

Greenman. 22 pp. 25 cts. No 4. Studies in Diptera Cyclorhapha. 1. The Pipunculidae of the United States. By Garry de N. Hough. 10 pp. 10 cts. No. 3. Notes on the reptiles and amphibians of Intervale, NH By Glover M. Allen. 13 pp. 15 cts. No. 2. Variation and sexual selection in man. - Page 160

... Allen. 13 pp. 15 cts. No. 2. Variation and sexual selection in man. By Edwin Tenney Brewster. 17 pp. 25 cts. No. 1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, May 3, 1899. - Page 22

The development of Penilia schmackeri Richard. By Mervin T. Sudler. 23 pp., 3 plates. 30 cts. No. 5. Contributions from the Gray herbarium of Harvard university. New series, no. 17. - Page 184

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127 State St. Brooklyn, NY - Page 376
127 State St. Brooklyn, NY West Newton. W! Beacon St. Absent. Washington, DC 14 Louisburg Sq. Harvard Medical School. Hyde Park. Absent. ...
113 Broad St - Page 373
274 Clarendon St. 15 Marlboro ugh St. Yellow Springs, Ohio. 65 Marlborough St. Jamaica Plain. Claremont, NH 113 Broad St. Absent. 37 Union Park.
235 Beacon St - Page 373
235 Beacon St. Washington^. C. Raymond B. Earle, Charles R. Eastman, Charles L. Edwards, Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. JW Elliot, Mary L. Ells, James H. ...
046 Washington St - Page 30
046 Washington St. 320 Atlantic Ave. 91 Mt. Vernon St. Chapel Hill, NC 53 Marlborough St. 317 Commonwealth Ave. Maiden. Wellesley. 81 Marlborough St. ...
1 Clarendon St - Page 373
1 Clarendon St. 33 Summer St. Harvard Medical School. Absent. 422 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge. Roxbury. Jamaica Plain. 287 Beacon St. 416 Beacon St. ...
INTERVALE, NH - Page 63
ALLEN, INTERVALE, NH THE observations on which this paper is based were made almost entirely during the summer of 189. ...
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89 Marlborough St. Providence, RI - Page 29
92 Beacon St. 89 State St. 53 State St. Allstou. Cob. asset. 53 State St. Cambridge. 89 Marlborough St. Providence, RI 1 Marlborough St. Brookliue. ...
20 Mt. Vernon St - Page 36
20 Mt. Vernon St. 31 State St. 380 Mat-lboron{,'h St. 108 Summer St. Amherst. Absent. tCambridge. New Haven, Conn. Absent. Brookline. 28 Pemberton Sq. ...
Cambridge, Mass - Page 269
Most of the material was obtained in Germany, but a portion of it came from the vicinity of Cambridge, Mass:, and of Haverford, Pa. ...
more pages: 66
54 Commonwealth Ave - Page 36
54 Commonwealth Ave. 13 Broad St. 108 Mt. Veruon St. Brookliue. 35 Newbury St. 280 Marlbt trough Si. Springlield. Brookline. 20 Mt. Vernon St. ...
Bellinzona - Page 301
On going southward by rail from Bellinzona to Lugano, along a stretch of the St. Gotthard route between the great tunnel and Milan, ...
more pages: 276
Boston - Page 355
The field lessons in general were given at localities not far distant from Boston and occupied a half day. A few were given at greater distances and ...
more pages: 224
New Haven - Page 138
two species of Turbonilla, Eriphyla, and a southern variety of Gemms appear to be legitimate inhabitants of Coldspring Harbor, but not of New Haven. ...
more pages: 139
Seattle - Page 417
It does not appear in any of the littoral collections from the region of Seattle. The extraordinary elongation of the dermal sensory papillae in ...
more pages: 383
Victoria, BC - Page 408
"WA Herdman at Victoria, BC, in the summer of 1897, and by him kindly placed in my hands for description. Unfortunately, all the posterior portion of ...
more pages: 381
Meiringen - Page 297
eroded and cross the valleys in rugged sills. Forms of this kind are known in Alpine valleys ; for example, in the valley of the Aar above Meiringen.
