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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... examination of Aquatic or Transparent Objects , & c .; a pair of Adjusting Forceps , fitting into the Stage ; a pair of small Brass Forceps and Glass Slides ; all fitting into a MAHOGANY CABINET , and Drawer with Rack - work for two ...
... examination of Aquatic or Transparent Objects , & c .; a pair of Adjusting Forceps , fitting into the Stage ; a pair of small Brass Forceps and Glass Slides ; all fitting into a MAHOGANY CABINET , and Drawer with Rack - work for two ...
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... examining my collection , the spiders at once attracted his attention , and he seemed so struck with the specimens I then had , that he requested permission to bring his naturalist to see them , and to give him some information as to ...
... examining my collection , the spiders at once attracted his attention , and he seemed so struck with the specimens I then had , that he requested permission to bring his naturalist to see them , and to give him some information as to ...
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... examination of the organs of flight in a bee or wasp under the microscope discloses the fact , that the anterior margin of the lower wing on each side of the body is lined with a series of hard horny hooks , precisely the same in ...
... examination of the organs of flight in a bee or wasp under the microscope discloses the fact , that the anterior margin of the lower wing on each side of the body is lined with a series of hard horny hooks , precisely the same in ...
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... examine their weight or size , fixes upon a twig or other object which often appears disproportionate to her size and strength , and attaching a line to it , as quickly scrambles back again , dragging the twig after her . This line she ...
... examine their weight or size , fixes upon a twig or other object which often appears disproportionate to her size and strength , and attaching a line to it , as quickly scrambles back again , dragging the twig after her . This line she ...
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... examination of a number of these egg- cases in various stages of growth will , I feel assured , convince the observer that what is said in the books about " the difficulty the female has in getting rid of this compound offspring " is an ...
... examination of a number of these egg- cases in various stages of growth will , I feel assured , convince the observer that what is said in the books about " the difficulty the female has in getting rid of this compound offspring " is an ...
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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...