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CENTIPEDE , the characteristic member of the See also:group Chilopoda, a class of the See also:Arthropoda, formerly associated with the Diplopoda (Millipedes), the Pauropoda and the Symphyla, to constitute the now abandoned group See also:Myriapoda. The resemblance between the Chilopoda and the Diplopoda is principally superficial and due to the See also:elongation and vermiform shape of the See also:body, which in both is composed of a number of similar or subsimilar somites not differentiated as are those of Insecta, existing See also:Arachnida and most See also:Crustacea, into See also:series or " tagmata " of varying See also:function. Until 1893 no one doubted the correctness of the See also:assumption that the Chilopoda and Diplopoda were orders of a class Myriapoda of the same systematic status as the Arachnida or See also:Hexapoda. But in that See also:year, R. I. See also:Pocock and J. S. See also:Kingsley independently pointed out that they differ as much from each other as either differs from the Hexapoda; and should, therefore,
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by See also:General See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker in the passage already quoted believed it to be. Decision after decision of individual instances has made it a settled practice for the Federal See also:government to co-operate with or to supplement the See also:state governments in the gathering of See also:statistics that may furnish a basis for state or Federal legislation. The See also:law has allowed the Federal See also:census See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in its discretion to compile and publish the See also:birth statistics of divisions in which they are accurately kept; one Federal See also:report on the statistics of marriages and divorces through-out the See also:country from 1867 to 1886 inclusive was published in 1889, and a second for the succeeding twenty-year See also:period was published in 1908–1909; an See also:annual See also:volume gives the statistics of deaths for about See also:half the See also:population of the country, including all the states and cities which have approximately See also:complete records of deaths; Federal agencies like the See also:bureau of labour and the bureau of corporations have been created for the purpose of gathering certain social and See also:industrial statistics, and the bureau of the census has been made a permanent statistical office.
The Federal census office has been engaged in the compilation and publication of statistics of many sorts. Among its important lines of See also:work may be mentioned frequent reports during the See also:cotton ginning See also:season upon the amount of cotton ginned, supplemental census reports upon occupations, on employees and See also:wages, and on further See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of various population tables, reports on See also:street and electric See also:railways, on mines and quarries, on electric See also:light and See also:power See also:plants, on deaths in the See also:registration See also:area 1900-1904, on benevolent institutions, on the insane, on paupers in almshouses, on the social statistics of cities and on the census of manufactures in 1905. See also:Congress has recently entrusted it with still further duties, and it has See also:developed into the See also:main statistical office of the Federal government, finding its nearest analogue probably in the Imperial Statistical Office in See also:Berlin. (W. F.
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