Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, Volume 4Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1869 - Natural history |
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... appears to have suddenly become necessary to raise the mound two or three inches higher , and also to widen the base considerably . Forthwith are seen swarming out upon the pavement hosts of ants , who go rapidly to work , and bringing ...
... appears to have suddenly become necessary to raise the mound two or three inches higher , and also to widen the base considerably . Forthwith are seen swarming out upon the pavement hosts of ants , who go rapidly to work , and bringing ...
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... appear to emerge as rays from one point . Whether this tiny but powerful instrument exists in the other members of the homopterous family- the criads , aphrophoræ , & c . - I am not aware ; but that it is in full force in birds and the ...
... appear to emerge as rays from one point . Whether this tiny but powerful instrument exists in the other members of the homopterous family- the criads , aphrophoræ , & c . - I am not aware ; but that it is in full force in birds and the ...
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... appears to be the general one . This end does not seem to be warmth , or protection from frost . For evergreens , which endure the frost , are precisely those plants which possess the fewest hairs ; and these distributed on that part of ...
... appears to be the general one . This end does not seem to be warmth , or protection from frost . For evergreens , which endure the frost , are precisely those plants which possess the fewest hairs ; and these distributed on that part of ...
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... appears to seize her , and she may be observed on some occasion , perhaps after a long rest , to descend suddenly to the earth ; she then takes a seemingly purposeless scamper over the materials beneath her nest , and passing many twigs ...
... appears to seize her , and she may be observed on some occasion , perhaps after a long rest , to descend suddenly to the earth ; she then takes a seemingly purposeless scamper over the materials beneath her nest , and passing many twigs ...
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... appear at Exeter on the trial as a witness of her sanity ! " -Kirby and Spence's Entomology . ZOOLOGY . A KESTREL'S DEFENCE . - A remarkable instance of fearlessness in a kestrel in defending its nest , came under my observation in the ...
... appear at Exeter on the trial as a witness of her sanity ! " -Kirby and Spence's Entomology . ZOOLOGY . A KESTREL'S DEFENCE . - A remarkable instance of fearlessness in a kestrel in defending its nest , came under my observation in the ...
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Page lxii - Calabria, covered with very recent breccia, the calcareous chain of the Apennines, the country of Pignerol, the coasts of Portugal and Greece, those of Peru and Terra Firma, afford striking proofs of this assertion.
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Page lx - Similar phenomena were observed in ancient times by the inhabitants of those parts of Greece and Asia Minor abounding with caverns, crevices, and subterraneous rivers. Nature, in her uniform progress, everywhere suggests the same ideas of the causes of earthquakes, and the means by which man, forgetting the measure of his strength, pretends to diminish the effect of the subterraneous explosions. What a great Roman naturalist has said of the utility of wells and caverns* is repeated in the New World...