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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... living incubus , a hairy , form- less horror , and with one stab of its poison fangs recalled the dying agony of an insect hecatomb . But the still stranger and yet most true story of the gregarious spider of Paraguay is almost unknown ...
... living incubus , a hairy , form- less horror , and with one stab of its poison fangs recalled the dying agony of an insect hecatomb . But the still stranger and yet most true story of the gregarious spider of Paraguay is almost unknown ...
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... living with the United States ' minister in a very large house , having , as is the fashion in that part of the world , an enclosed garden , the patio , in its centre ; and there I found to my delight six of these wonderful webs one ...
... living with the United States ' minister in a very large house , having , as is the fashion in that part of the world , an enclosed garden , the patio , in its centre ; and there I found to my delight six of these wonderful webs one ...
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... living in Dover . There are five or six good- sized patches of it , if I remember right . They are so conspicuous when in flower , that they may be seen from the hills on the opposite side of the valley . I had noticed that the ...
... living in Dover . There are five or six good- sized patches of it , if I remember right . They are so conspicuous when in flower , that they may be seen from the hills on the opposite side of the valley . I had noticed that the ...
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... living or in spirits , in exchange for British earthworms correctly named ( including Allurus tetra- drus , Allolobophora chlorotica , Lumbricus rubellus , the Brandling and others ) ; sent alive or preserved . - Rev . Hilderic Friend ...
... living or in spirits , in exchange for British earthworms correctly named ( including Allurus tetra- drus , Allolobophora chlorotica , Lumbricus rubellus , the Brandling and others ) ; sent alive or preserved . - Rev . Hilderic Friend ...
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... living veins , or causes its coagulation . No function is too high or too low for its all - pervading influence ; just as the law of gravitation acts upon the minutest speck of matter , as inflexibly as it acts upon the solar system . I ...
... living veins , or causes its coagulation . No function is too high or too low for its all - pervading influence ; just as the law of gravitation acts upon the minutest speck of matter , as inflexibly as it acts upon the solar system . I ...
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