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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... feet being used much the same as hands , to press the cargo back , and tightly pack it ; when emptying them , the fore feet are again called into requisition ; placed behind the corpulent bags , the contents are pressed out by a ...
... feet being used much the same as hands , to press the cargo back , and tightly pack it ; when emptying them , the fore feet are again called into requisition ; placed behind the corpulent bags , the contents are pressed out by a ...
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... feet were , I believe , always stretched out behind . His appetite developed itself at a very early age . Before I had had him a fortnight , and while his body was still partially covered with down , he one night took six full - grown ...
... feet were , I believe , always stretched out behind . His appetite developed itself at a very early age . Before I had had him a fortnight , and while his body was still partially covered with down , he one night took six full - grown ...
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... feet high , so completely stuffed with acorns , that it seemed im- possible to find a place for an additional one . Trees thus treated have a very singular appearance . Some years ago ( either 1854 or 1855 ) I saw in the 4the- n¿um a ...
... feet high , so completely stuffed with acorns , that it seemed im- possible to find a place for an additional one . Trees thus treated have a very singular appearance . Some years ago ( either 1854 or 1855 ) I saw in the 4the- n¿um a ...
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... feet , rubbed its feet , and dressed itself ; this was the action of a minute . It then walked about again , apparently all right . Presently it stood without motion , and after a few seconds , when touched , it was found to be scarcely ...
... feet , rubbed its feet , and dressed itself ; this was the action of a minute . It then walked about again , apparently all right . Presently it stood without motion , and after a few seconds , when touched , it was found to be scarcely ...
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... feet across . In another case , however , of Horse - radish ( Fig . 5 ) , the radical leaves of nearly all the plants in my garden became last year so deeply cut as to be almost pinnate . This was no doubt caused by the dryness of the ...
... feet across . In another case , however , of Horse - radish ( Fig . 5 ) , the radical leaves of nearly all the plants in my garden became last year so deeply cut as to be almost pinnate . This was no doubt caused by the dryness of the ...
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