Hardwicke's Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 29. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1893 |
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... common air , the same experiment repeated , and an ignited match held over the stopper , each jet of gas will produce a small blue flame . A second simple method is to take a thin glass bottle , loosely tie a thin piece of caoutchouc ...
... common air , the same experiment repeated , and an ignited match held over the stopper , each jet of gas will produce a small blue flame . A second simple method is to take a thin glass bottle , loosely tie a thin piece of caoutchouc ...
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... common form , too , is remarkably subject to variation in this very character of length of posterior spines ; specimens from some localities have these processes equalling in length the rest of the lorica , while others have mere stumpy ...
... common form , too , is remarkably subject to variation in this very character of length of posterior spines ; specimens from some localities have these processes equalling in length the rest of the lorica , while others have mere stumpy ...
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... common . that I could be certain of seeing a score on almost every day , while on exceptionally fine days they were almost the commonest forms of butterfly life which emblazoned our low - lying and sun - blessed meadows . Mr. H ...
... common . that I could be certain of seeing a score on almost every day , while on exceptionally fine days they were almost the commonest forms of butterfly life which emblazoned our low - lying and sun - blessed meadows . Mr. H ...
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... common in Cornwall last summer as during the summer of 1877 , the characteristic of the latter year had not been repeated , by the insect appearing in " flights . " This is substantially true . For while the insect was seen in unusual ...
... common in Cornwall last summer as during the summer of 1877 , the characteristic of the latter year had not been repeated , by the insect appearing in " flights . " This is substantially true . For while the insect was seen in unusual ...
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... common experience that many of them are not , at all events visibly , in the immediate offspring . Some forms of this sort which have received names are , as the authors of the list say , " mutilated shells which have repaired the ...
... common experience that many of them are not , at all events visibly , in the immediate offspring . Some forms of this sort which have received names are , as the authors of the list say , " mutilated shells which have repaired the ...
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