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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... short time after , I had occasion to enter the yard again , and seeing the dead bird still there , I took it up , and perceived that the back of its skull was broken , and all the brains scooped out by his enemy ; thus explaining why he ...
... short time after , I had occasion to enter the yard again , and seeing the dead bird still there , I took it up , and perceived that the back of its skull was broken , and all the brains scooped out by his enemy ; thus explaining why he ...
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... short branch , upon the base of which were placed two or three leaflike greenish bracts , and on the summit a second corolla , rather irregular in shape and containing half - developed stamens and pistil . The flowers of the double ...
... short branch , upon the base of which were placed two or three leaflike greenish bracts , and on the summit a second corolla , rather irregular in shape and containing half - developed stamens and pistil . The flowers of the double ...
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... short tubular masses , swollen at the end , and marked more or less plainly with trans- verse rings . These are flint moulds in cavities left by boring shells , probably teredines . It appears that these animals must have begun their ...
... short tubular masses , swollen at the end , and marked more or less plainly with trans- verse rings . These are flint moulds in cavities left by boring shells , probably teredines . It appears that these animals must have begun their ...
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... short . After Midsummer my bees did not add to their stores . When the fruit became ripe they took the place of the wasps , which are very scarce . I don't remember ever seeing them take to the fruit before as they have done this year ...
... short . After Midsummer my bees did not add to their stores . When the fruit became ripe they took the place of the wasps , which are very scarce . I don't remember ever seeing them take to the fruit before as they have done this year ...
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... short antennæ ; the eyes were divided into two sets , on each side ; the joints of the feet only two ; and from all these signs it could not be a moth . Then I supposed it to be a coccus ; but , further examina- tion proved this to be ...
... short antennæ ; the eyes were divided into two sets , on each side ; the joints of the feet only two ; and from all these signs it could not be a moth . Then I supposed it to be a coccus ; but , further examina- tion proved this to be ...
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