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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... experience goes , I have not found them more plenti- ful than usual ; indeed , I think that a wet season is generally more productive of abnormal growth than a dry one , such as we have had . But I am rather inclined to think that 1 do ...
... experience goes , I have not found them more plenti- ful than usual ; indeed , I think that a wet season is generally more productive of abnormal growth than a dry one , such as we have had . But I am rather inclined to think that 1 do ...
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... experience as a fossil seeker , among this shale the slightest trace of the impression of a fish ; while in the thin dark blue layer of stone , which crops out at the crag near Cullercoats , they appear to be common ; the impression ...
... experience as a fossil seeker , among this shale the slightest trace of the impression of a fish ; while in the thin dark blue layer of stone , which crops out at the crag near Cullercoats , they appear to be common ; the impression ...
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... experience in such hunting I could not find a single individual . Their threads were there , stretching from point to point like fairy telegraph wires , that might have been put up by some joint - stock enterprise from the realms of ...
... experience in such hunting I could not find a single individual . Their threads were there , stretching from point to point like fairy telegraph wires , that might have been put up by some joint - stock enterprise from the realms of ...
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... experiences of snow which fall to our lot are sufficient to remind us of the glaciers and avalanches of mountainous districts . " The snow which during the whole year falls upon the moun- tains does not melt , but maintains its solid ...
... experiences of snow which fall to our lot are sufficient to remind us of the glaciers and avalanches of mountainous districts . " The snow which during the whole year falls upon the moun- tains does not melt , but maintains its solid ...
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... experience cannot but be of great value . The Small Tortoiseshell , any of the Fritillary Butterflies , or the Swallow Tail , will furnish a capital wing for mounting in balsam , to be viewed as a transparent object . The latter is also ...
... experience cannot but be of great value . The Small Tortoiseshell , any of the Fritillary Butterflies , or the Swallow Tail , will furnish a capital wing for mounting in balsam , to be viewed as a transparent object . The latter is also ...
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