Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köide |
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... a living incubus , a hairy , formless 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 ...
... a living incubus , a hairy , formless 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 ...
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Being near mid - day it was untenanted , but the threads were littered with mothwings and other remains of insects , but I noticed that small birds flew through it without hesitation . From time to time I saw other examples ...
Being near mid - day it was untenanted , but the threads were littered with mothwings and other remains of insects , but I noticed that small birds flew through it without hesitation . From time to time I saw other examples ...
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... 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 without a doubt insects always enjoy to dive to the bottom of it .
... 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 without a doubt insects always enjoy to dive to the bottom of it .
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... as dipping - tubes , test - tubes , capillary - tubes , tubes for collecting small insects , & c . , funnels , and a host of other similar articles , of which I hope to say further in another paper if the Editor can spare me space .
... as dipping - tubes , test - tubes , capillary - tubes , tubes for collecting small insects , & c . , funnels , and a host of other similar articles , of which I hope to say further in another paper if the Editor can spare me space .
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... and looked uninviting enough , yet their dank branches formed the happy hunting - ground of numbers of blue - tits , and their long - tailed cousins , who called merrily to one another as they searched the branches for insects .
... and looked uninviting enough , yet their dank branches formed the happy hunting - ground of numbers of blue - tits , and their long - tailed cousins , who called merrily to one another as they searched the branches for insects .
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| Pealkiri | Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köide |
| Editors | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor |
| Publisher | Robert Hardwicke, 1891 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 8 jaan. 2010 |
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