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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... latter be sufficiently bleached before mounting . The rapidity and fatality of the action of the poison has frequently been a subject of remark ; the following simple observation sets it in a clear light . A stout fly became entangled ...
... latter be sufficiently bleached before mounting . The rapidity and fatality of the action of the poison has frequently been a subject of remark ; the following simple observation sets it in a clear light . A stout fly became entangled ...
Page 9
... latter organ is really an involucre , and establishing the relationship of this plant with Nyctago and other genera in which the nature of the involucral leaves cannot be mis- taken . Such specimens have been observed before , and been ...
... latter organ is really an involucre , and establishing the relationship of this plant with Nyctago and other genera in which the nature of the involucral leaves cannot be mis- taken . Such specimens have been observed before , and been ...
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... latter reaching nearly to the bottom , the other two only passing through the cork . A is a wide tube with a funnel - shaped top , B is plain , and c is slightly bent at the top , where there is attached to it ( by means of a piece of ...
... latter reaching nearly to the bottom , the other two only passing through the cork . A is a wide tube with a funnel - shaped top , B is plain , and c is slightly bent at the top , where there is attached to it ( by means of a piece of ...
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... latter have a rim of bright crimson round the mouth , and these have the rays of the disc more clearly marked than the others . The largest of the four , which is least attractive in its colouring , stands about five inches high without ...
... latter have a rim of bright crimson round the mouth , and these have the rays of the disc more clearly marked than the others . The largest of the four , which is least attractive in its colouring , stands about five inches high without ...
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... latter containing about 26 per mil of soluble matters , while the former has only from 12 to 14 per mil , or even less . The fishes pass most of their time buried out of sight in the sand , but as they are known to be always at one ...
... latter containing about 26 per mil of soluble matters , while the former has only from 12 to 14 per mil , or even less . The fishes pass most of their time buried out of sight in the sand , but as they are known to be always at one ...
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