Hardwicke's Science-gossipRobert Hardwicke, 1885 |
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Page 5
... mentioned as a point of weighty importance that , in the spring of the same year ( the exact date is unknown ) , a frightful eruption of the Skapta Jökul , in Iceland , took place . This glow seemed in many respects to have resembled ...
... mentioned as a point of weighty importance that , in the spring of the same year ( the exact date is unknown ) , a frightful eruption of the Skapta Jökul , in Iceland , took place . This glow seemed in many respects to have resembled ...
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... mention a shrub narrowly associated with the legendary lore of this place ; it is the Glastonbury thorn , a variety of Cratagus oxyacantha . Its origin is obscure , and even that highly - respected individual , " the oldest On Christmas ...
... mention a shrub narrowly associated with the legendary lore of this place ; it is the Glastonbury thorn , a variety of Cratagus oxyacantha . Its origin is obscure , and even that highly - respected individual , " the oldest On Christmas ...
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... mentioned as growing in Scotland and Wales . The Jersey buttercup is not thought to be Ranunculus charophyllus , L. , but R. flabellatus , Dsf . var . Europaa . R. sardous , Cr . , 1763 , rightly replaces R. Philonotis , Ehrh . 1788 ...
... mentioned as growing in Scotland and Wales . The Jersey buttercup is not thought to be Ranunculus charophyllus , L. , but R. flabellatus , Dsf . var . Europaa . R. sardous , Cr . , 1763 , rightly replaces R. Philonotis , Ehrh . 1788 ...
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... mentioned twenty - seven nests of the wasps , fifteen belonged to the Vespa vulgaris , six to the V. sylvestris , five to the V. rufa , and one to the V. Germanica . In addition to these were two others , small secondary nests of the V ...
... mentioned twenty - seven nests of the wasps , fifteen belonged to the Vespa vulgaris , six to the V. sylvestris , five to the V. rufa , and one to the V. Germanica . In addition to these were two others , small secondary nests of the V ...
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... mentioned dyke at no great distance from that of V. Germanica . It also was situated in a cavity immediately behind the facing stones of the dyke , being completely exposed on the removal of a few of them that lay in front of it . In it ...
... mentioned dyke at no great distance from that of V. Germanica . It also was situated in a cavity immediately behind the facing stones of the dyke , being completely exposed on the removal of a few of them that lay in front of it . In it ...
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