Biographical Memoirs, Volume 17National Academy of Sciences, 1924 - Scientists List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings... Index... 1915-24, 1926. |
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... fossil insects is due to Scudder's painstaking examination and description of the most minute details of structure exhibited by these forms . A strange contrast there was between the two pupils of Agassiz , Scudder and Hyatt ; for ...
... fossil insects is due to Scudder's painstaking examination and description of the most minute details of structure exhibited by these forms . A strange contrast there was between the two pupils of Agassiz , Scudder and Hyatt ; for ...
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... fossil insects , and no more fortunate choice of a specialist to study these could have been made than that of Scudder who remained attached to the staff of the survey as paleontologist from January 1 , 1886 , to July 31 , 1892 . Not ...
... fossil insects , and no more fortunate choice of a specialist to study these could have been made than that of Scudder who remained attached to the staff of the survey as paleontologist from January 1 , 1886 , to July 31 , 1892 . Not ...
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... fossil forms . Yet such a brief summary gives a wholly imperfect idea of the wide scope of his interests , much less of the sunny charm of his more popular writings which always seemed to have caught the generous cheer of a June day of ...
... fossil forms . Yet such a brief summary gives a wholly imperfect idea of the wide scope of his interests , much less of the sunny charm of his more popular writings which always seemed to have caught the generous cheer of a June day of ...
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... fossil centipede , but later , upon discovering that the specimen was more probably part of a fern leaf , he told his friends that it should be called " Tricky " ulus . His work upon fossil insects was of the pioneer sort and thus much ...
... fossil centipede , but later , upon discovering that the specimen was more probably part of a fern leaf , he told his friends that it should be called " Tricky " ulus . His work upon fossil insects was of the pioneer sort and thus much ...
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... , 1865. 12 p . 29. Revision of the hitherto known species of the genus Chionobas in North America . Proc . Entomological Soc . of Phil . , 1865 , v . 5 , pp . 1-28 , il . 30. On the fossil insects from Illinois , the Miamia 87.
... , 1865. 12 p . 29. Revision of the hitherto known species of the genus Chionobas in North America . Proc . Entomological Soc . of Phil . , 1865 , v . 5 , pp . 1-28 , il . 30. On the fossil insects from Illinois , the Miamia 87.
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