San Francisco - Page 428
It occurs on the California coast as far south at least as San Francisco, and is abundant at Bolinas, Marin County. ...
more pages: 385
Rangeley, Maine - Page 74
In the small series from Rangeley, Maine, one specimen, a very old individual, is almost black all over, but has the belly somewhat mottled with white ...
San Pedro, California - Page 419
I have found it in abundance at the entrance of Tomales Bay, and at San Pedro, California. It forms a tube of coarse sand, which is lined by a ...
Stone Mountain, Georgia - Page 91
Growing on scanty humus in hollows and crevices of granite rock on the summit and slopes of Stone Mountain, Georgia, where curiously local, ...
Albany - Page 238
A study in palaeozoic stratigraphy and correlation : the Hudson River beds of the neighborhood of Albany and their taxonomic equivalents," by Rudolf ...
more pages: 227
Wilson, New York - Page 370
Wilson, New York, NYA Smith Woodward, London, Eng. Henry Woodward, London, Eng. JJ Woodward, Washington, DC Ferdinand Zirkel, Leipsic. Germany. ...
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Cambridge - Page 223
The Curator is, therefore, very glad to be able to say that, although his work now lies almost wholly in Cambridge, he still remains connected with ...
Lubbock - Page 312
from which their streams cascade down into the main stream, Lubbock writes : " It is obvious that this terrace represents a former 'Thalweg' of the ...
New York - Page 3
Harbor (Davenport, '98) is an indentation some five miles long and one mile wide opening into Long Island Sound some forty miles east of New York. ...
more pages: 282
Santa Barbara - Page 400
specimens have been brought from Puget Sound, and I have collected it at various points along the California coast as far south as Santa Barbara. ...
more pages: 399
Wheeler, Washington - Page 370
Wheeler, Washington, DC William T. White, New York, NYRP Whitfield New York, NY Robert EE Wiedersheim, Freiburg, Germany. Burt G. ...
more pages: 28
Vancouver - Page 334
almost pure white in color, which doubtless belong to this species described by Theel from specimens collected at Vancouver. ...
Halifax - Page 12
famous mineral localities at Partridge Island, Wason's Bluff, and Cape Blomidon, and the beautiful scenery around Halifax and the Annapolis Valley. ...
Windsor - Page 12
the gold mines at Montagu, the gypsum quarries at Windsor, the famous mineral localities at Partridge Island, Wason's Bluff, and Cape Blomidon, ...
Braintree - Page 15
As the greater part of the slates in the Basin resemble those of Braintree, the whole series was regarded as of the same age. ...
more pages: 4
Copenhagen - Page 97
Type in the herbarium of the Botanic garden of Copenhagen ; a tracing and fragment in herb. Gray. 5. A rudimentary pappus generally present as a ...
Milan - Page 301
Gotthard route between the great tunnel and Milan, the railway obliquely ascends the southeastern wall of the trough-like valley of the Ticino just ...
Tifton, Ga - Page 84
I have eleven males, collected by GR Pilate at Tifton, Ga., in Oct. and Nov., and two females, collected by CF Baker in Alabama. ...
Geneva, NY - Page 369
Washington, DC Heidelberg, Germany. Geneva, Switzerland. Washington, DC London, Eng. Ottawa, Can. Philadelphia, Pa. Geneva, NY Utrecht, Holland.
more pages: 27
Lake George, NY - Page 367
Bishop, Lake George, NY William P. Blake, New Haven, Ct. EL Bouvier, Paris, France. William H. Brewer, New Haven, Ct. William K. ...
more pages: 25
Pictou, Nova Scotia - Page 67
Hickman informs me that he has taken it at Pictou, Nova Scotia. It is apparently characteristic of the eastern Canadian zone and is usually found in ...
Hanover, NH - Page 368
Hanover, NH Rejkyavik, Iceland. Alleghany, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Melbourne, Viet. Hanover, NH San Francisco, Cal. Christopher Johnson, David S. ...
more pages: 26
Washington, DC - Page 370
Wilson, New York, NYA Smith Woodward, London, Eng. Henry Woodward, London, Eng. JJ Woodward, Washington, DC Ferdinand Zirkel, Leipsic. Germany. ...
more pages: 27
Woods Hole, Mass - Page 163
was carried on at the laboratory of the United States fish commission at Woods Hole, Mass., and we take this opportunity of expressing our thanks to.
