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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... KNOWN FERN . L. s . d . 3 0 0 220 30 0 4 10 0 SYNOPSIS FILICUM ; including OSMUNDACEAE , SCHIZEACEAE , MARATTIACEE , and OPHIO- GLOSSACEÆ , accompanied by Figures representing the essential characteristics of each Genus . By the late ...
... KNOWN FERN . L. s . d . 3 0 0 220 30 0 4 10 0 SYNOPSIS FILICUM ; including OSMUNDACEAE , SCHIZEACEAE , MARATTIACEE , and OPHIO- GLOSSACEÆ , accompanied by Figures representing the essential characteristics of each Genus . By the late ...
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... known , and it consists mainly of a free translation of a portion of Bede's De Natura Rerum . The ex- tracts are literal translations from the Anglo - Saxon . The following extract is a specimen of the com- piler's Anglo - Saxon ...
... known , and it consists mainly of a free translation of a portion of Bede's De Natura Rerum . The ex- tracts are literal translations from the Anglo - Saxon . The following extract is a specimen of the com- piler's Anglo - Saxon ...
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... known to men according to their under- standing of them ; and though we should describe them according to bookish meaning , it will seem to unlearned men too deep and uncommon . " Several pages are devoted to the various divisions of ...
... known to men according to their under- standing of them ; and though we should describe them according to bookish meaning , it will seem to unlearned men too deep and uncommon . " Several pages are devoted to the various divisions of ...
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... known to modern naturalists . " Thus saith Solomon of the ant rightly , and of the idle man who waits for fine weather : ' Be not slothful ; look at the ant . ' " This say writings - that the ant has three natures . It has such a nature ...
... known to modern naturalists . " Thus saith Solomon of the ant rightly , and of the idle man who waits for fine weather : ' Be not slothful ; look at the ant . ' " This say writings - that the ant has three natures . It has such a nature ...
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... known to have been a morning G. H. KINAHAN . aurora . I THE STORY OF A GRAVEL - PIT . BY J. E. TAYLOR , F.G.S. , ETC. AM the last of my race . My brother story- tellers have had their day , and ceased to be . Had you questioned me a few ...
... known to have been a morning G. H. KINAHAN . aurora . I THE STORY OF A GRAVEL - PIT . BY J. E. TAYLOR , F.G.S. , ETC. AM the last of my race . My brother story- tellers have had their day , and ceased to be . Had you questioned me a few ...
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