. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 24. LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF BATTLE. The upper and lower outlines of the rattle will be seen not to be straight but curved lines, the tendency of the joints to sag downward by their own weight being counteracted by the fact that the width of each ring is greater at the lower edge of the rattle than at the upper. Mr. Quelch, the director of the museum in Georgetown, Demerara, has shown that the object of this arrangement is to protect th
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 24. LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF BATTLE. The upper and lower outlines of the rattle will be seen not to be straight but curved lines, the tendency of the joints to sag downward by their own weight being counteracted by the fact that the width of each ring is greater at the lower edge of the rattle than at the upper. Mr. Quelch, the director of the museum in Georgetown, Demerara, has shown that the object of this arrangement is to protect the rattle. SEPARATE SEGMENTS OF DISJOINTED PERFECT RATTLE OF CROTALUS. Side view. a button; /ibaaal joint. (After against injury and moisture when the snake is moving over the ground by keeping the somewhat delicate instrument automatically raised. In order to study the internal structure of the rattle so as to learn how the various joints are linked together we will have to either i)ull them apart sei^arately (fig. 25) or make a longitudinal section through. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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