Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1891 |
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... four eyes ( says the im- perfect note amongst my rifled papers ) , but I think it should be , four at the top of the head ( cephalo - thorax ) ; two lateral , very strong mandibles , and eight stout , smooth legs nearly an inch in ...
... four eyes ( says the im- perfect note amongst my rifled papers ) , but I think it should be , four at the top of the head ( cephalo - thorax ) ; two lateral , very strong mandibles , and eight stout , smooth legs nearly an inch in ...
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... four or five inches from the floor , fasten a shelf under the table . Six inches higher fasten a similar shelf . Now take your bellows , lay them lengthwise along the lowest shelf , so that the handles will project beyond the side of ...
... four or five inches from the floor , fasten a shelf under the table . Six inches higher fasten a similar shelf . Now take your bellows , lay them lengthwise along the lowest shelf , so that the handles will project beyond the side of ...
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... four eggs much in- cubated ; the upper storey of this tiny outbuilding was a hen - house ; hence the short beam or two in the roof of the gloomy stye . A second swallow's nest , built in the roof of an unused privy , was barely six feet ...
... four eggs much in- cubated ; the upper storey of this tiny outbuilding was a hen - house ; hence the short beam or two in the roof of the gloomy stye . A second swallow's nest , built in the roof of an unused privy , was barely six feet ...
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... four eggs unincubated , and which was composed of dry grass and grass - stems , and lined with soft fowl feathers and a little dry grass . This nest , like that of the swallow described above , was a double one ; for beneath this upper ...
... four eggs unincubated , and which was composed of dry grass and grass - stems , and lined with soft fowl feathers and a little dry grass . This nest , like that of the swallow described above , was a double one ; for beneath this upper ...
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... Bay , Wick , to Sandwick Bay , Shetland , of the length of 122 miles , and laid in 1885. The shortest being four cables across the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal , at the latter place , 12 HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE - GOSSIP .
... Bay , Wick , to Sandwick Bay , Shetland , of the length of 122 miles , and laid in 1885. The shortest being four cables across the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal , at the latter place , 12 HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE - GOSSIP .
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