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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... taken more if he could have got them : he swallowed them all whole . He does not , how- ever , as some naturalists say , invariably bolt them head first ; I have seen him take them tail foremost . When any live prey is given him , he ...
... taken more if he could have got them : he swallowed them all whole . He does not , how- ever , as some naturalists say , invariably bolt them head first ; I have seen him take them tail foremost . When any live prey is given him , he ...
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... taken ( fig . 2 ) , but sometimes five only have been found . The claws frequently vary somewhat in the curvature of their ends , and are more finely pointed in some instances than in others . I have read somewhere that the action of ...
... taken ( fig . 2 ) , but sometimes five only have been found . The claws frequently vary somewhat in the curvature of their ends , and are more finely pointed in some instances than in others . I have read somewhere that the action of ...
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... taken . Such specimens have been observed before , and been made use of in proving the affinities of Mirabilis . I have several times noticed a curious variety of the Common Columbine ( Aquilegia vulgaris ) , which I think comes up the ...
... taken . Such specimens have been observed before , and been made use of in proving the affinities of Mirabilis . I have several times noticed a curious variety of the Common Columbine ( Aquilegia vulgaris ) , which I think comes up the ...
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... taken to keep the bottle clean , and free from particles of sand and grit , or these will get into the pipe and stop the jet . Fig . 22. The Dinornis , restored . appearance . Writing of the post - pliocene period , the author remarks ...
... taken to keep the bottle clean , and free from particles of sand and grit , or these will get into the pipe and stop the jet . Fig . 22. The Dinornis , restored . appearance . Writing of the post - pliocene period , the author remarks ...
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... taken many years , or a large area , to ac- cumulate , but yet in some instances there is proof that it must have been accumulated rapidly . That it is generally associated with certain shales , with ronstones , either in nodules or ...
... taken many years , or a large area , to ac- cumulate , but yet in some instances there is proof that it must have been accumulated rapidly . That it is generally associated with certain shales , with ronstones , either in nodules or ...
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