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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Page 7
... contain the poison , and the poison duct may be traced to the extremity of the claw , if the latter be sufficiently bleached before mounting . The rapidity and fatality of the action of the poison has frequently been a subject of remark ...
... contain the poison , and the poison duct may be traced to the extremity of the claw , if the latter be sufficiently bleached before mounting . The rapidity and fatality of the action of the poison has frequently been a subject of remark ...
Page 9
... containing half - developed stamens and pistil . The flowers of the double - blossomed Cherry , which are so great an ornament in our gardens in May , always show us some interesting examples of ab- normal development . The duplication ...
... containing half - developed stamens and pistil . The flowers of the double - blossomed Cherry , which are so great an ornament in our gardens in May , always show us some interesting examples of ab- normal development . The duplication ...
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... contain even a respectable series . There are . no difficulties to be surmounted either in procuring , cleaning , or mounting them ; and perhaps this is one reason why they have not had the attention they deserve . * * Consult ...
... contain even a respectable series . There are . no difficulties to be surmounted either in procuring , cleaning , or mounting them ; and perhaps this is one reason why they have not had the attention they deserve . * * Consult ...
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... contain beautiful specimens of silici- fied arborescent sponge , coloured with oxyde of iron . Some of the hollow nodular flints are lined with ex- quisitely coloured mammillated calcedony . The chalk itself is not very fossiliferous ...
... contain beautiful specimens of silici- fied arborescent sponge , coloured with oxyde of iron . Some of the hollow nodular flints are lined with ex- quisitely coloured mammillated calcedony . The chalk itself is not very fossiliferous ...
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... containing a small crimson wart . The disc is cup - shaped . The tentacles are long and flexuous , but much more so in one specimen than in the other three . One I found with the tentacles quite hidden , but they were more concealed by ...
... containing a small crimson wart . The disc is cup - shaped . The tentacles are long and flexuous , but much more so in one specimen than in the other three . One I found with the tentacles quite hidden , but they were more concealed by ...
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