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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... mention that our English ones are much lighter in colour than those found in Africa . They attach their eggs to the fibres of the wool or flannel . Whether they always lay the same number I do not know , but I have one I preserved many ...
... mention that our English ones are much lighter in colour than those found in Africa . They attach their eggs to the fibres of the wool or flannel . Whether they always lay the same number I do not know , but I have one I preserved many ...
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... mentioned bed of coal , varying in thickness at different collieries in this district . It will be found at Dudley and the Cramlingtons to run about two inches in thickness , although I have fell in with pieces at Newsham Colliery more ...
... mentioned bed of coal , varying in thickness at different collieries in this district . It will be found at Dudley and the Cramlingtons to run about two inches in thickness , although I have fell in with pieces at Newsham Colliery more ...
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... mentioned in any work on microscopy , and hope some of your readers may succeed in obtaining a sight of this in- teresting object . - S . , Oporto . MOUNTING CRYSTALS . - I have been engaged lately with crystalization in connection with ...
... mentioned in any work on microscopy , and hope some of your readers may succeed in obtaining a sight of this in- teresting object . - S . , Oporto . MOUNTING CRYSTALS . - I have been engaged lately with crystalization in connection with ...
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... mention that the first aquatic subject I found was dated in the year 1790 ; and , as a curiosity , I desired it to be engraved upon one of the copper plates . It is the River- worm , which forms into a little fly . 66 As you have the ...
... mention that the first aquatic subject I found was dated in the year 1790 ; and , as a curiosity , I desired it to be engraved upon one of the copper plates . It is the River- worm , which forms into a little fly . 66 As you have the ...
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... mentioned tube ; the hole is fitted with a small diaphragm plate , perforated with four openings of different sizes . The action of the new apparatus consists in transmitting , by means of the plate of glass , the light ( received ...
... mentioned tube ; the hole is fitted with a small diaphragm plate , perforated with four openings of different sizes . The action of the new apparatus consists in transmitting , by means of the plate of glass , the light ( received ...
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