Anniversary memoirs of the Boston society of natural history
Subtitle: pub. in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Society's foundation.  1830-1880.
Publisher: The Society
Published: 1880
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
Subjects: Natural history; Indians of North America -- Craniology
Table of contents: title: Propositions concerning the classification of Lavas considered with reference to the circumstances of their extrusions -- N.S. Shaler; title: Genesis and evolution of the species of Planorbis at Steinheim -- Alpheus Hyatt; title: The Devonian Insects of New Brunswick; with a note on the geological relations of the fossil insects from the Devonian of New Brunswick -- Samuel H. Scudder; title: The Gymnosporangia (cedar-apples) of the United States -- W.G. Farlow; title: A new structural feature, hitherto unknown among Echinodermata, found in deep-sea Ophiurans -- Theodore Lyman; title: The development of the squid, Loligo pealii lesueur -- W.K. Brooks; title: The anatomy, histology, and embryology of Limulus polyphemus -- A. S. Packard, Jr.; title: Contributions to the anatomy of the milk-weed butterfly, Danais archippus Fabr. -- Edward Burgess; title: The development of a double-headed vertebrate -- Samuel F. Clarke; title: Studies on the tongue of reptiles and birds -- Charles Sedgewick Minot; title: On the identity of the ascending process of the astragalus in birds with the intermedium -- Edward S. Morse; title: The crania of New England Indians -- Lucien Carr; title: The feeling of effort -- William James.