Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, Volume 9Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1874 - Natural history |
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Page xi - HALF-HOURS WITH THE STARS: a Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations. Showing in 12 Maps the position oi the principal Star-Groups night after night throughout the year. With Introduction and a separate Explanation of each Map. True for every Year.
Page vi - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H.
Page xi - HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE : a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a means of Amusement and Instruction.
Page 31 - I suggest of the older theory — there must be another form of matter present during life ; a matter which exists in the condition of vapour or gas, which pervades the whole nervous organism, surrounds, as an enveloping atmosphere, each molecule of nervous structure, and is the medium of all motion communicated to or from the nervous centres.
Page xxii - Medical Times. Third Edition, much enlarged, with full description of the various parts of the Instrument, price '2s. 6d. plain; 4s. coloured. Half-hours with the Microscope. By EDWIN LANKESTER, MD Illustrated by 250 Drawings from Nature by Tuffen West.
Page 63 - July of the same year, at the time when the fever season used to set in, not a single case occurred, yet the trees were not more than nine feet high. Since then complete immunity from fever has been maintained.
Page xii - ROBSON, JOHN E. BOTANICAL LABELS for Labelling Herbaria, adapted to the names in the London Catalogue of Plants and the Manuals of Professor BABINGTON and Dr. HOOKER, with Extra Labels for all New Species and Varieties recorded in the recent volumes of " The Journal of Botany" and the Exchange Club Reports.
Page 63 - A station-house at one of the ends of a railway viaduct in the Department of the Var was so pestilential that the officials could not be kept there longer than a year. Forty of these trees were planted, and it is now as healthy as any other place on the line.
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Page xxii - Fcp. cloth, price 2s. 6d. This manual comprises all the most approved methods of mounting, together with the result of the Author's experience and that of many of his friends in every department of Microscopic Manipulation...