Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 1. köideRobert Hardwicke, 1865 |
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Page 145
... animal eats the plant and appro- priates the nutritious portions to its own sustenance , rejects and gets rid of the useless matters ; and , finally , the animal itself dies , and its whole body is decomposed and returned into the ...
... animal eats the plant and appro- priates the nutritious portions to its own sustenance , rejects and gets rid of the useless matters ; and , finally , the animal itself dies , and its whole body is decomposed and returned into the ...
Page 177
... ANIMALS , OR ZOOPHYTES . BY W. WALLACE FYFE . Insect millions peopling every wave , And nameless tribes , half - plant , half - animal , Rooted and slumbering through a dream of life . The Pelican Island . CATTERED along the sea - shore ...
... ANIMALS , OR ZOOPHYTES . BY W. WALLACE FYFE . Insect millions peopling every wave , And nameless tribes , half - plant , half - animal , Rooted and slumbering through a dream of life . The Pelican Island . CATTERED along the sea - shore ...
Page 260
... animal being sub- merged , with only a part of the trunk visible above the water's surface . Sometimes I place in the tank a half - picked mutton or beef bone , and in a few minutes it becomes completely covered with nassas , and in the ...
... animal being sub- merged , with only a part of the trunk visible above the water's surface . Sometimes I place in the tank a half - picked mutton or beef bone , and in a few minutes it becomes completely covered with nassas , and in the ...
Contents
Mistletoe in Devonshire 114 | 14 |
Furzeleaves Trifoliate 115 | 15 |
Moa of New Zealand 282 | 23 |
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