Described Sentence Examples

She described where it was.

So you've just described Josh.

The goal of our offered summer sojourn was described as a seasonal cabin on a small lake in near Wolfboro, New Hampshire.

Carmen described the help she needed and where they lived.

Howie described a car parked with an open trunk on the far side of the fence.

But if Brockville is just like Howie described, we have to get Quinn and Howie on the same page.

Later, Howie failed to locate a nebulously described address.

Mr. Cooms was apprehensive about what he described as an assault on our safety.

Dean didn't dare say he hadn't noticed and described the tall red head in general terms.

The way he described her, I don't think she paid much attention to the mundane things in life.

He changed into a clean shirt as he briefly described hearing the accident, climbing down to investigate and discovering Billy Langstrom's body.

Alex's expression could only be described as awed.

While she would never have described her parents as over-protective, their devotion to their children was never in doubt.

Cassie couldn't help but smile at the way Darcie described her fellow gender.

The bed Martha described as queen size was squeezed against the far wall.

Even if Brockville proved to be all he described, what would that tell us?

Howie described the car, license plate, and man in exacting detail.

While Howie hadn't viewed the show, he was incensed at the man's attitude as described by Martha.

Cynthia was on the office phone to New Jersey, doing "wedding things," as she described them.

Martha, the little girl who originally told us about them, described them differently from what Fitzgerald found.

This skin, with the skull and antlers, was sent to Paris, where it was described in 1866 by Professor Milne-Edwards.

Her only interruption was when Dean described the bones Fitzgerald had allegedly located.

He cringed as Cynthia described her giving two different names, allowing Fred yet another shot at constructing a mystery.

Edith Shipton appeared, as Cynthia had described, to be more nervous than a fifth-grader on speech day.

In fact, her emotion at the moment would better be described as uncomfortable – if not outright dread.

He was close to her age and, though she wouldn't have described him as handsome, there was something about his features that she found attractive.

I ran across it one time and thought it described Dad.

By Dr Paul Matschie several races of the African elephant have been described, mainly, as already mentioned, on certain differences in the shape of the ear.

One of these experiments may be described.

The power of the Internet and associated technologies we have so far described, combined with our new understanding of the genome, dooms disease to eventual extinction.

In her brief absence I described how Howie squirmed and twisted while sleeping.

Everything he described could, as Quinn so succinctly put it, be a mind constructed fairy tale.

It described how Timothy's mother had left her son in their enclosed yard to answer a phone call.

Have you experienced any of the symptoms Dr. Mallard described?

It really is as spectacular as he described.

It reminded Dean of the cigarette tin Martha had described.

One note described in two sentences a Sunday trip to the Public Gardens while another mentioned three years had passed since the sisters had seen one another.

Ryland added, The doctor was very surprised how unaffected Donnie appeared after we described his dysfunctional family environment.

Once off the walkway, Dean ran down the path until he spotted a pile of equipment and what had been described as fixed belay.

Dean tried to remember how Ryland had described the method of securing the other end of the line to the climber's body.

He could only be described as a living Adonis–except he wasn't exactly alive.

Connor's description of being in the holding cell 'losing his mind and living a nightmare' accurately described his feelings.

There were no media reports, but one intelligence spot report described the carnage.

The names and offices visited recurred regularly as Mayer had described.

Instead of designer thongs or flimsy lace things, Ethel wore the plainest of cotton panties, the type described by past generations as 'practi­cal.'

The story described an annual one-week bike tour of the Colorado Rockies and the address for information was circled and underlined.

Then, this afternoon, you didn't act or sound like the Jeffrey Byrne everyone described.

There he passed nine studious years, chiefly devoted to classical reading, Plato and Tacitus being his favourite authors, because "the former described the ideal man, and the latter man as he really is."

Vico has been generally described as a solitary soul, out of harmony with the spirit of his time and often directly opposed to it.

The site was five acres, and the building is described in the letters patent " as a fitting and noble college mansion in honour of the most glorious Virgin Mary and St Bernard in Northgates Street outside the Northgate of Oxford."

The college is sometimes described as being different from other colleges in being merely a large chantry to pray for the souls of the dead warriors.

Brown, who described experiments which were in disagreement with Pasteur's dictum.

By this method several races of Saccharomycetes and brewery yeasts were isolated and described.

The Bacterium acidi lacti described by Pasteur decomposes milk sugar into lactic acid.

He was described as chasing the British squadron all round the lake, but his encounters did not go beyond artillery duels at long range, and he allowed his enemy to continue in existence long after he might have been destroyed.

The insects belong to the family Elateridae, whose characters are described under Coleoptera.

In 1771 Thomas Jefferson described a " burning spring " in the Kanawha Valley, and when wells were drilled for salt brine near Charleston petroleum and natural gas were found here before there was any drilling for oil in Pennsylvania.

Equity as thus described would correspond rather to the judicial discretion which modifies the administration of the law than to the antagonistic system which claims to supersede the law.

