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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... is not our object or ambition to become what is called a " scientific journal . " Ours is a " GOSSIP , " and it is our aim to gossip freely , in as untechnical a manner as possible , on ! scientific subjects , so that even those of our.
... is not our object or ambition to become what is called a " scientific journal . " Ours is a " GOSSIP , " and it is our aim to gossip freely , in as untechnical a manner as possible , on ! scientific subjects , so that even those of our.
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... called into requisition for the production of their pictures has enabled us to bring subjects of interest before the people , from which till of late they were hopelessly excluded . " - Vide The Churchman's Companion , vol . xxii . , p ...
... called into requisition for the production of their pictures has enabled us to bring subjects of interest before the people , from which till of late they were hopelessly excluded . " - Vide The Churchman's Companion , vol . xxii . , p ...
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... called " a display of negrophilism . " But if they were , this would not affect their validity . Three distinct results are said to accompany intensity of colour ; it is shown that they do not , and this is negrophilism . Lastly ...
... called " a display of negrophilism . " But if they were , this would not affect their validity . Three distinct results are said to accompany intensity of colour ; it is shown that they do not , and this is negrophilism . Lastly ...
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... called the " Drummer " -the noise it makes keeping people awake all night . These four species , all of them foreigners , belong to the genus Blatta ; but the British species of Cockroach have been very properly separated from Blatta by ...
... called the " Drummer " -the noise it makes keeping people awake all night . These four species , all of them foreigners , belong to the genus Blatta ; but the British species of Cockroach have been very properly separated from Blatta by ...
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... Foraminifera , in the Annals of Natural History for 1860 , the following occurs relative to the so - called " beads " 18 [ JAN . 1 , 1868 . HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE - GOSSIP . The Great Waterfall at Rangbodde The Great Waterfall at Rangbodde.
... Foraminifera , in the Annals of Natural History for 1860 , the following occurs relative to the so - called " beads " 18 [ JAN . 1 , 1868 . HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE - GOSSIP . The Great Waterfall at Rangbodde The Great Waterfall at Rangbodde.
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