Natural History, Volume 19American Museum of Natural History, 1919 |
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... beautiful and courageous aspect of his manifold . character and life as a naturalist . This memorial will be such as to remind the boys and girls of all future generations of Americans of the spirit of love , of zeal , and of ...
... beautiful and courageous aspect of his manifold . character and life as a naturalist . This memorial will be such as to remind the boys and girls of all future generations of Americans of the spirit of love , of zeal , and of ...
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... beautiful animals whose like is not known elsewhere ; and with others . even stranger that show both in form and temper something of the fantas- tic and the grotesque . It is a never- ending pleasure to gaze at the great herds of buck ...
... beautiful animals whose like is not known elsewhere ; and with others . even stranger that show both in form and temper something of the fantas- tic and the grotesque . It is a never- ending pleasure to gaze at the great herds of buck ...
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... beautiful than any built by the hand of man . " Roosevelt's initial work in conservation of natural resources , especially of forests , will go down in history as the greatest constructive legislation ever established by an executive in ...
... beautiful than any built by the hand of man . " Roosevelt's initial work in conservation of natural resources , especially of forests , will go down in history as the greatest constructive legislation ever established by an executive in ...
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... that the present generation should do all within its power to save the remnant of the wild life along our beautiful southern coast . Photograph by Alfred M. Bailey OUISIANA is so situated geo- graphically and has conditions L.
... that the present generation should do all within its power to save the remnant of the wild life along our beautiful southern coast . Photograph by Alfred M. Bailey OUISIANA is so situated geo- graphically and has conditions L.
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... beautiful birds with silver- pearl wings , eyes of piercing blackness , crests of jet , and dark bills tipped with yellow - truly little " doves " of the sea . These terns have been especially persecuted in the past by the feather ...
... beautiful birds with silver- pearl wings , eyes of piercing blackness , crests of jet , and dark bills tipped with yellow - truly little " doves " of the sea . These terns have been especially persecuted in the past by the feather ...
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Page 33 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 408 - Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go, search with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mid the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or, where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy theme.
Page 409 - Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline, intimate with the Indian character, customs and principles. Habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exuct observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed, honest, disinterested,...
Page 17 - Gifford Pinchot is the man to whom the nation owes most for what has been accomplished as regards the preservation of the natural resources of our country. He led, and indeed during its most vital period embodied, the fight for the preservation through use of our forests. He played one of the leading parts in the effort to make the National Government the chief instrument in developing the irrigation of the arid West. He was the foremost leader in the great struggle to coordinate all our social and...
Page 307 - In beauty I walk. With beauty before me, I walk. With beauty behind me, I walk. With beauty below me, I walk. With beauty above me, I walk. With beauty all around me, I walk. It is finished again in beauty, It is finished in beauty, It is finished in beauty, It is finished in beauty.
Page 410 - ... order and discipline; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves, - with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by...
Page 673 - Below are sixteen questions. Three answers are given to each question. You are to look at the answers carefully; then make a cross in the square before the best answer to each question, as in the sample: "Why do we use stoves? Because...
Page 301 - The Magpie ! The Magpie ! Here underneath In the white of his wings are the footsteps of morning.
Page 221 - The other apes, enjoying the fun, evidently wish to take a part in it ; but the other branches being too high, they form a sort of chain by laying hold of each other's paws, and thus swing backwards and forwards, while any one of them who comes within reach of the crocodile torments him to the best of his ability. Sometimes the terrible jaws suddenly close, but not upon the audacious ape, who just escapes ; then there are cries of exultation from the tormentors, who gambol about joyfully. Occasionally,...
Page 114 - This is a much greater act of hospitality than we have witnessed from any nation or tribe since we have passed the Rocky mountains, in short be it spoken to their immortal honor it is the only act which deserves the appellation of hospitallity which we have witnessed in this quarter.