The Nautilus, Vol. 32 PDF Download

Author: Henry A. Pilsbry
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282941499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Excerpt from The Nautilus, Vol. 32: July, 1918 Carnegie Desert Laboratory are live wires in the natural. Sciences. Also explorers. Exploring begets good health, and good health begets enthusiasm. Also, Arizona is apparently the head center of natural history, so many species in botany and zoology have their beginning here. By the way, a news paper reporter at Tucson gave us a reputation for the dis covery of 650 new species of snails in Arizona! In figures it is well to give out type-written copy to the press. Then no embarrassing apologies to university clubs will be needful. To eliminate a limp which interfered with snail-catching more and more, I went into a hospital at Tucson, and a month or two was taken out of this great vacation; but on the whole a large collection was made. With mules for the high desert ranges and a Ford for the smaller ones, one in the conva lescent stage may make a good showing. Some of the hills are only 150 feet in height, and with a level desert floor we could almost collect from the machine. At one point it was not more than ten feet from snails to Ford. We seldom walked ten miles in one day, for with the larger mountains and their long and rough mesas we could ride within a half-mile of the snails. Within the recent geologic period apparently there was a heavy rainfall (noah's perhaps), so heavy that the large boulders were thrown out upon both sides of the channel, and thus these gulches are often heavily diked on the lower lpes of the mountain. These dikes are often the best collecting grounds, especially in dry weather; the fortifications of_ five or six feet in depth and twenty wide are easily explored. To catch a live snail at home in some of the larger slides higher up, a steam shovel and a full equipment of quarrymen is needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.