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The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress in India September 1881

1881

The attendance in girls' schools increased in spite of the famine but this was probably because food and other aid was given to the girls during the prevalence of the famine by the managers of the schools. [...] Who has not admired the beauty of shells ?—the rich lustre of the Cowries the glossy polish of the Olives the brilliant painting of the Cones the varied lagus of the Cameos the exquisite name of Mother of Pearl ? Who has not listened. [...] to the mysterious `sound of the sea' in the Whelks and Helmets or wondered at the many chambers of the Nautilus ? What child ever went to the seashore without picking up shells or what lady ever spurned them as ornaments of her parlour ? Shells are at once the attraction of the untutored savage the delight of the refined artist the wonder of the philosophic zoologist and the most valued treas [...] But the geologist after watching the ebb of the ocean-tide examines into the soil on the surface of the earth and finds in it a book of chronicles the letters Of which are not unknown hieroglyphics but familiar shells. [...] They are truly organic structures part and parcel of the living anim as truly as the nails of man the plumage of birds the armour of armadillos and crocodiles the scales and cartilage of fishes or the shell of the sea-urchin.
government politics public policy
Pages
70
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120043
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Mahomedan Education in the Madras Presidency
497-514 R.M. Macdonald view
Extracts from the Mahabharata
515-520 unknown view
Facilities Afforded at Cambridge to Indian Civil Service Selected Candidates
520-524 unknown view
Reviews
525-532 Alan Greenwell view
The Building Arts of India
532-543 Maclagan view
Child-Marriage in Bengal; with some of its Bearings Moral Mental and Practical
543-549 D.N. Singha view
A Parsi’s Remarks on Marriage and Widowhood among Hindus
550-554 Nusserwanje Ginwalla view
The Northbrook Indian Society and Club
554-555 unknown view
Indian Intelligence
555-556 unknown view
Personal Intelligence
556-556 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view