Essays on Museums and Other Subjects Connected with Natural History, by Sir William Henry FlowerMacmillan, 1898 - 394 pages |
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Page 29 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 292 - ... there came upon them some dwarfish men, under the middle height, who seized them and carried them off. The Nasamonians could not understand a word of their language, nor had they any acquaintance with the language of the Nasamonians. They were led across extensive marshes, and finally came to a town, where all the men were of the height of their conductors, and black-complexioned. A great river flowed by the town, running from west to east, and containing crocodiles.
Page 367 - With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general. By RICHARD OWEN, FRS, &c.
Page 27 - Moreover, looking at the question from the other side, we find in animals complex organs of sense, richly supplied with nerves, but the function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight...
Page 290 - So when inclement winters vex the plain With piercing frosts, or thick-descending rain, To warmer seas the cranes embodied fly, With noise, and order, through the midway sky; To pigmy nations wounds and death they bring, And all the war descends upon the wing.
Page 336 - ... eyes seemingly starting out of the sockets from the great pressure ; but, on the contrary, when the thongs were loosened and the pads removed, I have noticed them cry until they were replaced. From the apparent...
Page 272 - The fisher castes of Bauri, Bind, and Kewat are a trifle higher in the scale ; the pastoral Goala, the cultivating Kurmi, and a group of cognate castes — from whose hands a Brahman may take water — follow in due order ; and from them we pass to the trading Khatris, the landholding Babhans, and the upper crust of Hindu society. Thus, it is scarcely a paradox to lay down as a law of the caste organisation in Eastern India that a man's social status varies in inverse ratio to the width of his nose.
Page 57 - A museum to be useful and reputable must be constantly engaged in aggressive work either in education or investigation, or in both.
Page 362 - Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man.