In the medieval inventories are sometimes found albae, described as red, blue or black; which has led to the belief that albs were sometimes not only made of stuffs other than linen, but were coloured.

The period of Vansittart's government has been truly described as "the most revolting page of our Indian history."

The northern portion of it consists of a lofty ridge with two summits, the westernmost of which is occupied by the modern town (985 ft.), while the easternmost, which is slightly higher, bears the name of Rock of Athena, owing to its identification in modern days with the acropolis of Acragas as described by Polybius, who places upon it the temple of Zeus Atabyrius (the erection of which was attributed to the half mythical Phalaris) and that of Athena.'

Sir William Herschel was the first astronomer who measured position angles; the instrument he employed is described in Phil.

The English micrometer still retains the essential features of Troughton's original construction above described.

The electric lamp a gives illumination of the webs in a dark field, nearly in the manner described for the Cape transit circle micrometer; the intensity of illumination is regulated by a carbon-resistance controlled by the screw b.

Grubb's duplex micrometer is described in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The distinction between the old and new method of observation may thus, in one sense, be described as the difference between shooting at a moving object and in shooting at one at rest.

He too entered the ministry (1864) and during the Franco-German War served as army chaplain, an experience described in his Erlebnisse eines Feldgeistlichen (1890).

Callander owes much of its prosperity to the fact that it is the centre from which the Trossachs is usually visited, the route being that described in Scott's Lady of the Lake.

The most famous is the first, which is doubly misnamed, since it is not a temple and its contour is too unsymmetrical to be described properly as elliptical.

The "Acropolis" is in some ways more remarkable than the great kraal which has just been described.

He is described as a grisly monster with a hundred dragons' heads, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus.

Eventually he was able to prove that the biological doctrine of omnis cellula ecellula applies to pathological processes as well as to those of normal growth, and in his famous book on Cellular-pathologic, published at Berlin in 1858, he established what Lord Lister described as the "true and fertile doctrine that every morbid structure consists of cells which have been derived from pre-existing cells as a progeny."

Fermat and Descartes agreed in regarding the tangent to a curve as a secant of that curve with the two points of intersection coinciding, while Roberval regarded it as the direction of the composite movement by which the curve can be described.

Man and the animals as thus described are compared to automata, and termed machines.

Of course a unity of nature is impossible between mind and body so described.

The cause of this long duration, and at the same time the secret of its history, is to be found in the isolated position of Trebizond and its district, between the mountains and the sea, which has already been described.

There is evidence of its vogue in Holland in the 17th century, for the painting by David Teniers (1610-1690), in the Scottish National Gallery at Edinburgh, is wrongly described as "Peasants playing at Skittles."

The latter is described in detail under the heading Masu Ria, Battles In.

He is described as of an athletic frame, though not taller than the common, and a white and ruddy complexion.

Society is described as honeycombed with crimes and vices; prophets, priests, princes and the people generally are said to practise unblushingly extortion, oppression, murder, falsehood, adultery (xxii.).

It is described as a cornelian encased in a silver coin.

Albania is perhaps the least-known region in Europe; and though more than a hundred years have passed since Gibbon described it as "a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of America," but little progress has yet been made towards a scientific knowledge of this interesting land and its inhabitants.

All these, except Elbassan, Metzovo and Kroia, are described in separate articles.

Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.

Visitors are shown the "Church of the Annunciation" with caves (including a fragment of a pillar hanging from the ceiling, and said to be miraculously supported) which are described as the scene of the annunciation, the "workshop of Joseph," the "synagogue," and a stone table, said to have been used by Christ.

Apart from the weighty objections that the Edomites would have frustrated such a recrudescence of the remnant Jews as has been described, it must be remembered that the main stream of Jewish life and thought had been diverted to Babylon.

It is then used for one of the systems described above.

The " minus pressure " steam system, sometimes termed " atmospheric " or " vacuum," is of more recent introduction than those just described.

The coiled pipe firebox of the high-pressure hot-water system previously described may be also classed with boilers.

These rods, which were commonly called "Napier's bones," will be described further on.

In 1623 Ursinus published Rhabdologia Neperiana at Berlin, and the rods or bones were described in several other works.

The work of Justus Byrgius is described in the article Logarithm.

Each of the four faces of each rod contains multiples of one of the nine digits, and is similar to one of the slips just described, the first rod containing the multiples of o, I, 9, 8, the second of o, 2, 9, 7, the third of o, 3, 9, 6, the fourth of 0, 4, 9, 5, the fifth of I, 2, 8, 7, the sixth of I, 3, 8, 6, the seventh of I, 4, 8, 5, the eighth of 2, 3, 7, 6, the ninth of 2, 4, 7, 5, and the tenth of 3, 4, 6, 5.

It was not, however, until 1809 that this very remarkable form came to be autoptically described scientifically.

Martin described the visceral and osteological anatomy of one which had been received alive the preceding year.

The southern basin of Chad is described under the Shari, which empties its waters into the lake about the middle of the southern shore, forming a delta of considerable extent.

Kant described it as "an irrefutable book."

