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22 products
S.S. Haldeman
Contents of a Rock Retreat in Southeastern Pennsylvania
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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
Michael Chenoweth
18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
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Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superior to most of his contemporaries & provide a high-quality daily record of more than 35 years. Comparison of his records with modern weather records indicates that Thistlewood's Jamaica was a much cooler & moister place than in modern times. A 252-year record of tropical storm & hurricane frequency in Jamaica reveals that the late 20th-century minimum in storm frequency is unprecedented.
Gerald Greenfield
Realities of Images
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In Feb. 1877, a letter from the county council of Telha, a town of 600 people located in the Serra da Mattos in Brazil reported that people were dying from starvation. The previous year's rainy season had been sparse, and the harvest, poor. Now, this season's rains still had not appeared. This was the Great Drought -- three years of failed rains enshrined in Brazilian memory as the worst drought ever to hit Brazil's northeast. Drought had visited the region throughout its history, with the earliest recorded occurrences dating back to the 16th century. The failure of rains in 1877 was devastating, for it caught the provinces of the north totally unprepared. The specter of periodic droughts producing dislocation and death continues to haunt the region.
Ralph W. Chaney
Revision of Fossil Sequoia and Taxodium in Western North America Based on the Recent Discovery of Metasequoia
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The recently discovered redwood of China, “Metasequoia glyptostroboides” Hu & Cheng, shows close relationship to two North American trees, the coast redwood, “Sequoia sempervirens” Endlicher of the western U.S., & the swamp cypress, “Taxodium distichum” Richard of the Southeastern U.S. Foliage & cones of these living trees provide characters by which the three genera may be readily distinguished. But for nearly a century there has been confusion in the recognition of fossil specimens. The author is now able to distinguish the fossil foliage & cones of all three genera, & to assign to Metasequoia many specimens which have previously been identified as Sequoia & Taxodium. Illustrations.
William Berryman Scott, Glenn Lowell Jepsen and Albert Elmer Wood
The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part III. Lagomorpha
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
R.A. Donkin
Ethnogeographical Study of Cochineal and the Opuntia Cactus
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This is a print on demand publication; it is not an original.
Sue Ann Prince
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge
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The Curatorial Department of the American Philosophical Society presents a catalogue of the exhibition held in Philosophical Hall from June 2003 through December 2004. The exhibit focuses on the blending of art and science in the study of natural history in North America. It explores the cultural assumptions that governed the practice of natural history on the North American continent in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Focusing on the study of living things -- plants, animals, and indigenous peoples -- it looks at how and why Euro-Americans of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods went about explaining the world the way they did. Exhibit items include historical specimens, manuscript materials, first-edition books, and art work.
Sue Ann Prince
Of Elephants & Roses
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This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue for an international loan exhibition held in 2011 at the APS Museum in Philadelphia and the record of an associated interdisciplinary symposium held at the American Philosophical Society (APS) on December 1-3, 2011. The essays, commentaries, and discussions present new perspectives on French natural history, its influence on French culture, and its ties to the natural sciences in North America. Contributors include art historians, historians of science, and scholars of French literature, history, and culture. Illus.
Jon E. Kalb
Fossil Elephantoids
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This is a print on demand publication. From 1975-1978, the Rift Valley Research Mission in Ethiopia recovered the most diverse collection of elephantoids known from a single area, from the Middle Awash Valley in the southwestern Afar Depression. This report describes in detail the elephantoids from the middle Awash region, from the pre-Hadar Adu-Asa & Sagantole formations to the post-Hadar Matabaietu & Wehaietu formations. It also reports on the fossil elephants from the Hadar Formation itself & notes elephantoids collected from deposits north of Hadar & south of the Middle Awash (the Chorora region). Also, this study describes the relationships of the Awash “Anancus” to other “Anancus” in Africa, & to other late surviving “gomphotheres.” Extensive illustrations.
Everett C. Olson
Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.
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Slowly, over more than a century & a quarter, the history of Permian terrestrial vertebrates has been pieced together by discovery & study of fossil-bearing strata in all of the continents except Australia & Antarctica. The decade of the 1950s has been exciting from the standpoint of new discoveries both in North America & abroad. New finds have gone far toward bridging the gaps between the lower & upper Permian & have presented new & quite revolutionary data on the distribution of Permian terrestrial faunas. Contents of this study: Introduction; Systematics; Geology; Interpretations; & Evolution. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Steven E. Fields
Ground Sloth
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“Megalonyx” is one of the most widely distributed taxa of ground sloths in North America. Numerous Pleistocene sites contain isolated fossil elements. However, most fossils are of late Rancholabrean age, and relatively few “Megalonyx” fossils have been found in the southeastern United States outside of Florida. This work is unique because it describes more than 250 fossil elements from a single site of Irvingtonian age in South Carolina. It also includes detailed measurements of all teeth and postcranial elements. Morphometrics offers insights into hypsodonty and body mass, and comparisons with other “Megalonyx” across space and time suggest a need to revisit the current taxonomy. Illustrations.
Joseph Ewan
John Lyon, Nurseryman and Plant Hunter, and His Journal, 1799-1814
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Illustrations and maps.
Edward D. Cope
Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America
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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
E. C. Case
Census of the Determinable Genera of the Stegocephalia
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Over 180 illustrations.
George H. Horn
Revision of the Tenebrionidae of America, North of Mexico
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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
H. C. Wood, Jr.
Myriapoda of North America
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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
William B. Scott
Mammalia of the Duchesne River Oligocene
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Albert E. Wood
Early Tertiary Rodents of the Family Paramyidae
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. 91 figures.
Philip R. Bjork
Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho
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Albert E. Sanders
A Late Cretaceous Dinosaur & Reptile Assemblage from South Carolina, USA
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Describes a new assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile remains from Campanian and Maastrichtian deposits of eastern South Carolina (SC). Six of the 14 localities include new occurrences of theropod and hadrosaur dinosaurs, substantially increasing the known localities in the eastern U.S. that have produced dinosaur remains. The important but seldom-mentioned role that SC played in the early history of studies of North Amer. Cretaceous deposits and faunas is outlined, and the stratigraphic settings of 14 localities are analyzed. Of the 6 localities where dinosaur bones were found, two yielded the majority -- Stokes Quarry, Darlington County, in the mid-Campanian Coachman Formation; and the late Campanian Donoho Creek Formation at Kingstree, Williamsburg County. Illus.
Carole C. Baldwin
Review of the Splendid Perches, Callanthias (Percoidei: Callanthiidae)
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The family Callanthiidae contains two genera, Callanthias (with seven species) and Grammatonotus (with six nominal species). Authors William D. Anderson, Jr., G. David Johnson, and Carole C. Baldwin provide characters that distinguish callanthiids from other percoids and that distinguish Callanthias from Grammatonotus, descriptions of Callanthias and its seven species, a key to the species of Callanthias, and comments on other aspects of the biology of the species of the genus. The authors’ initial interest in the splendid perches emanated not from their spectacular coloration but from specific features of their morphology and their bearing on possible relationships to other perciform fishes. Color illustrations.
Crawford H. Greenewalt
Flight of Birds. The Significant Dimensions, Their Departure from the Requirements for Dimensional Similarity, and the Effect on Flight Aerodynamics of that Departure
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This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find journal.
