Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 24. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1888 |
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... close on the spherical body of a monad a little below its centre ; and when it so happens that the jaws fail to clutch it , the spherical body rebounds back into the crop , just as a person grasping at an indiarubber L bo Z -V CC -J a ...
... close on the spherical body of a monad a little below its centre ; and when it so happens that the jaws fail to clutch it , the spherical body rebounds back into the crop , just as a person grasping at an indiarubber L bo Z -V CC -J a ...
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... close to its long foot . The foot itself ( Fig . 4ƒ ) is long and flexible , and is capable of great expansion and very swift contraction , for on the least alarm the creature retreats into its tube with lightning speed . A longitudinal ...
... close to its long foot . The foot itself ( Fig . 4ƒ ) is long and flexible , and is capable of great expansion and very swift contraction , for on the least alarm the creature retreats into its tube with lightning speed . A longitudinal ...
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... close ; so close indeed , that in the cavity of a fully - developed scale I have never found any extraneous matter ( I shall , however , refer to a younger scale later on ) . Fig . 9 is a fair example of the numerous scales I have ...
... close ; so close indeed , that in the cavity of a fully - developed scale I have never found any extraneous matter ( I shall , however , refer to a younger scale later on ) . Fig . 9 is a fair example of the numerous scales I have ...
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... close for sheep or lambs to pass , but free to rabbits . In dry weather they will eagerly devour almost anything that is succulent , and these little plantations might be watered , if necessary , during Australian droughts . WOLVES IN ...
... close for sheep or lambs to pass , but free to rabbits . In dry weather they will eagerly devour almost anything that is succulent , and these little plantations might be watered , if necessary , during Australian droughts . WOLVES IN ...
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... close of summer , and fell very early in autumn ; and next spring , 1881 , the tree was quite dead . I should mention that it did not put out its leaves just so early in the spring after being girdled , as it would otherwise have done ...
... close of summer , and fell very early in autumn ; and next spring , 1881 , the tree was quite dead . I should mention that it did not put out its leaves just so early in the spring after being girdled , as it would otherwise have done ...
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