These minor ranges, excepting the Zenta, are separated from the Andean masses by comparatively low depressions and are usually described as distinct ranges; topographically, however, they seem to form a continuation of the ranges running southward from the Santa Victoria and forming the eastern rampart of the great central plateau of which the Puna de Atacama covers a large part.

What followed in the second and third years of the Celman administration can only adequately be described as a debauchery of the national honour, of the national resources, of the rights of Argentines as citizens of the republic. Buenos Aires was still prostrate under the crushing blow of the misfortunes of 1880, and lacked strength and power of organization necessary to raise any effective protest against the proceedings of Celman and his friends when the true character of these proceedings was first understood.

The indirect taxes comprise the charges on registration; stamps; customs; and a group of taxes specially described as indirect taxes.

The group specially described as indirect taxes includes those on alcohol, wine, beer, cider and other alcoholic drinks, on passenger and goods traffic by railway, on licences to distillers, spirit-sellers, &c., on salt and on sugar of home manufacture.

Other archipelagoes are described in their respective places.

The resulting compound, nickel carbonyl, which was described to the Chemical Society in 1890, is both formed and decomposed within a very moderate range of temperature, and on this fact he based a successful process for the extraction of nickel from its ores.

Although commonly described as white, the hair has a more or less decided tinge of yellow, which appears to be more marked in the summer than in the winter coat.

The head of a white goat obtained in 1900 from the mountains at the mouth of Copper river, opposite Kyak Island, has been described as a species apart.

The climate of Caracas is often described as that of perpetual spring.

One of the two living species was, indeed, described so long ago as the year 1863, under the preoccupied name of Hyracodon, but attracted little or no attention, as its affinities were not fully recognized.

Numerous types more or less nearly allied to the phalangers, such as Burramys and Triclis have also been described, as well as a flying form, Palaeopetaurus.

Bliss and fully described in his Excavations in Jerusalem in 1894-1897.

From the sources of its various tributaries to the town of Bourke, the river may be described as draining a watershed.

The plains and steppes already described lie either within or close to the tropics.

All this points to a temporary occupation by a race at a far higher stage of culture than any known Australians, who were certainly never capable of executing even the crude works of art described.

He described it as barren and sterile, and almost devoid of animals, the only one of any importance somewhat resembling a raccoon - a strange creature, which advanced by great bounds or leaps instead of walking, using only its hind legs, and covering 12 or 15 ft.

The reference is, of course, to the kangaroo, which Pelsaert had also remarked and quaintly described some sixty years previously.

The one ideal which has just been described represents the Labour party from the New South Wales standpoint.

The two appendixes attached to the upper lobe or lobus pyramidalis, and known in modern nomenclature as processus pyramidalis and processus papillaris, were described respectively as the "finger" of the liver and as the "offshoot."

Lastly, to pass over unnecessary details, the markings of various kinds to be observed on the lobes of the livers of freshly-slaughtered animals, which are due mainly to the traces left by the subsidiary hepatic ducts and hepatic veins on the liver surface, were described as "holes," "paths," "clubs" and the like.

In 1826 he described the prismatically-coloured films of metal, known as Nobili's' rings, deposited electrolytically from solutions of lead and other salts when the anode is a polished iron plate and the cathode is a fine wire placed vertically above it.

Oracular possession of the kind above described is also common among savages and people of lower culture; and Dr Tylor, in his Primitive Culture, ii.

Again, the central ridge of the South Atlantic extends a thousand miles farther south than was supposed, joining the east and west ridge, just described, between the Bouvet Islands and the Sandwich group.

The communication between the Atlantic and Arctic basins being cut off, as already described, at a depth of about 300 fathoms, the temperatures in the Norwegian Sea below that level are essentially Arctic, usually below the freezing-point of fresh water, except where the distribution is modified by the surface circulation.

The development of the equatorial and the Brazil currents in the South Atlantic has already been described.

They are described by Strabo as a mixed race of Celts and Illyrians, who used Celtic weapons, tattooed themselves, and lived chiefly on spelt and millet.

The other forms of velocity anemometer may be described as belonging to the windmill type.

Neglecting both his see and his professor - ship, to which latter he appointed a deputy described as highly incompetent, he withdrew to Calgarth Park, in his native county, where he occupied himself in forming plantations and in the improvement of agriculture.

Some two dozen distinct species have been described as occurring in man.

Wheatstone also described and to some extent worked out an interesting modification of his step-by-step instrument, the object of which was to produce a letter-printing telegraph.

Highton in experiments described in 1872, also revived the same suggestion for wireless telegraphy.

In the case of transmitters constructed as above described, in which the effective agent in producing the electric waves radiated is the sudden discharge of a condenser, it should be noticed that what is really sent out is a train of damped or decadent electric waves.

The oldest of the class (i) is that generically known as a coherer, the construction of which we have already described.

Lodge had previously described in 1897 a syntonic system of electric wave telegraphy, but it had not been publicly seen in operation prior to the exhibitions of Marconi and Slaby.'

