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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... BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON THE BRITISH DOG . RESEARCHES INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH DOG . From Ancient Laws , Charters , and Historical Records . With Original Anecdotes and Illustrations of the Nature and Attri- butes of the Dog , from the ...
... BEAUTIFUL BOOK ON THE BRITISH DOG . RESEARCHES INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH DOG . From Ancient Laws , Charters , and Historical Records . With Original Anecdotes and Illustrations of the Nature and Attri- butes of the Dog , from the ...
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... beautiful colours , and prevent their shrivelling up . As I was very suc- cessful in my attempts , perhaps the method I adopted more than forty years ago , while residing in the Isle of France , may help him . Before answering his ...
... beautiful colours , and prevent their shrivelling up . As I was very suc- cessful in my attempts , perhaps the method I adopted more than forty years ago , while residing in the Isle of France , may help him . Before answering his ...
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... beautiful and complete an example of contrivance as can be found in the whole range of creation . The wing of which the quill pen once formed a portion was given to the bird for the purpose of flight ; in other words , by raising and ...
... beautiful and complete an example of contrivance as can be found in the whole range of creation . The wing of which the quill pen once formed a portion was given to the bird for the purpose of flight ; in other words , by raising and ...
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... beautiful . We confess to a liking for the woodcuts , for figures of microscopical objects published in microscopical books are not always either true or beautiful ; but some of the figures in this work , although they have been freely ...
... beautiful . We confess to a liking for the woodcuts , for figures of microscopical objects published in microscopical books are not always either true or beautiful ; but some of the figures in this work , although they have been freely ...
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... beautiful ones which clothe the leaves of Deutzia scabra , seem , together with their general office , to be designed for the orna- mentation of the plant . Perhaps these few remarks may seem to draw the attention of some of the readers ...
... beautiful ones which clothe the leaves of Deutzia scabra , seem , together with their general office , to be designed for the orna- mentation of the plant . Perhaps these few remarks may seem to draw the attention of some of the readers ...
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Page 109 - COLLECTION CATALOGUE for NATURALISTS. A Ruled Book for keeping a permanent Record of Objects in any branch of Natural History, with Appendix for recording interesting particulars, and lettered pages for general Index. Strongly bound, 200 pages, Ts. 6d. ; 300 pages, 1or. ; and 2s. 6d. extra for every additional 100 pages. Working Catalogues, is. 6d. each. COMPANION TO THE WRITING DESK. See " How to Address Titled People.
Page 43 - Directions showing which are the best adapted for the Hothouse, Greenhouse, Open Air Fernery, or Wardian Case. With an Index of Genera, Species, and Synonyms.
Page 64 - THOMSON. Handy Book of the Flower-Garden : being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in FlowerGardens all the year round. Embracing all classes of Gardens, from the largest to the smallest. With Engraved Plans, illustrative of the various systems of Grouping in Beds and Borders. By DAVID THOMSON, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, KT, at Drumlanrig.
Page 59 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
Page 109 - MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS: How to Distinguish easily the Difference between Edible and Poisonous Fungi. Two large Sheets, containing Figures of 29 Edible and 31 Poisonous Species, drawn the natural size, and Coloured from Living Specimens. With descriptive letterpress, 6s. ; on canvas, in cloth case for pocket, los.
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.
Page vii - RESEARCHES INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH DOG. From Ancient Laws, Charters, and Historical Records. With Original Anecdotes and Illustrations of the Nature and Attributes of the Dog, from the Poets and Prose Writers of Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Times.
Page 64 - HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE: a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a means of Amusement and Instruction.
Page 109 - RUST, SMUT, MILDEW, AND MOULD. An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic Fungi.
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...