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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... moths , English and Cana- dian , in exchange for diptera , English or foreign . -Miss G. R. , 25 Cleveland Square , London , W. WANTED , the skull of a dog . - Parritt , 8 Whitehall Park , Hornsey Rise , N. FOR exchange , Cambrian and ...
... moths , English and Cana- dian , in exchange for diptera , English or foreign . -Miss G. R. , 25 Cleveland Square , London , W. WANTED , the skull of a dog . - Parritt , 8 Whitehall Park , Hornsey Rise , N. FOR exchange , Cambrian and ...
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... moths were besporting themselves amid fragrant flowers , which abounded in every direction . I may remark that I succeeded in taking a splendid series of specimens of these beautiful dragon - flies , which never fail to call forth a ...
... moths were besporting themselves amid fragrant flowers , which abounded in every direction . I may remark that I succeeded in taking a splendid series of specimens of these beautiful dragon - flies , which never fail to call forth a ...
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... moth , to whom alone the honey is accessible , and who in obtaining it must cling to the centre of the flower and thus effect fertilization . The drawing ( Fig . 27 ) was made from a common orange lily . The honey is secreted by the ...
... moth , to whom alone the honey is accessible , and who in obtaining it must cling to the centre of the flower and thus effect fertilization . The drawing ( Fig . 27 ) was made from a common orange lily . The honey is secreted by the ...
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... Moths , " the young larvæ emerging from them in no way differing from the general - I may say invariable -type . The egg is ... moth may lay them there , but at the same time it is by far more probable that the leaf had become sere and ...
... Moths , " the young larvæ emerging from them in no way differing from the general - I may say invariable -type . The egg is ... moth may lay them there , but at the same time it is by far more probable that the leaf had become sere and ...
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... moth ) magnified sixteen diameters , to which insect D. vinula bears a close relationship in this particular . When the larva is about to become a pupa , it is exceedingly curious to note that , in common with the majority of other ...
... moth ) magnified sixteen diameters , to which insect D. vinula bears a close relationship in this particular . When the larva is about to become a pupa , it is exceedingly curious to note that , in common with the majority of other ...
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