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Notes on fishes observed about Pensacola, Florida, and Galveston, Texas, with description of new species.This paper provides an annotated list of 131 marine fishes recorded from Galveston, Texas and Pensacola, Florida, by David S. Jordan in March 1882. The list contains 47 species previously not reported from the Gulf coast of the United States, including 21 taxa that are described as new.
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Notas sobre la industria de la pesca en la provincia de Buenos Aires (Excursión de setiembre a octubre de 1895).Notas sobre las condiciones de la pesca, economía pesquera y comentarios adiciones durante la excursión realizada por Lahille durante setiembre a octubre de 1895, a localidades marítimas y cuerpos de agua dulce de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
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Faunas locales argentinas. I. Lista de los pescados recogidos en los alrededores de La Plata (prov. de Bs. As.), durante el año 1894 y conservados en las colecciones del Museo de La Plata.Publicación de la lista de materiales depositados en la Colección de la Sección Zoológica del Museo de La Plata y sus localidades. (PDF tiene 13 paginas.)
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Morenitas y ratonas.En aguas dulces del Centro y Sud América se encuentran los gimnótidos, familia de peces estrictamente acantonados en esa zona.De las treinta especies que la constituyen, doce se ecuentran en Manaos o alrededores, siendo nuestro Río de la Plata el límite sur de la distribución de este singular grupo. (PDF tiene 12 paginas.)
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Description of a new genus and species of hummingbird from PanamaSince January, 1911, Mr. E. A. Goldman, of the Biological Survey, U.S.Department of Agriculture, has been detailed to the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone to collect mammals and birds in the Canal Zone and adjacent parts of Panama... (Document contains 4 pages)
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The Panama Canal Zone: an epochal event in sanitationAn account of events of the Panama Canal Zone in 1911 by the author, C.F. Adams. (38 page document)
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Two new subspecies of birds from PanamaWhile working on the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Canal Zone, Mr. E. A. Goldman of the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, collected specimens of two undescribed subspecies of birds which are characterized below. (Document contains 3 pages)
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A new Kingfisher from PanamaAmong the birds obtained in the course of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of Panama are 28 kingfishers of the Ceryle americana group. Comparison of this large series, and examination of the birds from numerous localities in northern South America and within the wide distribution area (Panama to southern United States) originally assigned to Ceryle septentrionalis Sharpe, show that two well-marked races have been united under this name...(Document contains 4 pages)
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A Remarkable new fern from PanamaToward the last of February, 1911, in the course of fieldwork connected with the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, I accompanied Mr. Henry Pittier from the Canal Zone, where our work had been carried on up to that time, to Chiriqui, the westernmost province of Panama, and spent nearly all of March in collecting plants--mainly ferns and lower cryptogams--in the mountains north of David, the principal city of the province...(Document contains 10 pages)
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Biological survey of the Panama Canal Zoneexhaustive biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone-will be undertaken in the winter of 1910-11. A part of the fresh-water streams of the Isthmus of Panama empty into the Atlantic Ocean and others into the Pacific Ocean. It is known that a certain number of animals and plants in the streams on the Atlantic side are different from those of the Pacific side, but as no exact biological survey has ever been undertaken the extent and magnitude of these differences have yet to be learned. When the canal is completed the organisms of the various watersheds will be offered a ready means of mingling together, the natural distinctions now existing will be obliterated....
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Alexander Agassiz, 1835-1910Biography with photograph
