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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... figures , and metaphors . A prominent performer in all their legends is a terrible old woman , half witch , half ogress , of very doubtful reputation , armed with teeth like a wolf , and the claws of a grizzly - bear ; her entire time ...
... figures , and metaphors . A prominent performer in all their legends is a terrible old woman , half witch , half ogress , of very doubtful reputation , armed with teeth like a wolf , and the claws of a grizzly - bear ; her entire time ...
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... figure given in this paper has been taken ( fig . 2 ) , but sometimes five only have been found . The claws frequently vary somewhat in the curvature of their ends , and are more finely pointed in some instances than in others . I have ...
... figure given in this paper has been taken ( fig . 2 ) , but sometimes five only have been found . The claws frequently vary somewhat in the curvature of their ends , and are more finely pointed in some instances than in others . I have ...
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... Figure 7 is a drawing of a not unfrequent form of Plantain ( Plantago lanceolata ) , which has become proliferous , producing small flower - heads on foot- stalks and several leaves from the base of the flower . Gathered at Beaumaris ...
... Figure 7 is a drawing of a not unfrequent form of Plantain ( Plantago lanceolata ) , which has become proliferous , producing small flower - heads on foot- stalks and several leaves from the base of the flower . Gathered at Beaumaris ...
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... figures of the microscopic appearances of different qualities and classes of wool , even of those ordinarily met with in commerce . It must be possible to characterize mi- croscopic features whereby Saxony can be distin- guished from ...
... figures of the microscopic appearances of different qualities and classes of wool , even of those ordinarily met with in commerce . It must be possible to characterize mi- croscopic features whereby Saxony can be distin- guished from ...
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... figure has already been given ( vol . i . p . 276 ) , yields a similar but more woolly fibre . ( Fig . 14 , b ... figures ( fig . 11 , 6 , and fig . 14 , 6 ) will prove that such an admixture could readily be detected . The fibre of the ...
... figure has already been given ( vol . i . p . 276 ) , yields a similar but more woolly fibre . ( Fig . 14 , b ... figures ( fig . 11 , 6 , and fig . 14 , 6 ) will prove that such an admixture could readily be detected . The fibre of the ...
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