The Triballi are described as a wild and warlike people (Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 227), and in Aristophanes (Birds, 1565-1693) a Triballian is introduced as a specimen of an uncivilized barbarian.

In Reis's lecture an apparatus was described which has given rise to much discussion as to priority in the invention of the telephone.

The instrument was described in over fifty publications 6 in various countries, and was well known to physicists previous to Bell's introduction of the electric telephone as a competitor with the electric telegraph.

Experiments very similar to these of Edison were made by Elisha Gray of Boston, Mass., and described by him in papers communicated to the American Electrical Society in 1875 and 1878.

The application of this apparatus to the transmission of music was described by Gray.'

The fundamental principle of the magneto system has been described in connexion with the " Standard board."

Several single switchboards like that described may be employed, each devoted to a certain section of the subscribers, and placed in care of an operator.

The geography of Northern Italy is described in several popular guide books.

The Adige, formed by the junction of two streams—the Etsch or Adige proper and the Eisak, both of which belong to Tirol rather than to Italy—descends as far as Verona, where it enters the great plain, with a course from north to south nearly parallel to the rivers last described, and would seem likely to discharge its waters into those of the Po, but below Legnago it turns eastward and runs parallel to the Po for about 40 m., entering the Adriatic by an independent mouth about 8 m.

The conditions which have the five been described, of despotism, mercenary warfare and bourgeois prosperity, determined the character of this epoch, which was also the period when the great achievements of the Renaissance were prepared.

The several steps whereby the members of the grand council succeeded in eliminating the people from a share in the government, and reducing the doge to the position of their ornamental representative, cannot here be described.

The events that followed are described in the article on the history of Naples (q.v.).

The military events of the Italian war of 1859 are described under ITALIAN WARS.

In one subdivision of the leeches, the Gnathobdellidae, the mouth has three chitinous jaws which produce a triangular bite, though the action has been described as like that of a circular saw.

In 1676 he is described 2 Cal.

He was described to Pepys on his acquiring office as "one of a broken sort of people that have not much to lose and therefore will venture all," and as "a beggar having £1Too or £1200 a year, but owes above £10,000."

Burnet described him as "the most hated minister that had ever been about the king."

In Queen Anne's reign, in his old age, he is described as "a gentleman of admirable natural parts, great knowledge and experience in the affairs of his own country, but of no reputation with any party.

The causes which led to the grant of Magna Carta are described in the article on English History.

Speaking generally, the climate of the Andamans themselves may be described as normal for tropical islands of similar latitude.

The histology described above for the polyp may be taken as the primitive type, from which that From Allman's G y mnoblastic Hydroids, by permission of the Council of the Ray Society.

The simple form of ocellus described in the foregoing paragraph may become folded into a pit or cup, the interior of which becomes filled with a clear gelatinous secretion forming a sort of vitreous Modified after Linko, Travaux Soc. Imp. Nat., St.

The endoderm of the medusa shows the same general types of structure as in the polyp, described above.

The non-sexua 1 reproduction takes the form of fission, budding or sporogony, the details of which are described below.

As described for the polyp, they are wandering cells capable of extensive migrations before reaching the particular spot at which they ripen.

From these facts,, and from those of the sporogony, to be described below, we may regard budding to this type as taking place from the germinal epithelium rather than from ordinary ectoderm.

Seeliger [52] who went to the opposite extreme and regarded the type of budding described by Lang as non-existent.

The general course of the development is described in the article Hydrozoa.

The medusa arises direct from the actinulastage and there is no entocodon formed, as in the budding described above.

Other variations in the mode of growth or budding bring about further differences in the building up of the colony, which are not in all cases properly understood and cannot be described in detail here.

This is in some degree parallel to the cases described above, in which a planula gives rise to the hydrorhiza, and buds a polyp laterally.

The buds become medusae by the direct method of budding described above.

It is in these parasitic forms that we meet with the method of reproduction by sporogony described above.

Solmaris, Pegantha, Polyxenia, &c. To this family should be referred, probably, the genus Hydroctena, described by C. Dawydov [11a] and regarded by him as intermediate between Hydromedusae and Ctenophora.

A typical Siphonophore is a stock or cormus consisting of a number of appendages placed in organic connexion with one another by means of a coenosarc. The coenosarc does not differ in structure from that already described in colonial Hydrozoa.

They show every transition between free medusae and sporosacs, as already described for hydroid colonies.

Thus in Velella free medusae are produced, which have been described as an independent genus of medusae, Chrysomitra.

The various types of appendages described in the foregoing may be arranged in groups termed cormidia.

In forms with a compact coenosarc such as Velella, Physalia, &c., the separate cormidia cannot be sharply distinguished, and such a condition is described technically as one with " scattered " cormidia.

It is also described as a bifurcation of two twigs, mental and bodily creation out of a common root.

Probably it was extended as far as Beneventum not long after the colonization of this town in 268 B.e., and it seems to have reached Venusia before 190 B.C. Horace, in the journey to Brundusium described in Sat.

