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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... 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 kneading kind of movement . Where a more ...
... 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 kneading kind of movement . Where a more ...
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... hand , few of us can afford , like Charles Waterton , to construct a natural paradise of our own , and therefore we must be content with imi- tating Nature according to our means . I have kept the commoner kinds of finches in a large ...
... hand , few of us can afford , like Charles Waterton , to construct a natural paradise of our own , and therefore we must be content with imi- tating Nature according to our means . I have kept the commoner kinds of finches in a large ...
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... hand by any of the more respectable writers on Ichthyology- Yarrell not even alluding to it in the first edition of his " British Fishes , " although an instance is quoted in a subsequent edition of that work , to which the writer has ...
... hand by any of the more respectable writers on Ichthyology- Yarrell not even alluding to it in the first edition of his " British Fishes , " although an instance is quoted in a subsequent edition of that work , to which the writer has ...
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... hand , when the fleas made no trouble about coming down and having a feast . In this way I kept them for some time , and they laid their eggs and hatched their larvæ . But the life of these I did not trace any further . Talking about ...
... hand , when the fleas made no trouble about coming down and having a feast . In this way I kept them for some time , and they laid their eggs and hatched their larvæ . But the life of these I did not trace any further . Talking about ...
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... hand with the fingers in motion was beautifully defined . I employed day- light and no condenser , the power not more than eight diameters . I have never seen this mentioned in any work on microscopy , and hope some of your readers may ...
... hand with the fingers in motion was beautifully defined . I employed day- light and no condenser , the power not more than eight diameters . I have never seen this mentioned in any work on microscopy , and hope some of your readers may ...
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