Cheraw, SC - Page 369
Cheraw, SC St. Petersburg, Russia. Munich, Germany. Zurich, Switzerland. London, Eng. Berkeley, Cal. Czernowitz, Austria. Milton. Paris, France. ...
more pages: 27
Burlington, NJ - Page 367
Binney, Burlington, NJ Nathaniel H. Bishop, Lake George, NY William P. Blake, New Haven, Ct. EL Bouvier, Paris, France. William H. ...
more pages: 25
South Newbury, Vt - Page 373
South Newbury, Vt. Brookline.- 18 Commonwealth Ave. 27 School St. Chicago, 1ll. Andover, Mass. Absent. 235 Beacon St. Washington^. C. Raymond B. ...
Troy, NY - Page 370
NYRA Ward, Troy, NY Carl Wedt, Vienna, Austria. August Weismann, Freiburg, Germany. George M. Wheeler, Washington, DC William T. ...
more pages: 28
Tampa, Fla - Page 144
The other American representatives of the genus, A. auberiana d'Orb. and A. concinna CB Adams, do not extend north of Tampa, Fla. ...
Bridgeport, Conn - Page 156
The method of cultivation here is simply to clear the ground of " wrack " and " sludge " and plant " native " oysters (mostly from Bridgeport, Conn., ...
Quebec - Page 66
bordering southern Canada, or from Quebec, if indeed he got them from that region at all, though Kalm was a careful collector and would probably have ...
Albion, NY - Page 20
Lloyd mycological museum, Cincinnati; Mineral collector, New York; The museum, Albion, NY ; Natural history association of Mira- michi, Chatham, N. ...
Sitka, Alaska - Page 288
His reply was long in coming to Europe, and, on arriving at last, it was dated Sitka, Alaska, where Mr. Gilbert had gone as a member of the Harriman ...
Guadalajara - Page 99
3031, coll. between Bolanos and Guadalajara, and no. 3700 coll. at Bolafios. This typical form is connected by variegated transitions with a forma ...
Chapel Hill, NC - Page 380
Chapel Hill, NC Absent. Ifuxbury. Anlmrndale. Cambridge Harvard Medical School. Mass, Inst of Technology. Cambridge. Brookline. Cambridge. Cambridge. ...
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New Bedford, Mass - Page 80
New Bedford, Mass., Hough; Montgomery Co., Pa., CW Johnson. Length 3 mm., length of wing 5 mm. Brown black, mostly gray pollinose, with wholly yellow ...
Montreal - Page 66
Kalm did his collecting in northern Vermont, along Lake Champlain, and from Montreal to Quebec. He apparently makes no mention of this snake, ...
Haverford, Pa - Page 269
Most of the material was obtained in Germany, but a portion of it came from the vicinity of Cambridge, Mass:, and of Haverford, Pa. ...
Opelousas, La - Page 84
I have numerous specimens, of both sexes, from New Bedford, Mass., Tifton, Ga., and Opelousas, La. 10. Males 11 11. Eyes not in contact, ...
Grenoble - Page 302
have been diverted by the subsequent growth of the main longitudinal valley — that northeast-southwest part known as the Gr&ivandan — above Grenoble. ...
Pasadena - Page 20
Wintertlmr ; Ottawa literary and scientific society, Ottawa ; Pasadena academy of sciences, Pasadena; Queensland agricultural journal, Brisbane;.
Clinton, NY - Page 34
Clinton, NY South Natick. Salem. Jamaica Plain. Roxbury.. 15 Causeway St. Cambridge. Absent. Absent. 294 Marlborough St. Masonic Temple. Cambridge. ...
London - Page 21
the royal society of London, could not be considered by the Committee, as in all cases the memoirs are to be based upon original and unpublished work. ...
Ottawa - Page 20
Wintertlmr ; Ottawa literary and scientific society, Ottawa ; Pasadena academy of sciences, Pasadena; Queensland agricultural journal, Brisbane;.