Over the rest of western continental Europe and in the colonies of Spain, Portugal and France, ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained generally in the state which we have already described the court of the cardinal vicar-general consists of such vicargeneral and four other prelates (Smith, ubi supra).

Burmite is the name under which the Burmese amber is now described.

The mines were visited some years ago by Dr Fritz Noetling, and the mineral has been described by Dr Otto Helm.

Many other fossil resins more or less allied to amber have been described.

A tetrasulphide, MoS 4, has also been described.

Pseudis was first described by Marie Sibylle de Merlon (1647-1717), in her work on the fauna of Surinam (published first in 1705 at Amsterdam, republished in Latin in 1719), as a frog changing into a fish.

Neither of these could be called "small islands" or described as off the north-west coast of Spain, and so the Cassiterides were not identified with either by the Greek and Roman geographers.

His numerous services during the journey are described in the Argonautica that goes under his name.

The tissue developed to meet the demands for conduction in such cases always shows some of the characters described.

In addition to the cell types described, it is a very common occurrence in these bulky forms for rhizoid-like branches of the cells to grow out, mostly from the cells at the periphery of the medulla, and grow down between the cells, strengthening the whole tissue, as in the Rhodophyceae.

On the other hand, we have (2) an internal differentiation of conducting tissue, the main features of which as seen in the gametophyte of Bryophytes have already been fully described.

In the megaphyllous forms, on the other hand, (Ferns) whose leaves are large relatively to the stem, the departure of the correspondingly large trace causes a gap (leaf-gap) in the vascular cylinder, as already described.

Many cases exist which are intermediate between the two extreme types described.

The tissue-elements just described are found only in the more complicated secondary vascular tissues of certain Dicotyledons.

In the secondary tissues of Dicotyledons we may have, as already described, considerably more differentiation of the cells, all the varieties being referable, however, on the one hand to the tracheal or sieve-tube type, on the other to the parenchyma type.

The Englishman Grew and the Italian Malpighi almost simultaneously published ifiustrated works on the subject, in which they described, for the most part very accurately, what they saw with the new instruments.

He produced a solid body of accurately described facts which has formed the secure groundwork of subsequent advance.

The reason for the distribution of the chloroplaits described above is consequently seen.

This source is not, however, anything new, for the elaborated compounds so absorbed have been primarily constructed by other plants through the mechanism which has just been described.

These two conditions are generally described under the names of hyponasty and epiizasty respectively.

What have been described as periodicities, such as the daily variations of root-pressure, afford familiar instances of it.

The phenomena described occur in all cases of cicatrization of wounds in naturee.g.

By far the greater number of spot-diseases are due to Fungi, as indicated by the numerous leaf-diseases described, but such is by no means always the case.

In the higher plants the structures which have been often described as centrosomes are too indefinite in their constitution.

The Nuclei of the Lower Plants.It is only in comparatively recent times that it has been possible to determine with any degree of certainty that the minute deeply stainable bodies described more especially by Schmitz (1879) in many Algae and Fungi could be regarded as true nuclei.

The origin of the organography of the present day may be traced back to Aristotle, who described the parts of plants as organs, though very simple ones.

The most varied changes of this kind have been described, and are generally familiar as monstrosities; the study of them constitutes, under the name of teratology, a distinct department of biology.

While the tropics preserve for us what remains of the preTertiary or, at the latest, Eocene vegetation of the earth, which formerly had a much wider extension, the flora of the North Temperate region is often described as the survival of the Miocene.

Each country is described with particular regard to its people as well as to its surface, and the prominence given to the human element is of special interest.

The Greeks who accompanied Alexander described with care the towns and villages, the products and the aspect of the country.

Masudi, a great traveller who knew from personal experience all the countries between Spain and China, described the plains, mountains and seas, the dynasties and peoples, in his Meadows of Gold, an abstract made by himself of his larger work News of the Time.

During the second voyage Cook visited Easter Island, discovered several islands of the New Hebrides and New Caledonia; and on his way home by Cape Horn, in March 1774, he discovered the Sandwich Island group and described South Georgia.

A mountain may be described (it cannot be defined) as an elevated region of irregular surface rising comparatively abruptly from lower ground.

The Liassic coprolites are described by Buckland as resembling oblong pebbles, or kidney-potatoes; they are mostly 2 to 4 in.

Jager has described coprolites from the alum-slate of Gaildorf in Wurttemberg; the fish-coprolites of Burdiehouse and of Newcastle-under-Lyme are of Carboniferous age.

The contrast between the new regime and the ancient tradition of the city was curiously illustrated in 1818 by a scene described in Metternich's Memoirs, when, before the opening of the congress, Francis I., emperor of Austria, regarded by all Germany as the successor of the Holy Roman emperors, knelt at the tomb of Charlemagne amid a worshipping crowd, while the Protestant Frederick William III.

Bubastis, capital of the 19th nome of Lower Egypt, is now represented by a great mound of ruins called Tell Basta, near Zagazig, including the site of a large temple (described by Herodotus) strewn with blocks of granite.

