Hardwicke's Science-gossipRobert Hardwicke, 1885 |
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Page 6
... road lamps was darkened by a deposit of very small flies that had flung themselves into the flame and perished ; and that the ground around the lamps was strewn with thousands of their bodies . A multitude of similar instances may be ...
... road lamps was darkened by a deposit of very small flies that had flung themselves into the flame and perished ; and that the ground around the lamps was strewn with thousands of their bodies . A multitude of similar instances may be ...
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... road , and with it Cochlicopa tridens , while close by a stream rather nearer to Reigate we found also the variety crystallina and some specimens of Helix arbustorum . Hyalina ( or Zonites ) glabra was very abundant in Surrey , and in ...
... road , and with it Cochlicopa tridens , while close by a stream rather nearer to Reigate we found also the variety crystallina and some specimens of Helix arbustorum . Hyalina ( or Zonites ) glabra was very abundant in Surrey , and in ...
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... Road , Nottingham . WANTED , to purchase secondhand copy of Jeffrey's " British Conchology . " - C . W. White , 2 Woodrow Circus , Pollokshield , Glasgow . WANTED , any species of Naiades from Asia , Africa , South America , and ...
... Road , Nottingham . WANTED , to purchase secondhand copy of Jeffrey's " British Conchology . " - C . W. White , 2 Woodrow Circus , Pollokshield , Glasgow . WANTED , any species of Naiades from Asia , Africa , South America , and ...
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... Road , Glasgow , and the stoppage of the music in the churches having hydraulic organs , we are told that " sudden thaw after the severe frost caused the bursts . " Another popular fallacy , not quite so elementary , is continually ...
... Road , Glasgow , and the stoppage of the music in the churches having hydraulic organs , we are told that " sudden thaw after the severe frost caused the bursts . " Another popular fallacy , not quite so elementary , is continually ...
Page 43
... Road , Bedford Park . W. NIGHT HERON IN SCOTLAND . On the 14th November last , a fine specimen of the Night Heron , ( Nycticorax griseus , L. ) was presented in the flesh to the Kelvingrove Museum , Glasgow . The bird , which was a ...
... Road , Bedford Park . W. NIGHT HERON IN SCOTLAND . On the 14th November last , a fine specimen of the Night Heron , ( Nycticorax griseus , L. ) was presented in the flesh to the Kelvingrove Museum , Glasgow . The bird , which was a ...
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