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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... wood , heaped mountains of dead trees ; and as the frail bark shoots by , you are certain to see the " Store- keeper " scampering from log to log , his scolding and whistling lost in the noisy rush of the torrent . Dive into the dark ...
... wood , heaped mountains of dead trees ; and as the frail bark shoots by , you are certain to see the " Store- keeper " scampering from log to log , his scolding and whistling lost in the noisy rush of the torrent . Dive into the dark ...
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... Wood - pecker , which had attracted my notice when in Oaxaca forty years and as I consider wood - peckers exceedingly ago ; clever birds , and capable of performing acts that would seem to denote , or require something more than ...
... Wood - pecker , which had attracted my notice when in Oaxaca forty years and as I consider wood - peckers exceedingly ago ; clever birds , and capable of performing acts that would seem to denote , or require something more than ...
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... wood had become petrified . As the silicified fibres when microscopically examined exhibit rows of circular dots , similar to those seen on the fibres of coniferous wood , there is little doubt that the speci- men is part of a pine ...
... wood had become petrified . As the silicified fibres when microscopically examined exhibit rows of circular dots , similar to those seen on the fibres of coniferous wood , there is little doubt that the speci- men is part of a pine ...
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... wooden frame of the face of the clock , which pro- jected about a foot in front of the stonework . These skeletons were apparently of all ages , most of them , if I remember rightly , full grown , and the feathers adhering to them . The ...
... wooden frame of the face of the clock , which pro- jected about a foot in front of the stonework . These skeletons were apparently of all ages , most of them , if I remember rightly , full grown , and the feathers adhering to them . The ...
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... WOOD ACID.-Mr. Newton , of Cambridge , says in his Hints on making Collections of Eggs " : " Birds may be pre- served entire by pouring a few drops of pyroligneous acid down their throats . " I presume this would only keep them for a ...
... WOOD ACID.-Mr. Newton , of Cambridge , says in his Hints on making Collections of Eggs " : " Birds may be pre- served entire by pouring a few drops of pyroligneous acid down their throats . " I presume this would only keep them for a ...
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