Curious Experiments for Preventing the Waste of Honey, and Preserving the Lives of Bees During the Winter: By a Gentleman Near the Banks of the Tweed, from the Repository of Select Papers on Agriculture, Etc., Numb. II.A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston |
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... flowers alike flores , and all animals from a fly up to a mule , or an elephant , bixos , ‡ or that they thought the study of natural history beneath them ; but that the knowledge necessary for accurate distinction was not yet in ...
... flowers alike flores , and all animals from a fly up to a mule , or an elephant , bixos , ‡ or that they thought the study of natural history beneath them ; but that the knowledge necessary for accurate distinction was not yet in ...
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... flower is by lapping , or a constant suc- cession of short and quick extensions and contractions of the organ , which occasions the fluid to be accumulated upon it and ascend along its upper surface until it reaches the orifice of the ...
... flower is by lapping , or a constant suc- cession of short and quick extensions and contractions of the organ , which occasions the fluid to be accumulated upon it and ascend along its upper surface until it reaches the orifice of the ...
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... Flowers , however , do not ordinarily contain nectar in such abun- dance nor in such convenient positions . The nectaries are described as usually only a small spot , which , without becoming more prominent , produces the nectar ; but ...
... Flowers , however , do not ordinarily contain nectar in such abun- dance nor in such convenient positions . The nectaries are described as usually only a small spot , which , without becoming more prominent , produces the nectar ; but ...
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... flower in Essex the first week in August , and from which he could not disengage it without great difficulty , and tearing off the fly's leg . ' Hermann , in 1804 , figured his Chelifer parasita , noting that it was found adhering to a ...
... flower in Essex the first week in August , and from which he could not disengage it without great difficulty , and tearing off the fly's leg . ' Hermann , in 1804 , figured his Chelifer parasita , noting that it was found adhering to a ...
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... flowers of learning graced the royal speech ; What gems of wisdom dropped with every word ; What wholesome lessons he was wont to teach , In pleasing proverbs ; and she wished , in sooth , To know if Rumour spoke the simple truth ...
... flowers of learning graced the royal speech ; What gems of wisdom dropped with every word ; What wholesome lessons he was wont to teach , In pleasing proverbs ; and she wished , in sooth , To know if Rumour spoke the simple truth ...
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Page 340 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Page 117 - And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them ; Have ye here any meat ? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honey-comb. And he took it and did eat before them.
Page 350 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 351 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. " Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the...
Page 351 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 63 - Yet there is something to be said on the other side of the question.
Page 350 - Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 117 - WHEN Solomon was reigning in his glory, Unto his throne the Queen of Sheba came (So in the Talmud you may read the story). Drawn by the magic of the monarch's fame, To see the splendors of his court, and bring Some fitting tribute to the mighty king.
Page 117 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is much like the smell of Lebanon.
Page 117 - Besides, the Queen had heard (which piqued her most) How through the deepest riddles he could spy ; How all the curious arts that women boast Were quite transparent to his piercing eye ; And so the Queen had come — a royal guest — To put the sage's cunning to the test.