Sometimes the ventral portions of these pads form paired or un paired little ossifications, then generally described as intercentra; such are not uncommon on the tail.

This great muscle covers completely the supracoracoideus, generally described as the second pectoral, or subclavius muscle, in reality homologous with the mammalian supraspinatus muscle.

Dames has described bones from the Chalk of southern Sweden under the name of Scaniornis, probably allied to Palaelodus.

For instance, from the lower Miocene beds of Allier and Puy-de-Dome MilneEdwards has described about so species.

A town clerk and other officers were also appointed, and the town boundaries described in great detail.

Deuteronomy, where the several sources of the narratives are described.

Colchicum was known to the Greeks under the name of KoXXucov, from KoXXIs, or Colchis, a country in which the plant grew; and it is described by Dioscorides as a poison.

After Csánad, he issued proclamations which can only be described as nihilistic. His suppression had become a political necessity.

The Ahoms retained the form of government in Assam peculiar to the Shan tribes, which may be briefly described as an organized system of personal service in lieu of taxation.

His leave-taking of Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, and his departure to meet Achilles for the last time, are most touchingly described.

Under the Arabs the old designation again prevailed and the Euphrates is always described by the Arabian geographers as the river which flows direct to Kufa, while the present stream, passing along the ruins of Babylon to Hillah and Diwanieh, has been universally known as the Nahr Sura.

And the buildings of both lands throw an instructive architec- light on the Norman national character, as we have tune in described it.

St Michael's, the parish church, has a striking Perpendicular tower, an arch of carved oak dividing its nave and chancel, a magnificent rood-loft, and a 13th-century monument doubtfully described as the tomb of Bracton, the famous lawyer, whose birthplace, according to local tradition, was Bratton Court in the vicinity.

Uruguay at that time was inhabited by Indians, of whom the dominant tribe was called Charrua, a people described as physically strong and well-formed, and endowed with a natural nobility of character.

In the deltas of shoal rivers, with a strong tide or current and no land visible, a 5 lb lead is substituted for the log-ship; the lead rests on the bottom, and the speed is obtained in a manner similar to that previously described.

Germanium dichloride, GeCl2, and germanium chloroform, GeHCl3, have also been described.

Three other monoclinic forms have been described.

An oxychloride of composition S 2 0 3 C1 4 has been described.

Pushkin in one of his poems described young Gorchakov as "Fortune's favoured son," and predicted his success.

They are described as light-eyed and red-haired, and lived by hunting in their thick forests.

The climate of the plateau is usually described as temperate, but it is essentially sub-tropical.

Green, his logical tenets are described in 16.886, 888 and 917.

The Portuguese traveller Pero de Covilham visited Calicut in 14,87 and described its possibilities for European trade; and in May 1498 Vasco da Gama, the first European navigator to reach India, arrived at Calicut.

The Nuon (or Nipwe), which up to 1908 was described sometimes as the western Cavalla and sometimes as the upper course of the St John's river, has been shown to be the upper course of the Cestos.

British and American divines, on the other hand, are slow to suspect that a new apologetic principle may mean a new system of apologetics, to say nothing of a new dogmatic. Among the evangelicals, for the most part, natural theology, far from being rejected, is not even modified, and certain doctrines continue to be described as incomprehensible mysteries.

Now, of this sharply-defined dualism there is scarcely a trace in the system described by the Fathers of the Church.

The function of the stridulating organs just described is presumably to afford means of recognition by sound.

The Coleoptera can be traced back farther in time than any other order of insects with complete transformations, if the structures that have been described from the Carboniferous rocks of Germany are really elytra.

The number of described species can now hardly be less than 10o,000, but there is little agreement as to the main principles of a natural classification.

Before this date the fundamental laws of Russia described the power of the emperor as " autocratic and unlimited."

The fauna of the Baltic provinces is described in full in the Memoirs of the scientific bodies of these provinces.

Roughly speaking, Little Russia, otherwise called the Ukraine, may be described as the basin of the Dnieper southward of the 51st parallel of latitude.

The promulgation of this truncated constitution was greeted by a furious agitation, culminating in September in a general strike, rightly described as the most remarkable political phenomenon of modern times.

In Arrian's relation of the voyage of Nearchus (Indica, 40), these two regions are well described.

Recent American railway development, viewed in its larger aspects, has thus been characterized by what may be described as the rediscovery of the Pacific coast.

It must be understood that a railway described as " light " is not necessarily built of narrower gauge than the standard.

Buds of a particular tree growing near the sea were described as producing barnacles, and these, falling into the water, were supposed to develop into geese.

Count Agenor de Gasparin, in his Tables tournantes (Paris, 1854), gives an account of what seem to have been careful experiments, though they are hardly described in sufficient detail to enable us to form an independent judgment.

Here, then, we have pictured as late as the 4th century a Lord's supper, which like the one described in I Cor.

The custom which most resembles the eucharist and agape was that known as charistia described by Valerius Maximus ii.

