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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... usually humming birds not half its own size , and they are none of its own trapping , since it does not form a web . This may not be true of every variety , but the spin- nerets of all I examined were of quite rudimentary development ...
... usually humming birds not half its own size , and they are none of its own trapping , since it does not form a web . This may not be true of every variety , but the spin- nerets of all I examined were of quite rudimentary development ...
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... usually built at a considerable elevation within farm outhouses , sheds , and hemmels ; being built against and adherent to the beams , couples and rafters , as also other portions of the woodwork and stonework of the roof ; though , of ...
... usually built at a considerable elevation within farm outhouses , sheds , and hemmels ; being built against and adherent to the beams , couples and rafters , as also other portions of the woodwork and stonework of the roof ; though , of ...
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... usually known as the acanthus . Thus I found that the Greek regarded the white acanthus as being similar to if not the same as bedegar . This idea was soon abundantly confirmed , for I read that when a Roman dealer in herbs saw the ...
... usually known as the acanthus . Thus I found that the Greek regarded the white acanthus as being similar to if not the same as bedegar . This idea was soon abundantly confirmed , for I read that when a Roman dealer in herbs saw the ...
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... usually warp , peat , or sand free from pebbles ; so the quiet glade is the theatre of many a molluscan tragedy . ( To be continued . ) A NOTES ON NEW BOOKS . MERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNING - WORK , by Dr. Henry C. McCook ...
... usually warp , peat , or sand free from pebbles ; so the quiet glade is the theatre of many a molluscan tragedy . ( To be continued . ) A NOTES ON NEW BOOKS . MERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNING - WORK , by Dr. Henry C. McCook ...
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... usually show from the seed case . Is not the law laid down a little too absolutely by some of our ( more or less ) scientific men in some of these matters ? Evidently here are instances in which light has not been instrumental in ...
... usually show from the seed case . Is not the law laid down a little too absolutely by some of our ( more or less ) scientific men in some of these matters ? Evidently here are instances in which light has not been instrumental in ...
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