Natural Science, 12. köideMacmillan & Company, 1898 |
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... North Pacific , and all true naturalists are anxiously watching the negotiations now in progress between the British and American nations to prevent the complete sacrifice of these animals to the demands of commerce . At present they ...
... North Pacific , and all true naturalists are anxiously watching the negotiations now in progress between the British and American nations to prevent the complete sacrifice of these animals to the demands of commerce . At present they ...
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... north of Scotland and the Shetland Islands , and then south to the Canaries and Cape Verde , along the West African coast to the Cape , and to the currents of the Antarctic . Special investigations will be made in that region where the ...
... north of Scotland and the Shetland Islands , and then south to the Canaries and Cape Verde , along the West African coast to the Cape , and to the currents of the Antarctic . Special investigations will be made in that region where the ...
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... North America . Those good people who ask us to use plain English names , instead of crackjaw Graeco - Latin com- pounds , would , we imagine , be hard put to it to decide what Mr Dolbear means by a cricket . The only sure thing is that ...
... North America . Those good people who ask us to use plain English names , instead of crackjaw Graeco - Latin com- pounds , would , we imagine , be hard put to it to decide what Mr Dolbear means by a cricket . The only sure thing is that ...
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... North Downs , but always at a great elevation , comparatively speaking , are patches of flint gravel , in which one also occasionally finds Pliocene ironstone and the well - known Oldbury stone . The flints are stained a deep ochreous ...
... North Downs , but always at a great elevation , comparatively speaking , are patches of flint gravel , in which one also occasionally finds Pliocene ironstone and the well - known Oldbury stone . The flints are stained a deep ochreous ...
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... North Downs has suffered greatly by denudation in modern times , consequently the flints are not likely to be found on the wasted portions , but we do find them scattered over the surface of the unwasted portions . As to whether all the ...
... North Downs has suffered greatly by denudation in modern times , consequently the flints are not likely to be found on the wasted portions , but we do find them scattered over the surface of the unwasted portions . As to whether all the ...
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