Another of Roberval's discoveries was a very general method of drawing tangents, by considering a curve as described by a moving point whose motion is the resultant of several simpler motions.

The slaughter of a lamb at the Passover or Easter season, whose blood was smeared on the door-post, as described in Ex.

Of this we have an interesting example in the vivid episode that preceded the battle of Ramoth-Gilead described in 1 Kings xxii., when Micaiah appears as the true prophet of Yahweh, who in his rare independence stands in sharp contrast with the conventional court prophets, who prophesied then, as their descendants prophesied more than two centuries later, smooth things.

The deciduous cypress was one of the first American trees introduced into, England; it is described by John Parkinson in his Herbal of 1640.

In the editions of the works .of Cyprian a number of treatises are printed which, certainly or probably, were not written by him, and have therefore usually been described as pseudo-Cyprianic. Several of them, e.g.

But be this as it may, he had no sooner adopted his new creed than he resolved to profess it; " a momentary glow of enthusiasm " had raised him above all temporal considerations, and accordingly, on June 8, 1753, he records that having " privately abjured the heresies" of his childhood before a Catholic priest of the name of Baker, a Jesuit, in London, he announced the same to his father in an elaborate controversial epistle which his spiritual adviser much approved, and which he himself afterwards described to Lord Sheffield as having been " written with all the pomp, the dignity, and self-satisfaction of a martyr."

Gibbon's verdict on the history of the middle ages is contained in the famous sentence, " I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion."

These commentaries may be described as to a certain extent a new departure in New Testament exegesis.

The perennial lakes, such as those just described, hold their waters for years and perhaps centuries; but the ephemeral lakes usually evaporate in the course of the summer.

It is described by the epithets KoLArt (hollow) and K11Tw€6aa (spacious or hollow), and is probably connected etymologically with MaKKos, lacus, any hollow place.

Ward is described by his son and biographer as somewhat unequally gifted by nature.

These and other experiments, described by Dr Manson in the Practitioner for March 1900, confirming the laboratory evidence as they do, leave no doubt whatever of the correctness of the mosquito-parasitic theory of malaria.

In the other animals several parasites have been described by different observers, but the alternate hosts are not known.

Henry's son Murkertagh the Strongminded, and his great-grandson Hugh, described as "the most renowned, hospitable and valorous of the princes of Ireland in his time," greatly consolidated the power of the O'Neills.

The general characteristics of the pupae in these two sections have already been described.

It is customary to divide the Orthorrhapha into the two divisions Nematocera and Brachycera, in the former of which the antennae are elongate and in a more or less primitive condition, as described above, while in the latter these organs are short, and, as already explained, apparently composed of only three joints.

He presented to the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, a variety of fossils and antiquities, which he had described in his works, and received the thanks of the university and the degree of LL.D.

Bishop Roger of Caen (1107-1139) built the castle, described by Henry of Huntingdon as scarcely inferior to that of Devizes, "than which there was none greater within the confines of England."

Their names vary in origin and probably also in point of age, and where they represent fixed territorial limits, the districts so described were in some cases certainly peopled by groups of non-Israelite ancestry.

The assumption that the decay of Assyria awoke the national feeling of independence is perhaps justified by those events which made the greatest impression upon the compiler, and an account is given of Josiah's religious reforms, based upon a source apparently identical with that which described the work of Jehoash.

The Jewish embassy was headed by Philo, who has described its fortunes in a tract dealing with the divine punishment of the persecutors.

His tomb and villa are described by Seneca.

The dictator appointed to meet the dangers of war, sedition or crime was technically described as " the administrative dictator (rei gerundae causa).

This is described as having "an head about a quarter of a yard long, a staffe of two yards long put into their head, twelve iron pikes round about, and one in the end to stop with."

The older formations are nearly all overlaid by deposits of the Quaternary period, which will be described last.

There are four formations of Cretaceous strata in Mississippi, defined by lines having the same general direction as the one just described.

Its marine fossils are admirably preserved, and one hundred and eight species have been described.

The peculiar form and arrangement of the anterior abdominal segments have already been described.

Blunt have visited and illustrated the district of Nejd, and described the waning glories of the Wahabi empire.

Although the succession of the periodical winds follows the progress of the seasons as just described, the changes in the wind's direction everywhere take place under the operation of special local influences which often disguise the more general law, and make it difficult to trace.

Hawker described the bulk of his parishioners as a "mixed multitude of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters of various hues."

His character is perhaps best described by a writer who says "his strength was not equal to his goodness."

In 1348 the island was devastated by the plague described by Boccaccio.

Bernhard Walther, a rich patrician, became his pupil and patron; and they together equipped the first European observatory, for which Regiomontanus himself constructed instruments of an improved type (described in his posthumous Scripta, Nuremberg, 1544).

The peculiar prostomium of Tomopteris is described below.

It may be pointed out that the several examples described recall a phenomenon which is not uncommon and is well known to anatomists.

