Proceedings of the Essex Institute, Volumes 1-2Essex Institute, 1856 - Natural history |
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... lands , tenements , rents , and hereditaments , not exceeding in the whole the yearly value of two thousand dollars , exclusive of the building or buildings which may be actually occu- pied for the purposes of the said corporation ; and ...
... lands , tenements , rents , and hereditaments , not exceeding in the whole the yearly value of two thousand dollars , exclusive of the building or buildings which may be actually occu- pied for the purposes of the said corporation ; and ...
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... tomentosa , Scutellaria lateriflora , Ver- bena hastata . Two skulls of the Indian races , exhumed on the land of the " Mills " were presented to the Institute by Eben Sut- ton , Esq . , for which very acceptable present 14.
... tomentosa , Scutellaria lateriflora , Ver- bena hastata . Two skulls of the Indian races , exhumed on the land of the " Mills " were presented to the Institute by Eben Sut- ton , Esq . , for which very acceptable present 14.
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... land in rear of the village of Swampscot . Astarte castanea . Occasionally a specimen is found at Nahant beach . Astarte sulcata . * ( Young . ) Adult , single valves . Lynn harbor . Astarte quadrans . * Rather common . Cyprina ...
... land in rear of the village of Swampscot . Astarte castanea . Occasionally a specimen is found at Nahant beach . Astarte sulcata . * ( Young . ) Adult , single valves . Lynn harbor . Astarte quadrans . * Rather common . Cyprina ...
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... land , and eastward of the village of Swampscot . Limnæa columella . Limnæa macrostoma . Limnæa umbilicata . Limnæa elodes . tropha . In some of the ponds and in marshy lands at Swamp- scot . Occurs common , with Physa heteros- Ancylus ...
... land , and eastward of the village of Swampscot . Limnæa columella . Limnæa macrostoma . Limnæa umbilicata . Limnæa elodes . tropha . In some of the ponds and in marshy lands at Swamp- scot . Occurs common , with Physa heteros- Ancylus ...
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... . Southern species of Uniones , from C. S. Hale , of Mobile , Ala . A suite of the nonoperculated land shells of Jamaica , from Prof. C. B. Adams , of Amherst College . Shells from Zanzibar , by W. G. Webb . Shells and 51.
... . Southern species of Uniones , from C. S. Hale , of Mobile , Ala . A suite of the nonoperculated land shells of Jamaica , from Prof. C. B. Adams , of Amherst College . Shells from Zanzibar , by W. G. Webb . Shells and 51.
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