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Peonies, bulbs and hardy plants
CANARL (Cnerin, 18617 Late midseason. Bonb type. Guard
petals white, Mushed with pink. center deep primrase yollow.
Fragrant…
FRAGRANS. 1. Banks, 18055 Romb type. Very late:
rosepink | L, stTong grower: very free hloomer, (e
of the hest late pink for…
BABCOCK PEONY GARDEN
S,
JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK
Lilae white shading 10 pale violet in (he center, In the cast
and o the south…
MARQUIS C. LAGERGREN.
= (Dessert, 1911). Targe, hright,
velvety-erimson @
very Drilliant and showy switl lstinet sil-
very…
BABCOCK PEONY
SARAH BERNHARDT
REINE HORTENSE. (Cualol, 1857), Fery lirRe. contpact,
sgmi-tose tyjic. Here truly ul flower…
BABCOCK PEONY GARDENS, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK
New Japanese and Choice Single Peonies
large single eup-shaped
Targe
(Jap). e…
BARGAIN COLLECTION A.
We are [ifting and dividing nne of onr fields of Ieonics Tiag
we Tave heen growing for cut Howers, Thex…
ALICE KNIGHTS. White trumpel. White perianth wilh
slightly twisted petils: ercamy whi trmnpet, slightly re-
curving sl…
BABCOCK PEONY GARDENS, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK
SILVER PHOENIX SULPHUR PHOENIX. Doulile with very large, open mouth, flanged al…
55 SHBUCRHIUKWA, Crimson-purple, with large while veins
and center.
60 KAGARIBL Silvery-white, traced and marbled ultra-…
BABCOCK PEONY GARDENS, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK
JAPONICUM LONGIFLORUM. The hanly X lily. TIGRINUM SPLENDENS. The old-fashionel…
FORMOSUM. A wmost brilliant deep hlny, e sinest hlge
fHower knowt among wur hanly plants. Fhice to ioie feet
Blooms from June…
JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK
ered with exquisite pure white double Howers, resembling
daisies, which remain in blaom for weeks. The…
The natural history of dogs : Canidae or genus Canis of authors ; including also the genera Hyaena and Proteles / by Lieut. Col…
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MEMOIR OF PALLAS
Chronological List of some of W
INTRODECTION o
Tug CANINE FAMILY IN GENERAL
The Diurnal…
xii CONTENTS,
The Caygotte of Mexico,
Iyeiscus cagattis, Plate VI, R
Section IIL Chryseus.—The Red Dags
The True Dhole.…
CONTENTS,
The Kokree.
Cymalopex kokree . . . 5
Falvons-tailed Dog-Fox.
Cynalopex chrysurus . .
The Pale Dog-Fox.…
xiv CONTENTS,
Crabodago Aguara Fox, PAGE
Cerdocyon Azara. Plate XXIX. . . 264
Magellanic Aguara Tox,
Cordocyon Magellamicus…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
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Juvat integros accedere fontes
Atque haurire, juvatque novos decerpere flores.
Lucrets de Nat. Rer, bib.…
18 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
¢ When a man,” says Baron Cuvier, “ devotes
Lis whole life to science; when entirely occupied
in making…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 19
me to make his Eloge a kind of ¢ table of contents,’
for which T must erave the indulgence of wy audi-…
20 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
in the subsequent history of Pallas; and its great
utility fo every student of science is so manifest,…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 21
and physics, and also improved his acquaintance
with mineralogy, in the environs of that city.
In the…
22 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
mentioned above as composed at Gottingen. This
Thesis seems to have been his first work, and was…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 23
employ the greater part of the night, and ocea-
sionally even whole nights together, in devouring
some…
24 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
to allow him to go and settle in Holland. Thither
accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the…
MEMCIR OF PALLAS: 25
sua genera accurate dofinit, speciesque® In its com-
position he availed himself of all that had Leen…
26 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
synonyms of authors fo his specics, was quite
remarkable for an author of iwenty-five years of
age, and…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. b7/
teen plates, as its title Miscellania Zvologica would
lead us to infer, a great variety of subjects arc…
28 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
one has reecived a more detailed description. - The
next animal of which he gives an account is the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 29
sent stands as the Phasiocharus Africanus of syste-
matists, I shall now,” eays he, “ deseribe a new…
30 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
We must not stay to make any remark on his de-
seription of a crane, his G'rus crepitans, the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 31
length on the Anomim, Serpule, the Nercides and
Aphroditee, the Echiuree, Lumbrici, and Hydatids.…
32 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
see how often progress is arrested by the slightest
circamstance, The most astonishing thing of all is…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 33
offered to undertake and superintend. This project
was strongly recommended by Gaubivs and ap-
proved…
34 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
with what we have designated a Monograph of
Antclopes. Here the general description is some-
what…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 35
French government despatched the Abbé Chappe
' Auteroche to Tobolsk to make the required ob-…
36 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
cians, and of a great number of assistants, whose
services were o he devoted to the several objects of…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 37
pearances, and excited an interest which has since
yielded an abundant harvest.*
Our Naturalist set off…
38 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
crossed the Altaisk mountains, followed the course
of the Irtish as far as Kolivan, where he inspected…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 39
Retracing his steps, after having passed a second
winter at Krasnoyarsk, our traveller returned in
1770…
40 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
the character of these “ Travels;” and whilst some
have conferred on them the highest enlogiums, more…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. ’ 41
favourable. Long winters of six months duration,
spent in a miscrable cabin, with black bread and…
42 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
have been most flattering to me; and I can affirm
that the only knowledge T have of them is from their…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 43
the Volga was so far clearcd that two-thirds of its
bed was free of ice. The north wind which pre-…
44 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
tic birds had arrived. I have remarked, that not
only in these countries, but generally throughout…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 45
firs, and varted by hills and rich meadows., Few
countries more descrve to be peopled. It abounds
in…
46 MEMOIR OF PALTAS,
documents usually arc. And now we may venture
to add, that with scarccly an cxeeption, there was
not a…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 47
could not be read but with the decpest interest.