Quite recently, another mode of budding has been described in Trypanosyllis gemmipara, where a crowd of some fifty buds arising symmetrically are produced at the tail end of the worm.

Among the aquatic Oligochaeta and many earthworms (the families Lumbricidae, Geoscolicidae and a few other genera) the spermathecae are simple structures, as has been described.

He described his experiences inArmy Life in a Black Regiment (1870).

His father is generally described as a butcher, but he sold other things than meat; and although a man of some property and a churchwarden of St Nicholas, Ipswich, his character seems to have borne a striking resemblance to that of Thomas Cromwell's father.

The scope of the work is described on the title-page.

They have been described as "men who look the fiends they really are - of most sinister expression, with murder and every crime speaking from their savage eyes.

The higher parts of the plains, which are deeply trenched by the upper tributaries of the rivers, are inhabited by various Caucasian races - Kabardians and Cherkesses (Circassians) in the west, Ossetes in the middle, and several tribal elements from Daghestan, described under the general name of Chechens, in the east.

The orographical characteristics of the Caucasus are described in detail under that heading.

He rebelled at hearing the system under which they flourished described as the perfection of human reason.

Voltaire described him as "the only Jesuit who has given a reasonable system of philosophy."

In the 14th century the divisions were more frequently described as hundreds, and Wirksworth alone retained the designation wapentake until modern times.

So much, indeed, does the character of the herbage vary from plot to plot that the effect may fairly be described as kaleidoscopic. Repeated analyses have shown how greatly both the botanical constitution and the chemical composition of the mixed herbage vary according to the description of manure applied.

But a little reflection will show that he wrote with his usual accuracy and sobriety when he described her influence on him.

It is his contact with the Jews which has chiefly interested later ages, and he is doubtless the monarch described in the pseudoprophetic chapters of Daniel.

Under the conditions we have described, many of the most interesting problems of our own time, when they are once defined, resolve themselves into statistical inquiries.

In modern problems we can watch the economic machine actually at work, cross-examine our witnesses, see that delicate interplay of passions and interests which cannot be set down or described in a document, and acquire a certain sense of touch in relation to the questions at issue which manuscripts and records cannot impart.

The position we have described is no doubt partly due to the unsettlement of economic opinion and the hostile criticism of old-established doctrines which has characterized the last generation.

On examination this is found to be the under surface of the posterior limb of the gland, the upper surface of which has just been described as lying beneath the shell.

It is clear enough that the sac is of a different origin from that of Aplysia (described in the section treating of Opisthobranchia), being primitive instead of secondary.

The military events of the years1812-1814are described under Napoleonic Campaigns; and we need therefore note here only a few details personal to Napoleon or some considerations which influenced his policy.

A relation between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

Its aim may be described shortly as an effort to humanize theology.

So strong was his hostility to some of the delegates that he described Basel as a western Babylon.

The nature of these organs is described in the article Arthropoda.

In aquatic insects various devices for obtaining or entangling air are found; these modifications are described in the special articles on the various orders of insects (Coleoptera, Hemiptera, &c.).

The continuous layer of cells from which the nervous system is developed undergoes a segmentation analogous with that we have described as occurring in the ventral plate; there is thus formed a pair of contiguous ganglia for each segment of the body, but there is no ganglion for the telson.

In moths and certain saw-flies there is no rupture of the membranes; the Russian zoologists Tichomirov and Kovalevsky have described the growth of both amnion and embryonic ectoderm around the yolk, the embryo being thus completely enclosed until hatching time by both amnion and serosa.

The adult caterpillar may be described as a creature the hypodermis of which is studded with Adapted from Koerschelt and buds that expand and form the butterHerder, and Lowne.

Insect metamorphosis may be briefly described as phenomena of development characterized by abrupt changes of appearance and of structure, occurring during the period subsequent to embryonic development and antecedent to the reproductive state.

Upwards of 300,000 species have been collected and described, and at present the number of named forms increases at the rate of about 8000 species per annum.

From the Trias of Colorado, Scudder has described cockroaches intermediate between their Carboniferous precursors and their present-day descendants, while the existence of endopterygotous Hexapods is shown by the remains of Coleoptera of several families.

Reaching Geneva in October 1532, Farel (described in a contemporary monastic chronicle as "un chetif malheureux predicant, nomme maistre Guillaume") at once began to preach in a room of his lodging, and soon attracted "un grand nombre de gens qui estoient advertis de sa venue et déjà infects de son heresie."

Of the specimens in the British Museum described by Latham it is to be feared that scarcely any exist.

His Synopsis was finished in 1785; two supplements were added in 1787 and 1802, 6 and in 1790 he produced an abstract of the work under the title of Index Ornithologicus, wherein he assigned names on the Linnaean method to all the species described.

The same draughtsman (who had in 1 775 produced a History of British Birds) in 1822 began another series of Figures of rare and curious Birds.8 The practice of Brisson, Buffon, Latham and others of neglecting to name after the Linnaean fashion the species they described gave great encouragement to compilation, and led to what has proved to be of some inconvenience to modern ornithologists.