Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, Volume 24Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1888 - Natural history |
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... Gardens , Oxford . Now melt some paraffin wax before a gas - stove or over a water bath . Be very careful to have it only just above its melting - point . Warm the bottle of turpentine containing the specimens , pick them out , and drop ...
... Gardens , Oxford . Now melt some paraffin wax before a gas - stove or over a water bath . Be very careful to have it only just above its melting - point . Warm the bottle of turpentine containing the specimens , pick them out , and drop ...
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... garden or field through ' glass stained a deep blue- with cobalt . In sunlight a piece of yellow glass . should be added , to cut off the extreme blue and violet . A sunny landscape viewed through these two- glasses presents a curious ...
... garden or field through ' glass stained a deep blue- with cobalt . In sunlight a piece of yellow glass . should be added , to cut off the extreme blue and violet . A sunny landscape viewed through these two- glasses presents a curious ...
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... garden was visited by this pretty little bird , which I had never before observed here . I counted ten at one time on quite a small lawn , which had been newly mown , and they had evidently pounced upon some dainty insect , as they were ...
... garden was visited by this pretty little bird , which I had never before observed here . I counted ten at one time on quite a small lawn , which had been newly mown , and they had evidently pounced upon some dainty insect , as they were ...
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... gardens suffer so much from their depredations when the fruit is ripening that it is found necessary to employ men to scare them away . The Barbary partridge , though numerous on the rock , as well as on the opposite African coast , is ...
... gardens suffer so much from their depredations when the fruit is ripening that it is found necessary to employ men to scare them away . The Barbary partridge , though numerous on the rock , as well as on the opposite African coast , is ...
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... garden outcast , has become well established during the last few years in woods in the neighbourhood , and will doubtless attract the attention of future observers . It may also be noted that , both as to foliage and flowers , it has so ...
... garden outcast , has become well established during the last few years in woods in the neighbourhood , and will doubtless attract the attention of future observers . It may also be noted that , both as to foliage and flowers , it has so ...
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