The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... animal which shall have no precise colour , figure , magnitude , or the like ; but it is an useful artifice of the understanding to leave these out in our general reasonings . Thus it is that the a , b , c , & c . of the alge- braists ...
... animal which shall have no precise colour , figure , magnitude , or the like ; but it is an useful artifice of the understanding to leave these out in our general reasonings . Thus it is that the a , b , c , & c . of the alge- braists ...
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... animal may sometimes be seen for a day together struggling to get rid of its egg - shell . The mite is a very vora- cious animal , feasting equally upon animal and vegetable substances . It is also ex- tremely tenacious of life ; for ...
... animal may sometimes be seen for a day together struggling to get rid of its egg - shell . The mite is a very vora- cious animal , feasting equally upon animal and vegetable substances . It is also ex- tremely tenacious of life ; for ...
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... animal . The dubius mea- sures only about three feet in length . A specimen is to be seen in the British Mu- seum ... animals , which they draw in with their feelers , in a short time reject- ing through the same aperture the shells and ...
... animal . The dubius mea- sures only about three feet in length . A specimen is to be seen in the British Mu- seum ... animals , which they draw in with their feelers , in a short time reject- ing through the same aperture the shells and ...
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... animal matter undergoes in its progress towards total de- composition , have been , for many obvious reasons , but little attended to But an op- portunity of this kind was offered at Paris in 1786 and 1787 , when the old burial ground ...
... animal matter undergoes in its progress towards total de- composition , have been , for many obvious reasons , but little attended to But an op- portunity of this kind was offered at Paris in 1786 and 1787 , when the old burial ground ...
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... Animal matter having once passed into this stage of decomposition , appears to resist for a long time any further alteration : some of these pits that had been closed above 40 years , were , upon examination , found to be little else ...
... Animal matter having once passed into this stage of decomposition , appears to resist for a long time any further alteration : some of these pits that had been closed above 40 years , were , upon examination , found to be little else ...
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