Philadelphia, Pa - Page 368
Philadelphia, Pa. Washington, DC Henry Davis, William Boyd Dawkins, William Dean, Anton Dohrn, Sanford B. Dole, Henry E. Dresser, Paul B. ...
Durham, NH - Page 37
Durham, NH 400 Beacon St. 3I!0 Washington St. 6 Commonwealth Ave. North Chatham. 45 Commonwealth Ave. 170 Commonwealth Ave. Mass. Inst. of Technology. ...
Portland, Me - Page 27
Portland, Me. Liege, Belgium. Oxford, Eng. Washington, DC Newport, RI Washington, DC Bonn, Germany. Washington, DC Heidelberg, Germany.
Newton, Mass - Page 70
observations made on frogs of this species at Newton, Mass., are of interest psychologically. Several frogs living in a certain small muddy poml in a ...
Concord, Mich - Page 34
Concord, Mich. Dorchester. t 'ambridge. West Newton. 190 Beacon St. Absent. Absent. Washington, DC 14 Louisburg Sq. Harvard Medical School. ...
San Jose - Page 96
723 ; Costa Rica, Prov. of San Jose', J. DounM Smith, no. 4871. A better knowledge of the type of this species will doubtless justify at least a ...
New Brunswick - Page 64
From the "White Mts. of NH and the Adirondacks of NY northward into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and possibly farther. ...
Colotlan - Page 99
2827, coll. between Colotlan and Bolafios, Jalisco. No morphological differences between the individuals with brown-purple flowers and those with ...
Andover, Mass - Page 373
Andover, Mass. Absent. 235 Beacon St. Washington^. C. Raymond B. Earle, Charles R. Eastman, Charles L. Edwards, Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. ...
Carthago - Page 104
6987, collected at San llafacl de Carthago, altitude 1500 m., 28 August, 1892, and an excellent drawing of a specimen collected at Mt. ...
Westchester, NY - Page 375
Westchester, NY Charles E. Inches. MD, Catherine I. Ireland, 386 Beacon St. Cambridge. John G. Jack, Marian C. Jackson, Robert T. Jackson, William D. ...
Cincinnati - Page 20
Lloyd mycological museum, Cincinnati; Mineral collector, New York; The museum, Albion, NY ; Natural history association of Mira- michi, Chatham, N. ...
Portsmouth, NH - Page 34
Portsmouth, NH Absent. South Framingham. Absent, Brookline. Cambridge. Absent. Bloomington, Ind. Concord, Mich. Dorchester. t 'ambridge. West Newton. ...
Newark, NJ - Page 368
Fouque, Newark, NJ Coalburg, W. Va. Chicago, 1ll. Vienna, Austria. Gill. Paris, France. M. Ganin, JT Gardner, Albert Gaudry, Archibald Geikie, ...
Marshall, Mo - Page 374
Marshall, Mo. Absent. 131 Mt. Vernon St. 51 Commonwealth Ave. 227 Newbury St. 665 Boylston St. 202 Purchase St. Cambridge. 72 Westland Ave. ...
Ibague - Page 97
—New Granada near Ibague and Contreras, l/tonboldt; in bushy under- growths and on savannas of the Rio Dagua, Cauca, altitude l.00o to l.800 m., ...
Claremont, NH - Page 373
274 Clarendon St. 15 Marlboro ugh St. Yellow Springs, Ohio. 65 Marlborough St. Jamaica Plain. Claremont, NH 113 Broad St. Absent. 37 Union Park.
Windsor, NS - Page 26
Windsor, NS Hanover, NH Rejkyavik, Iceland. Reading, Pa. Alleghany, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Melbourne, Viet. Hanover, NH Sun Francisco, Cal.
Tlapa - Page 102
Collected between Tlapa and Ayusinapa, Guerrero, Mexico, altitude 1380 to 1700 m., 13 December, 1894, EW Nelson, no. ...
Princeton, NJ - Page 30
Princeton, NJ Absent. Absent. Newton. 29 Marlborough St. Absent. Cambridge. Cambridge. 7U Kilby St. 277 Beacon St. Cambridge. 68 Devonshire St. ...
