The Victorian Naturalist, 4. köideField Naturalists Club of Victoria., 1888 |
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... Island , Expedition to 128 , 129 Australian Lichens 88 Fauna - 135 Biology 14 Flora - 140 Birds ' - Eggs , Coloration of - 189 General Results - 162 Birds , the Protection of - 121 Narrative - · 146 Botanical Trip to the Wimmera 169 ...
... Island , Expedition to 128 , 129 Australian Lichens 88 Fauna - 135 Biology 14 Flora - 140 Birds ' - Eggs , Coloration of - 189 General Results - 162 Birds , the Protection of - 121 Narrative - · 146 Botanical Trip to the Wimmera 169 ...
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... island through many a coming year . In conclusion , he congratulated the Club that so worthy a successor had been found for their esteemed late president in Professor Lucas , whose special learning in the natural sciences , and whose ...
... island through many a coming year . In conclusion , he congratulated the Club that so worthy a successor had been found for their esteemed late president in Professor Lucas , whose special learning in the natural sciences , and whose ...
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... Island and Mount Wellington , Tasmania . After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated . The adjourned annual meeting of the Club was held at the Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening , 13th June , 1887 . The president , the Rev ...
... Island and Mount Wellington , Tasmania . After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated . The adjourned annual meeting of the Club was held at the Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening , 13th June , 1887 . The president , the Rev ...
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... Island , showing the locality for the proposed expedition by the members of the Club in November next . By Mr. C. French , F.L.S. , birds from North Queensland , viz . , Ptiloris Victoria , Victoria rifle - bird , and Megapodus tumulus ...
... Island , showing the locality for the proposed expedition by the members of the Club in November next . By Mr. C. French , F.L.S. , birds from North Queensland , viz . , Ptiloris Victoria , Victoria rifle - bird , and Megapodus tumulus ...
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... steamer Lady Loch might convey the exploring party to King's Island in November next ; it was promised that inquiries would be made , and a reply given as soon as possible . The following persons were duly elected members of the Club.
... steamer Lady Loch might convey the exploring party to King's Island in November next ; it was promised that inquiries would be made , and a reply given as soon as possible . The following persons were duly elected members of the Club.
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12 numbers A. H. S. Lucas A. J. Campbell acacia Acanthiza Acharius Albacutya amongst Australian Birds Baron von Mueller beautiful Brown Caladenia camp Cape Wickham Club of Victoria coast collected colony colour conversazione covered Creek dense Dimboola district east eggs Eriostemon Ettrick River excursion F. G. A. Barnard F. M. Campbell feet fern Field Naturalists flora flowers fossil Fraser River French fungi genus Gippsland Gould granite grass ground hills honey-eater inches insects King Island Labellum Labillardiére Lagoon Lake Albacutya land larvæ leaves lichens lighthouse lines Linné mallee Melbourne Messrs MICROSCOPES miles Mount Natural History nest notes Nylander Oology orchids paper Pileus plants Queensland Royal Society's Hall sand sand-hills scrub Sea Elephant seen sepals shells shore snake Society South Wales species Stem Tasmania Tern ti-tree trees Victoria Victorian Naturalist wallaby whilst Wickham Woods Yellow Rock
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Page 22 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 106 - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair.
Page 106 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Page 106 - Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ?—surely not! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair; I started up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed.
Page 24 - ... to an extent not hitherto recognised, exacting from every antecedent its equivalent consequent, from every consequent its equivalent antecedent, and bringing vital as well as physical phenomena under the dominion of that law of causal connection which, so far as the human understanding has yet pierced, asserts itself everywhere in nature.
Page 23 - Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred, and may yet occur in the heavens; though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins; the molecules out of which these systems are built — the foundation stones of the material universe — remain unbroken and unworn.
Page 27 - This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart. Patience ! Give it time To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides.
Page 24 - The vegetable world, though drawing almost all its nutriment from invisible sources, was proved incompetent to generate anew either matter or force. Its matter is for the most part transmuted gas ; its force transformed solar force. The animal world was proved to be equally uncreative, all its motive energies being referred to the combustion of its food. The activity of each animal as a whole was proved to be the transferred activity of its molecules. The muscles were shown to be stores of mechanical...
Page 23 - What an enormous revolution would be made in biology, if physics or chemistry could supply the physiologist with a means of making out the molecular structure of living tissues comparable to that' which the spectroscope affords to the inquirer into the nature of the heavenly bodies. At the present moment the constituents of our own bodies are more remote from our ken than those of Sirius, in this respect.
Page 24 - ... eagle. This was the work of the physicist: then came the conquests of the comparative anatomist and physiologist, revealing the structure of every animal, and the function of every organ in the whole biological series, from the lowest zoophyte up to man.