Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, Volume 12,Partes 1868-1870 |
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5th ave America ANDREW H animals April 20 Balance on hand Board of Commissioners Brought forward Carried forward cash paid cash paid B. F. cash paid James cash paid John cash paid Thomas cash paid William Central Park Comptroller Croton Aqueduct Eighth avenue Equestrians expenditure expenses Family February feet Fifty-ninth street fossil Gate Genus GREEN ground Hadrosaurus hand December 31 Harlem river High Bridge Humboldt Hundred and Fifty-fifth improvement inches interest J. H. Sullivan July June laid Laws Legislature Linn maps March ment miles military mometer month Museum North November Observatory Observed Height paid laborers parade-ground pay-roll Pedestrians Public Drive Railroad rain regulating and grading rockman Sept Seventh avenue Sixth avenue specimens Spuyten Duyvil creek square summer resident Surveys Thermometer tion tunnels Vehicles voucher WALDO HUTCHINS West Westchester County York City
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Página 29 - Humboldt show to every one who can " read between the lines" an endeavor to present nature in her totality unconnected with man, I cannot otherwise than state here that, on the contrary, it has ever appeared to me that this great man, studying nature in her details, and becoming what Bacon calls her interpreting priest, elevates himself to those heights whence he can take a comprehensive view of her in...
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