Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, Volume 1The Society, 1888 |
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Acanthodrilus alimentary canal amongst animal anthers appears arranged BEDDARD beneath beset body wall bracts branches branchlets brother calyx cavity ciliated circular cœlom cœlomic colour connective tissue corolla described developed Dieri distinct diverticula duct earth-worms epidermic cells epidermis epithelium external openings figure filaments flowers funnel ganglion genital genus Geoplana spenceri glabrous glands granular granules group marriage hairlets Headman inch long Jijima Kennel Kurnai land Planarians latter layer leaves lobes longitudinal fibres Lumbricus mass Megascolides membrane Moseley mother cell Mount Musgrave Mount Victoria mucous muscle fibres muscular neph nephridia nephridium nerve cord nuclei ovary oviduct ovulary Owen Stanley's Ranges pass pedicels pharynx Pirauru Planarians Plate Platyhelminthes portion posterior end present protoplasm relationship Rhynchodemus rod-like bodies seen segment septa septum setæ short side slightly small nephridia species specimens spermatozoa stain stamens structure testis totem transverse Tricladians tube tubules uterus ventral surface vessels Wakelbura worm Zeiss F
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Página 116 - It seems to me that the most common practice is the exchange of girls by their respective parents as wives for each other's sons, or in some tribes the exchange of sisters, or of some female relatives by the young men themselves.
Página 104 - The reply is, that the constraining power in such cases is not government, whether by chief or council, but education ; that the black is educated from infancy in the belief that departure from the customs of his tribe is inevitably followed by one at least of many evils, such as becoming grey, ophthalmia, skin eruptions, or sickness ; but above all, that it exposes the offender to the danger of death from sorcery.
Página 115 - It may be safely laid down as a broad and general proposition that among these savages a wife was obtained by the exchange of a female relative, with the alternative possibility of obtaining one by inheritance (Levirate), by elopement, or by capture. ... It seems to me that...
Página 105 - High Plains" of the state1. The surface of the county is a plain which slopes gently toward the east and whose surface is broken by two large valleys, one in the northern and the other in the southern part of the county.
Página 51 - Rhynchodcmm ; eyes absent from the front of the anterior extremity, but present in two lateral elongate crowded patches placed just behind the anterior extremity, and scattered sparsely on the lateral margins of the body for its entire extent ; mouth nearly central, pharynx cylindrical.
Página 90 - ... believe that this is a mechanism for the filtering of food from the water; the latter permeating or percolating through the membrane, the food being retained in a position adapted for its ingestion into the bodies of the collarcells which surround it.
Página 90 - Notée on the Structure of Several Forms of Land Planarians, with a Description of two New Genera and several New Speciee , and a List of all species at present known.
Página 118 - ... within the tribe, as distinguished from capture from without the tribe, would seem to have been fairly common, and to have been due to the difficulty which some young men had in obtaining wives by the normal and legal methods of betrothal or exchange. Marriage by elopement, according to Dr. AW Howitt, "obtains in all tribes in which infant betrothal occurs, and where the young men, or some of them, find more or less difficulty through this practice, or by there being no female relative available...
Página 105 - ... who could require all his subjects to bear this badge of servitude. With regard to the Australian aborigines, many tribes of whom practise circumcision, Mr. Curr says, " On the subject of government (by which I mean the habitual exercise of authority, by one or a few individuals, over a community or a body of persons) I have made many 1 Andree, in ' Archiv f. Anthr.,' vol. xiii. p. 78. - Sturt, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 140. 3 Spencer, ' Sociology,
Página 103 - ... community. There seems to be no person to whom the whole community yields submission, who has peculiar privileges which are patent to observation, or who is surrounded by more or less of savage pomp and ceremony. All that is seen by a general superficial view of an Australian tribe is, that there is a number of families who roam over certain tracts of country, in search of food, and that while they appear to show a considerable respect to the old men, all the males enjoy...