Madison, Wis - Page 110
EA Hirge of Madison, Wis., who has compared the form with the type specimens of M. Richard. The embryology of no member of the Sididae has been ...
Bozeman, Mont - Page 29
Bozeman, Mont. 51 Massachusetts Ave. Absent. 416 Marlborough St. 436 Marlborough St. 28 Slate St. Brookline. Harvard Medical School. Hyde Park. ...
Jacksonville, Fla - Page 25
Bailey, Frederictou, NBAS Baldwin, Jacksonville, Fla, Mariano Barceua, Mexico, Mex. A. Constantine Barry, Prairie du Sac, Wis. Charles E. ...
San Diego - Page 387
of any of its family, ranging from San Diego to Kadiak.1 South of Point Con- cepcion it is rare, at least inshore, being almost wholly replaced by P. ...
Providence, RI - Page 34
Absent. 294 Marlborough St. Masonic Temple. Cambridge. 9 Commonwealth Ave. 419 Washington St. Absent. Cambridge. Providence, RI Cambridge. Somerville. ...
St. Louis, Mo - Page 26
St. Louis, Mo. Wellington, NZ Philadelphia, Pa. London, Eng. Windsor, NS Hanover, NH Rejkyavik, Iceland. Reading, Pa. Alleghany, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. ...
Bloomington, Ind - Page 34
Bloomington, Ind. Concord, Mich. Dorchester. t 'ambridge. West Newton. 190 Beacon St. Absent. Absent. Washington, DC 14 Louisburg Sq. ...
Yellow Springs, Ohio - Page 378
Yellow Springs, Ohio. 3.1 Newbury St. •J8tl Marlborough St. Ludlow. Cambridge. Brooklme. :!1 State St. 380 Marlborough St. 2'29 Commonwealth Ave. ...
Hartford, Conn - Page 373
Hartford, Conn. Cambridge. 124 Beacon St. Cambridge. 1 Clarendon St. 33 Summer St. Harvard Medical School. Absent. 422 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge. ...
Ann Arbor, Mich - Page 375
Ann Arbor, Mich. 407 Massachusetts Ave. 180 Commonwealth Ave. Mrs. MM Kehew, Charles S. Kendall, Mrs. Caroline A. Kennard, George G. ...
Wilmington, Mass - Page 377
Wilmington, Mass. Jamaica Plain. 186 Devonshire St. 17 Joy St. Topsfleld. 63 Marlborough St. Cambridge. 106 Marlborough St. Absent. ...
San Antonio - Page 18
An account of the Apache festival of San Antonio. February 1, 1899. General meeting. Seventy-six persons present. Dr. RA Daly. ...
Cleveland, Ohio - Page 32
Cleveland, Ohio. 223 Newbury St. Belmont. 72 Pinckney St. Mattapan. 99 St. Botolph St. Stouybrook. 280 Commonwealth Ave. Newton Highlands. ...
Zurich - Page 97
Herb. Boiss., 4, 480. — Near Castaiial, US Colombia, Sonntay, no. 3, June, 1888. Type in herb. Univ. of Zurich ; a head and sketch in herb. Gray.
Artisia - Page 15
upon several species of the genus Artisia, particularly upon Artisia distans, figured by Grand 'Eury in Flore Carbonifere de la Loire. ...
Ishikawa - Page 126
Rcichcnbach in his work upon Astacus and Ishikawa in his work on Atyephira both find this gland of ectodermal origin and the mesoderm plays no part in ...
Honolulu - Page 7
CM Cooke, Jr., of Honolulu, making in all about thirty thousand shells of this family at present available for study. ...
Naples - Page 421
The only notable points of difference between the Puget Sound specimens and those from Naples are the vastly greater size — at least eight times as ...
Brisbane - Page 20
Wintertlmr ; Ottawa literary and scientific society, Ottawa ; Pasadena academy of sciences, Pasadena; Queensland agricultural journal, Brisbane;.
Wien - Page 21
Twenty-five volumes of the Verhandlungen zoologisch-botanische gesellschaft, Wien, have been indexed; current volumes of serials previously indexed ...