Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 2. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1867 |
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... common flax plant ( Linum usitatissimum ) . This possesses a variable market value according to Fig . 14. a . Chinese nettle ; b . Neilgherry nettle ; c . Bedolee . microscope it exhibits considerably greater asperi- ties than the Rhea ...
... common flax plant ( Linum usitatissimum ) . This possesses a variable market value according to Fig . 14. a . Chinese nettle ; b . Neilgherry nettle ; c . Bedolee . microscope it exhibits considerably greater asperi- ties than the Rhea ...
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... common fresh water Perch is quite as interesting , and less commonly used . Those of the Roach and Dace are by no means to be despised . Scales are generally mounted dry , being first cleaned ; but when it is intended to view them with ...
... common fresh water Perch is quite as interesting , and less commonly used . Those of the Roach and Dace are by no means to be despised . Scales are generally mounted dry , being first cleaned ; but when it is intended to view them with ...
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... common flea . Once , in a hot part , where fleas are rather too common , I found a blanket abounding with their eggs and grubs . When I was a boy we took some trouble to see the habits , & c . , of fleas . I got a glass tube , about two ...
... common flea . Once , in a hot part , where fleas are rather too common , I found a blanket abounding with their eggs and grubs . When I was a boy we took some trouble to see the habits , & c . , of fleas . I got a glass tube , about two ...
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... common ( especially at this season of the year ) ? And why do they all flock , and then fly off if it is not com- mon - J . 1. , jun . Dec. 12 , 1865 . BEES AND WASPs . - In several places in Belgium the same has been observed as in ...
... common ( especially at this season of the year ) ? And why do they all flock , and then fly off if it is not com- mon - J . 1. , jun . Dec. 12 , 1865 . BEES AND WASPs . - In several places in Belgium the same has been observed as in ...
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... common . W. B. MAXFIELD would exchange thin , unmounted sections of turtle bone for human or ostrich bone , or any kind of sponge spicules.- Address , Stone , Staffordshire . APHIDES . - Mounted specimens of Aphides will be sent to such ...
... common . W. B. MAXFIELD would exchange thin , unmounted sections of turtle bone for human or ostrich bone , or any kind of sponge spicules.- Address , Stone , Staffordshire . APHIDES . - Mounted specimens of Aphides will be sent to such ...
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