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... natural history attained some precision , the term " fish , " however , was often misapplied , and was used to include all aquatic animals whatever ; thus cetaceous , molluscous , and crustaceous animals were most erroneously admitted ...
... natural history attained some precision , the term " fish , " however , was often misapplied , and was used to include all aquatic animals whatever ; thus cetaceous , molluscous , and crustaceous animals were most erroneously admitted ...
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... natural state , restores to the blood of fishes its vital and arterial qualities , by means of the oxygen contained in the air , which the water holds in suspension ; the machinery for this purpose , in fishes , being within the gills ...
... natural state , restores to the blood of fishes its vital and arterial qualities , by means of the oxygen contained in the air , which the water holds in suspension ; the machinery for this purpose , in fishes , being within the gills ...
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... Natural System of the late Baron Cuvier , where they form the last class of vertebrated animals , divisible into two grand families of bony and cartilaginous fishes , or of acanthopterygians and chondrop- terygians , the first of which ...
... Natural System of the late Baron Cuvier , where they form the last class of vertebrated animals , divisible into two grand families of bony and cartilaginous fishes , or of acanthopterygians and chondrop- terygians , the first of which ...
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... a pelvis which is immediately suspended to the bones of the shoulder . IV . Malacopterygii Apodes . This order is principally confined to one natural family , of which the fa- miliar type is the murana , or eel , or xiv INTRODUCTION .
... a pelvis which is immediately suspended to the bones of the shoulder . IV . Malacopterygii Apodes . This order is principally confined to one natural family , of which the fa- miliar type is the murana , or eel , or xiv INTRODUCTION .
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... Natural His- tory , " mentions the reproductive power , and inde- pendent vitality , with reference to the amphibia . The extraordinary strength of the reproductive power in several amphibia , and the astonishing facility with which the ...
... Natural His- tory , " mentions the reproductive power , and inde- pendent vitality , with reference to the amphibia . The extraordinary strength of the reproductive power in several amphibia , and the astonishing facility with which the ...
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 192 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...