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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... remarkable feature about metallic re- flection , is the amount of light reflected ; whereas white paper only reflects 40 per cent . , polished silver reflects 92 per cent . of the incident light . It is these peculiarities in the nature ...
... remarkable feature about metallic re- flection , is the amount of light reflected ; whereas white paper only reflects 40 per cent . , polished silver reflects 92 per cent . of the incident light . It is these peculiarities in the nature ...
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... remarkable vitality , the following ( communicated to me by G. B. Wollaston , Esq . , of Chislehurst ) will show . He informs me that he had a plant of L. squamaria in a flower - pot for about twenty years , during which time it never ...
... remarkable vitality , the following ( communicated to me by G. B. Wollaston , Esq . , of Chislehurst ) will show . He informs me that he had a plant of L. squamaria in a flower - pot for about twenty years , during which time it never ...
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... remarkable scarcity of fungi during the past season . As he has remarked , this is more particularly noticeable with regard to the pasture species , always excepting the common mush- room ( Agaricus campestris ) , which seemed to be ...
... remarkable scarcity of fungi during the past season . As he has remarked , this is more particularly noticeable with regard to the pasture species , always excepting the common mush- room ( Agaricus campestris ) , which seemed to be ...
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... remarkable creature in Stormont Loch , Blairgowrie . On examining a fragment of milfoil , which I had dredged from the bottom of the loch , in a zoophyte trough , with the water , I observed the E. tetrathrix busy nibbling at a colony ...
... remarkable creature in Stormont Loch , Blairgowrie . On examining a fragment of milfoil , which I had dredged from the bottom of the loch , in a zoophyte trough , with the water , I observed the E. tetrathrix busy nibbling at a colony ...
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... remarkable antennæ . The body is Fig . 15. - Lichomolpus sabella Q. Fig . 16. - Posterior antennæ of Lichomolpus sabellæ . Fig . 17. - Anterior antennæ . Fig . 18. - Pair of Swimming Feet . and interposed an upright rod , so that two ...
... remarkable antennæ . The body is Fig . 15. - Lichomolpus sabella Q. Fig . 16. - Posterior antennæ of Lichomolpus sabellæ . Fig . 17. - Anterior antennæ . Fig . 18. - Pair of Swimming Feet . and interposed an upright rod , so that two ...
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