Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 4 |
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... positive addition to human knowledge , resting on original research ; and all unverified specula- tions to be rejected . 4. Each memoir presented to the Institution to be submitted for examination to a commission of persons of ...
... positive addition to human knowledge , resting on original research ; and all unverified specula- tions to be rejected . 4. Each memoir presented to the Institution to be submitted for examination to a commission of persons of ...
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... positive information should be obtained as to the nation or tribe to which a particular skull belongs . This may frequently be learned from the history of the migrations of the tribe , or from the character of the ornaments and utensils ...
... positive information should be obtained as to the nation or tribe to which a particular skull belongs . This may frequently be learned from the history of the migrations of the tribe , or from the character of the ornaments and utensils ...
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... positive atmospheric electricity , of temperature , and of relative humidity , in 1861 , 1862 , and 1863 , at St. Louis , Missouri , based upon daily observations at 6 , 9 , 12 , 3 , 6 , and 9 o'clock . Published in the St. Louis ...
... positive atmospheric electricity , of temperature , and of relative humidity , in 1861 , 1862 , and 1863 , at St. Louis , Missouri , based upon daily observations at 6 , 9 , 12 , 3 , 6 , and 9 o'clock . Published in the St. Louis ...
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... positively and negatively . We shall be happy , as soon as you may fix on cutting some slices off the block , to receive a bit from you for our Imperial Mineralogical Museum of the Ainsa Tucson too . With all the most cordial wishes ...
... positively and negatively . We shall be happy , as soon as you may fix on cutting some slices off the block , to receive a bit from you for our Imperial Mineralogical Museum of the Ainsa Tucson too . With all the most cordial wishes ...
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... positive testimony in favor of such descent is equally demonstrable , although not by so direct an argument . There is here no theoretic impediment in the way , but a practical one . It might be hoped that traces of an original unity ...
... positive testimony in favor of such descent is equally demonstrable , although not by so direct an argument . There is here no theoretic impediment in the way , but a practical one . It might be hoped that traces of an original unity ...
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