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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... wood near the bark was quite sound , but the central part of the wood , deprived of sap and exposed to the air , had become touchwood . Has a fungus anything to do with this process of disintegration , or how is it effected ? WET - ROT ...
... wood near the bark was quite sound , but the central part of the wood , deprived of sap and exposed to the air , had become touchwood . Has a fungus anything to do with this process of disintegration , or how is it effected ? WET - ROT ...
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... wood gets the dry - rot , or , in other words , damp develops a fungus in dead wood , which soon crumbles it down to the well - known russet powder . As this dry - rot of timber cannot be called a disease , so in living trees the brown ...
... wood gets the dry - rot , or , in other words , damp develops a fungus in dead wood , which soon crumbles it down to the well - known russet powder . As this dry - rot of timber cannot be called a disease , so in living trees the brown ...
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... wood . Here the Forest is appreciable in all its grandeur ; the great thick oak woods crown the eminences , and mighty beeches stand out in solitary majesty into the sea of fern which swells in long undulations deep into the hidden ...
... wood . Here the Forest is appreciable in all its grandeur ; the great thick oak woods crown the eminences , and mighty beeches stand out in solitary majesty into the sea of fern which swells in long undulations deep into the hidden ...
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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