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On Food: Being Lectures Delivered at the South Kensington Museum - Page 54
by Edwin Lankester - 1873 - 385 pages
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 11

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1872 - 442 pages
...good naturalists are ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...his curiosity excited and his interest in the world alx>ut him taking the form of a little study of some branch of this sort of knowledge that has won...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 10

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1871 - 580 pages
...good naturalists are ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension, but natural enouglrand direct enough in their records of facts, their questioning and answering each other concerning...
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A handy-book of rock names

George Henry Kinahan - 1873 - 238 pages
...naturalists are . technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and arc not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension, but natural enough and direct enough in then* records of facts, their questioning and answering each other concerning curiosities of nature....
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The Preparation & Mounting of Microscopic Objects

Thomas Davies (microscopist.) - Microscope and microscopy - 1874 - 246 pages
...good naturalists are; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...history and science, will probably find his curiosity excned and his interest in the world about him taking the form of a little study of some branch of...
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The Preparation & Mounting of Microscopic Objects

Thomas Davies (microscopist.) - Microscope and microscopy - 1874 - 230 pages
...naturalists are ; technical enough to make the gen•eral reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...nature. The reader who buys for himself their monthly Dudget of notes and discussions upon pleasant points in natural history and science, will probably...
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Flowers: Their Origin, Shapes, Perfumes, and Colours

John Ellor Taylor - Botany - 1878 - 402 pages
...good naturalists are ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...history and science, will probably find his curiosity excited'and his interest in the world about him taking the form of a little study of some branch of...
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English folk-lore

Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...good naturalists are ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...budget of notes and discussions upon pleasant points in natura! history and science, will probably find his curiosity excited and his interest in the world...
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Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...good naturalists are; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...history and science, will probably find his curiosity axcited and his interest in the world about him taking the form of a little study of some branch of...
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Wild Flowers Worth Notice

Phebe Lankester - Wild flowers - 1879 - 298 pages
...good naturalists are ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension,...answering each other concerning curiosities of nature. journal, i month. The reader who buys for himself their monthly budget of notesand discussions upon...
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Half-hours in the Green Lanes: a Book for a Country Stroll

John Ellor Taylor - 1879 - 392 pages
...good naturalistsare ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension, but natural enough and direct enough intheir records of facts, their questioning and answering each other concerning curiosities of nature....
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