Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 2. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1866 |
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... covered with scales . Some of the species ascend rivers . The genus Clupea , as now restricted by Cuvier , may be thus characterised : -Maxillaries arched in front ; opening of the mouth moderate ; upper jaw entire ; body compressed and ...
... covered with scales . Some of the species ascend rivers . The genus Clupea , as now restricted by Cuvier , may be thus characterised : -Maxillaries arched in front ; opening of the mouth moderate ; upper jaw entire ; body compressed and ...
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... covered by indurated or slaty clay , and not by sandstone . The strata are 86 in number . In Madely colliery a shaft is sunk 729 feet through all the beds . The first coal - seam , which occurs at the depth of 102 feet , is very ...
... covered by indurated or slaty clay , and not by sandstone . The strata are 86 in number . In Madely colliery a shaft is sunk 729 feet through all the beds . The first coal - seam , which occurs at the depth of 102 feet , is very ...
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... covered with small scales , and invested with a mucous secretion ; ventral fins situated far back , dorsal fin placed above them ; gill- openings small ; branchiostegous rays three in number . C. barbatula , the Loach , Loche , or ...
... covered with small scales , and invested with a mucous secretion ; ventral fins situated far back , dorsal fin placed above them ; gill- openings small ; branchiostegous rays three in number . C. barbatula , the Loach , Loche , or ...
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... covered with a white powder , and exhibits transverse incisions on the abdomen . The male is of a deep red colour , and has white wings . Coccus Cacti , magnified . a , the male ; b , the female . This insect , which when properly ...
... covered with a white powder , and exhibits transverse incisions on the abdomen . The male is of a deep red colour , and has white wings . Coccus Cacti , magnified . a , the male ; b , the female . This insect , which when properly ...
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... covered with a thick whitish- green glandular fur : the leaves are large , rounded , heart - shaped , and deeply divided into from 5 to 7 sharp - pointed lobes . The plant is now cultivated in the island of Mauritius . Cocculus palmatus ...
... covered with a thick whitish- green glandular fur : the leaves are large , rounded , heart - shaped , and deeply divided into from 5 to 7 sharp - pointed lobes . The plant is now cultivated in the island of Mauritius . Cocculus palmatus ...
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Page 469 - ... gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.
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Page 85 - ... to fell them in such a manner, that, in their descent, they might bring down several others ; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.