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Jelly-fish, star-fish, and sea urchins. : Being a research on primitive nervous systems
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Jelly-fish, star-fish, and sea urchins. : Being a research on primitive nervous systems
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"Among the most beautiful, as well as the most common, of the marine animals which are to be met with upon our coasts are the jelly-fish and the starfish. Scarcely any one is so devoid of the instincts either of the artist or of the naturalist as not to have watched these animals with blended emotions of the aesthetic and the scientific--feeling the beauty while wondering at the organization. How many of us who live for most of the year in the fog and dust of large towns enjoy with the greater zest our summer's holiday at the seaside? And in the memories of most of us is there not associated with the picture of breaking waves and sea-birds floating indifferently in the blue sky or on the water still more blue, the thoughts of many a ramble among the weedy rocks and living pools, where for the time being we all become naturalists, and where those who least know what they are likely to find in their search are most likely to approach the keen happiness of childhood? If so, the image of the red sea-stars bespangling a mile of shining sand, or decorating the darkness of a thousand grottoes, must be joined with the image, no less vivid, of those crystal globes pulsating with life and gleaming with all the colours of the rainbow, which are perhaps the most strange, and certainly in my estimation the most delicately lovely creatures in the world"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
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Dusa, Fish, Stars & Vi: Dusa, Fish, Stars & VI Research
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The collection consists of copies of scripts for plays performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Calif., and at its other theaters, including The Improvisational Theatre, New Theatre for Now, and The Lab. New scripts are added to the collection at the conclusion of each season.
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Sceptical essays
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"This volume beings with an essay on 'The Value of Scepticism,' and all its seventeen essays have this in common, that they advocate a considerable degree of scepticism. The earlier essays give in popular form scientific and philosophical reasons for an undogmatic attitude in all departments of knowledge. Then there is a group of essays setting out the moral and ethical advantages of a realization that our beliefs are all subject to error. The third group applies scepticism to politics; while the last essay in the volume suggests--though with due scepticism--certain things likely to happen in politics, economics, family life, art, and literature, if our industrial society develops without a cataclysm"--From dust jacket.
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Santa Monica Sea Food Co
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Image of the Santa Monica Sea Food Company wholesale and retail store on the Santa Monica Municipal Pier in Santa Monica, California. Signs painted on the building read "Santa Monica Sea Food Co. Wholesale and Retail, All Kinds of Sea Food," and "Finest in Sea Food for your Eating Pleasure." The building next door reads "The Tides."
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Dana - Heights ; San Juan By-The-Sea
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A beautiful lithograph for real estate promotional purposes, all the symbols of wildlife by the sea. Cartouche: Deer, game, with sailing vessels in the background. Submap: Southern California. MS note: 299229. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: shaded. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Dusa, Fish, Stars & Vi: Dusa, Fish … Notes
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The collection consists of copies of scripts for plays performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Calif., and at its other theaters, including The Improvisational Theatre, New Theatre for Now, and The Lab. New scripts are added to the collection at the conclusion of each season.
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