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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... tion , and there too , on the very frontier , he bounds , and jumps , from rock to rock , ever scolding , laughing , whistling , and toiling , to garner in his harvest . Two of them , husband and wife , took up their abode in an old saw ...
... tion , and there too , on the very frontier , he bounds , and jumps , from rock to rock , ever scolding , laughing , whistling , and toiling , to garner in his harvest . Two of them , husband and wife , took up their abode in an old saw ...
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... tion proved this to be not so , although the relation- ship is very near . The coccus in the winged state has only two wings , the aleyrodes has four . The coccus has only one joint in its feet , and this insect has two . Also , both ...
... tion proved this to be not so , although the relation- ship is very near . The coccus in the winged state has only two wings , the aleyrodes has four . The coccus has only one joint in its feet , and this insect has two . Also , both ...
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... tion . The land- scape which the frost traces during the night with delicate crystals on the window - pane is a mystery to the child and a marvel to the man . Here is exhibited beauty in combination with power . Great agents have been ...
... tion . The land- scape which the frost traces during the night with delicate crystals on the window - pane is a mystery to the child and a marvel to the man . Here is exhibited beauty in combination with power . Great agents have been ...
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... tion has been thus graphically described : - " Here is a block of clear ice , such as any fishmonger can supply . Rows of air - bubbles can be seen running parallel to each other throughout the mass , and in some irregular places there ...
... tion has been thus graphically described : - " Here is a block of clear ice , such as any fishmonger can supply . Rows of air - bubbles can be seen running parallel to each other throughout the mass , and in some irregular places there ...
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... tion I can give you . I know very well once every subject was dated , but where these dates are now I cannot tell . " E. DALYELL . " Feb. 4th , 1860. " I think that these two very interesting letters , bearing on the early history of ...
... tion I can give you . I know very well once every subject was dated , but where these dates are now I cannot tell . " E. DALYELL . " Feb. 4th , 1860. " I think that these two very interesting letters , bearing on the early history of ...
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