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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... structure assigns to it these five petals ; or how these same petals became a white poke , as children call it , I will not say , though this be by some reckoned to have been a freak of nature for which the insects are responsible ; and ...
... structure assigns to it these five petals ; or how these same petals became a white poke , as children call it , I will not say , though this be by some reckoned to have been a freak of nature for which the insects are responsible ; and ...
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... structure of their nests may not be out of place . Great titmouse , or oxeye ( Parus major ) .- On June 10th , 1884 , I discovered in St. John's Cemetery , Elswick , a nest of this handsome bird , containing callow young , which had ...
... structure of their nests may not be out of place . Great titmouse , or oxeye ( Parus major ) .- On June 10th , 1884 , I discovered in St. John's Cemetery , Elswick , a nest of this handsome bird , containing callow young , which had ...
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... structure , and another nest accordance with her tastes or requirements con- more in structed . That this extra nest is , sometimes at least , used by the wren as a place of shelter at night towards the close of the year , I have had ...
... structure , and another nest accordance with her tastes or requirements con- more in structed . That this extra nest is , sometimes at least , used by the wren as a place of shelter at night towards the close of the year , I have had ...
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... Structure and Functions of the Nervous System ( Part I. the Spinal Cord , and Ganglia ) ; Mr. Hall Caine , Three Lectures on The Little Manx Nation ; Professor C. Hubert H. Parry , Three Lectures on the Position of Lulli , Purcell , and ...
... Structure and Functions of the Nervous System ( Part I. the Spinal Cord , and Ganglia ) ; Mr. Hall Caine , Three Lectures on The Little Manx Nation ; Professor C. Hubert H. Parry , Three Lectures on the Position of Lulli , Purcell , and ...
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... structures . ‡ Prof. Weismann may be perfectly correct so far as he maintains that heredity is the work of his germ- plasm , and the manner in which he works out this part of his theory is delightful . It is when he claims that ...
... structures . ‡ Prof. Weismann may be perfectly correct so far as he maintains that heredity is the work of his germ- plasm , and the manner in which he works out this part of his theory is delightful . It is when he claims that ...
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