Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 13. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1877 |
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Page 74
... colour and modes of occurrence have led to the adoption of different distinguishing names . Carnelians and sardes are only colour distinctions of chalcedony ; and the immense family of agates , including the onyx and sardonyx , is more ...
... colour and modes of occurrence have led to the adoption of different distinguishing names . Carnelians and sardes are only colour distinctions of chalcedony ; and the immense family of agates , including the onyx and sardonyx , is more ...
Page 94
... colours usually present in tropical countries were entirely wanting . Again , we saw a wonderful difference between different classes of animals ; and whereas birds and insects display immense minuteness and variety of colour , mammalia ...
... colours usually present in tropical countries were entirely wanting . Again , we saw a wonderful difference between different classes of animals ; and whereas birds and insects display immense minuteness and variety of colour , mammalia ...
Page 228
... colour to that of the plant or animal on which it is feeding . We have found it of a reddish - straw colour in the harvest - field , quite green on green plants , and perfectly crimson on - or more correctly in the skin of -the human ...
... colour to that of the plant or animal on which it is feeding . We have found it of a reddish - straw colour in the harvest - field , quite green on green plants , and perfectly crimson on - or more correctly in the skin of -the human ...
Contents
HALFHOURS AT THE SEASIDE or Recreations with Marine Objects | 45 |
THE AQUARIUM its Inhabitants Structure and Management Illustrated | 186 |
NOTES ON COLLECTING AND PRESERVING NATURAL HISTORY OBJECTS | 211 |
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