Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, Volume 8Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1873 - Natural history |
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... examination of a marine calcarcous sponge . I have not only fed the sponge with indigo , and examined all at the same moment , but the sponge so fed was put into spirit directly afterwards , and now shows all the cells ( monociliated ) ...
... examination of a marine calcarcous sponge . I have not only fed the sponge with indigo , and examined all at the same moment , but the sponge so fed was put into spirit directly afterwards , and now shows all the cells ( monociliated ) ...
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... examination , I found a number of large brown ants fastened on to various parts of its body , sucking the blood from even the wings and eyes . Having been obliged to remove these with some force , I carried the little sufferer home in ...
... examination , I found a number of large brown ants fastened on to various parts of its body , sucking the blood from even the wings and eyes . Having been obliged to remove these with some force , I carried the little sufferer home in ...
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... examination , you break the boul- der - stone open , when you may chance to find it is a portion of Silurian , Carboniferous , or Oolitic lime- stone , and that it contains fossils belonging to those formations . Here is a find - an ...
... examination , you break the boul- der - stone open , when you may chance to find it is a portion of Silurian , Carboniferous , or Oolitic lime- stone , and that it contains fossils belonging to those formations . Here is a find - an ...
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... applies more particularly to geological examination of strata . If you are bent chiefly on paleontological investiga- tion , that is , on the study of fossils , perhaps it will have access to , and then boldly take the field.
... applies more particularly to geological examination of strata . If you are bent chiefly on paleontological investiga- tion , that is , on the study of fossils , perhaps it will have access to , and then boldly take the field.
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... examination of the articulations . I have generally found it preferable to have the skull and all the limbs disconnected from the trunk , and the component bones of the limbs of one side all separated from each other . If it should be ...
... examination of the articulations . I have generally found it preferable to have the skull and all the limbs disconnected from the trunk , and the component bones of the limbs of one side all separated from each other . If it should be ...
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