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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... shell ; however , as he remarked , there it was , though unfortunately , it had been laid by a Kestrel . But in the month of October , 1863 , two young ones were brought to me half - fledged ; one died in a little more than a week , but ...
... shell ; however , as he remarked , there it was , though unfortunately , it had been laid by a Kestrel . But in the month of October , 1863 , two young ones were brought to me half - fledged ; one died in a little more than a week , but ...
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... shells , probably teredines . It appears that these animals must have begun their operations in a young state on the wood when it had been reduced to its present figure and magnitude ; for the moulds which remain in their holes appear ...
... shells , probably teredines . It appears that these animals must have begun their operations in a young state on the wood when it had been reduced to its present figure and magnitude ; for the moulds which remain in their holes appear ...
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... shell - fish . - E . T. Scott . GUANO AND GUANO - BIRDS . Much has been spoken about the Guano Islands during the last war between Spain and Peru . The three Chincha Islands contain more than 12,000,000 tons of it ; the contents of the ...
... shell - fish . - E . T. Scott . GUANO AND GUANO - BIRDS . Much has been spoken about the Guano Islands during the last war between Spain and Peru . The three Chincha Islands contain more than 12,000,000 tons of it ; the contents of the ...
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... shell , which they strung to- gether to form necklaces - a neck ornament of this kind , with a bronze dagger and clay beads , having been discovered not long since , in a tumulus at Winterbourne Stoke , near Salisbury . In company with ...
... shell , which they strung to- gether to form necklaces - a neck ornament of this kind , with a bronze dagger and clay beads , having been discovered not long since , in a tumulus at Winterbourne Stoke , near Salisbury . In company with ...
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... shells and remains of insects , fishes , and even small reptiles , have been found embedded with coal , but there are no appear- ances of aqueous deposits of this kind in the sub- stance of the mineral . Evidence of the mode of ac ...
... shells and remains of insects , fishes , and even small reptiles , have been found embedded with coal , but there are no appear- ances of aqueous deposits of this kind in the sub- stance of the mineral . Evidence of the mode of ac ...
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