The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 12James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1873 - Science |
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... BIRDS . By A. L. Adams , M.B. , F.R.S. RECENT OBSERVATIONS ON THE FERTILISATION OF PLANTS . By A. W. Bennett , M.A. , F.L.S. Illustrated NEWS FROM JUPITER . By R. A. Proctor , B.A. ... ... ... ... ... 276 ... 337 348 PAGE ... 359 THE ...
... BIRDS . By A. L. Adams , M.B. , F.R.S. RECENT OBSERVATIONS ON THE FERTILISATION OF PLANTS . By A. W. Bennett , M.A. , F.L.S. Illustrated NEWS FROM JUPITER . By R. A. Proctor , B.A. ... ... ... ... ... 276 ... 337 348 PAGE ... 359 THE ...
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... birds , ( 2 ) acanthopterous fishes , and ( 3 ) phys- tomous fishes . Lizards and the mammalian group of rodents are , next t serpents , richer in species than any other orders of vertebrates , so far as a present known . It is usual to ...
... birds , ( 2 ) acanthopterous fishes , and ( 3 ) phys- tomous fishes . Lizards and the mammalian group of rodents are , next t serpents , richer in species than any other orders of vertebrates , so far as a present known . It is usual to ...
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... birds , on lizards , frogs , toads , and fishes ; in order to obtain its prey it occasionally climbs trees or the roofs of huts ; it is an expert swimmer , and is sometimes found at a considerable distance out at sea . It is more a ...
... birds , on lizards , frogs , toads , and fishes ; in order to obtain its prey it occasionally climbs trees or the roofs of huts ; it is an expert swimmer , and is sometimes found at a considerable distance out at sea . It is more a ...
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... Birds , by Cuthbert Collingwood , M.A. , F.L.S. London : Bean , 1872. The author has adopted the Marcetian principle in this volume , and so we have a prolonged conversation between Harry , Amy , and the various birds as to their habits ...
... Birds , by Cuthbert Collingwood , M.A. , F.L.S. London : Bean , 1872. The author has adopted the Marcetian principle in this volume , and so we have a prolonged conversation between Harry , Amy , and the various birds as to their habits ...
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... bird , found during the past summer in the upper cretaceous shale of Kansas , indicates an aquatic bird as large as a pigeon and differing widely from all known birds in having biconcave vertebrae . The species is termed Ichthiornis ...
... bird , found during the past summer in the upper cretaceous shale of Kansas , indicates an aquatic bird as large as a pigeon and differing widely from all known birds in having biconcave vertebrae . The species is termed Ichthiornis ...
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