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Casa Grande is an Indian ruin of undetermined antiquity situated in Pinal County, southern Arizona, a little more than a mile from the left bank of the Gila River. It lies twelve miles from Florence and about eighteen miles from the Casa Grande station on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Casa Grande was given its name about 1694 by its discoverer, the celebrated Jesuit, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, and has been repeatedly described and figured since that zealous and intrepid pioneer made his missionary trips across the deserts of southern Arizona. This great house is the most important ruin of its type in the Southwest, and as such has strong claims for archeological study, repair, and permanent preservation. It has a peculiar fascination for the archeologist on account of its age and also because of the incompleteness of our knowledge of the ancient inhabitants of the Gila Valley. The main building and its surrounding mounds, when considered together, may be called the Casa Grande group of ruins. Very little
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The first part of this paper deals with the general geology and geography of the region from which the Cretaceous fishes of Ceara come, while the second part is a systematic description of the fishes themselves. The collection is especially important because it contains all of the species hitherto described from Ceara, besides three new genera and four new species. The large number of duplicate...
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By doctor E. MASCHA [The following paper on the " Structure of Wing-Feathers " gives an account of an investigation conducted by Doctor E. Mascha under the direction of Professor R. von Lendenfeld, of the Imperial German University in Prague. The original German text of this paper is to be published in the Zcitschrift fiir zvisscnschaftUchc Zoologic. Doctor von Lendenfeld, who was a competitor ...
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PURPOSE OF THE PAPER The quantitative investigation of the relationship between the amount of water vapor in the terrestrial atmosphere and the corresponding changes in the transmissibility of the latter to the incoming solar energy, is the primary object of this paper. Bouguer's formula, which will later be treated in detail, furnishes an analytical means for this study. As generally used, how...
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While engaged in the study of the Tertiary fauna of Coos Bay, Oregon, it became necessary for me to investigate the systematic position of certain forms of Volutes which were contained in it. Their relations to certain Upper Cretaceous forms had been assumed and they had even been referred to the same genus. An investigation of the question was made possible by the kindness of Dr. T. W. Stanton...
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