Word: poulton
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...18tDORCAS, a musical comedy in three acts, by Harry and Edward Poulton, appear for the first time here at the Boston Museum. The whole comedy is centred around Pauline Hall, whose appearance again on the Boston stage is highly welcome. Dorcas is a very light, amusing, musical comedy. The story dwells upon the escapades of a young woman of title who resorts to strategem to satisfy herself of the character of a lordly lover. She disguises herself as a peddler boy, then as Dorcas, a village beauty and wife of an innkeeper, and finally as the daughter of an English...
...Edward B. Poulton, M. A., F. R. S., of the University of Oxford, gave a most interesting lecture yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Natural History Society, on the subject: "Some Recent Investigations upon the Meaning and Use of the Colors of Animals in the Struggle for Existence." The lecture included some of the most interesting parts of the course which Mr. Poulton has recently given at the Lowell Institute and was elaborately illustrated throughout by the stereopticon...
...Poulton first spoke of the color of animals as adapted to purposes of concealment. This adaptation, he said, goes beyond merely affecting the surface of the animal's body and is deep seated in the nervous system. Some insects closely resemble dead leaves, and as a dead leaf with a hole in it appears more decayed than one that is entire, so some insects go to the extent of having what gives the impression of a hole upon the surface of their bodies. In one stage of development this hole is represented, as an artist would represent it on canvas...
Harvard Natural History Society. Some Recent Investigations upon the Meaning and Use of the Colors of Animals in the Struggle for Existence (illustrated by the stereopticon). Mr. Edward B. Poulton, M. A., F. R. S., of Oxford University. Harvard...
Edward B. Poulton, M. A., F. R. S., Professor of Zoology at Oxford University, will lecture this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Harvard 1. Subject: "Some recent investigations upon the meaning and use of the colors of animals in the struggle for existence." The public are invited to the lecture...