Word: novis
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...maps animals are pictured supposed to show the species by which the region is especially characterized. On the plate representing New England, what is now Connecticut is occupied by two sickly rabbits, Western New York is given up to deer and on the St. Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost...
...physical geography in the American Naturalist, Science, and the American Journal of Science. Professor Joseph H. Thayer has done some extremely important work on philology. The Harpers have published for him a Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. This is based on Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, which he has translated, revised and enlarged. This book appeared simultaneously in New York and London. By a vote of the president and fellows, Professor Thayer was authorized to undertake the supervision of the memorial edition of the Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods, by the late...