He descants largely on salt lakes and mines, on…
43 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
five quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, wormns,
and plants which he had examined with care,…
MEMOTR OF PALLAS. 49
In the valleys, where the soil is half sand and half
clay, it is still frozen, at the closc of smmmer,…
50 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
being trained. A Kirguis will often give a first-
rate horse for an eagle of good breed, whilst he will…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. a1
they are dead. W are not, however, to conclude
that this bird swims, since it has not the necessary…
52 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
to Cuvier, no antinal, cven the eommionest among
oursclves, are so well known. He alzo ntroduced to…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 53
In 1781, he began a work which he meant parti-
cularly to dedicate to the insects of Russia (Jfeones…
54 MEMOIR OF PALLAS,
stop to those most important publications, when
the new government has no immediate interest in
them.…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 3
135.) Pallas laboured at it till his last days, and
lad completed the manuscript, including all the…
56 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
purchaser, at the same time desiring him to make
out the catalogue and fix the price. Ie accordingly…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 57
Tastly, limestone strata tlie most external. ¢ It may
be stated,” says Cuvier, “ that this great fact,…
58 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
the world has ever seen. China, India, Persia, and
the whole of Tartary, were neeessarily subjected to…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 59
thereby subjects himself to much trouble and vexa-
tion. We cannot convey a better idea of those…
60 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
and government, but devotes a large portion of his
work to an account of their religion, which is truly…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 61
woman and a sovereign did not happen to make the
hest possible seleetion, nor act with as correct views…
2 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
travelling, like that of a savage life, made him
impatient of a stated residence in a city.
Lqually…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 63
and in English in 1802. The plan pursued, and
the style of these volumes, are very similar to those
of…
64 MEMOTR OF PALLAS,
to the Crimea or ancient Tawrica, that singular
peninsula, which is flat and arid oy the side next
the…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 65
to great cold, with very insufficient covering. This
accident produced pains, which he hoped the mild…
66 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
disappointment :—*“ Were this the proper place to
inform my readers of the disquietude and hardships…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 67
to those of our own country, and for every literary
communication it was in his power to supply.
When…
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phy. We used every endeavour to prevail upon
him to quit the country and accompany us to Yng-
land;…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 69
fectly into his solitude: his calmed mind now re-
vived prodigiously under all these gratifications and…
70 MEMOIR OF PALLAS.
science. Besides, he had never borrowed from others
without rendering them explicit justice.
Thus…
MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 71
Baron Wimpfen, Hentenant-general in the Russian
service, who died at Lunéville in consequence of
wounds…
APPENDIX
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
OF SOME OF
THE WORKS OF PALLAS.
[The reader will please to remember, that we do not give the…
APPENDIX. 7h
seen it noted that he sent three, The only
on¢ we have met is on the Siena juce
ladrix, Thomson’s Hist. Royal…
74 APPENDIX.
the Count Lacépéde, 1788 ; and the other
in 8 vols. 8vo. and onc of plates, with
Notes by Lamarck and Longles,…
APPENDIX. b
1777. Obs. circa Myrmecophagum Afric. et Didel-
phidis novam speciem orientalem. Part 11
1777. Descripiion dw…
76 APPENDIX.
1781. Sorices Aliquot illustrati. Sorex moschalus
ot 8. myosurus . Labulis. Act, Petr.
1781. New Noviliern…
INTRODUCTION.
WHEN the interest attached to the higher orders of
the brute creation is brought in review for the pur-
pose…
78 INTRODUCTION,
Tt may indeed be conceded, that in the social con-
dition of nations long congregated and civilized,…
INTRODUCTION, 79
differ only in their mode of acknowledgment, from
the expressions of favour with which the drover,
the…
30 INTRODUCTION.
horse, were compeiled to accept his yoke; aud,
finally, when, with the samc assistance, the wild
boar was…
INTRODUCTION, al
thus carly an object of decp felt interest, we are
naturally led to ask the question of whence dog…
82 INTRODUCTION.
admitted the wolf and the jackal to be constituents
of his genus Canis ; but it does not appear that he…
INTRODUGTION, 83
many plants are found in a wild state that man
appears to have carricd with him in his devious
migrations…
84 INTRODUCTION.
Australia ; there is, besides, a half reclaimed race
among the Indians of North America, and another…
INTRODUCTION, 85
sive generations, of looking forwards to their master
and obeying his voice.”
This extract, taken from the…