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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... collected ( at random from various places ) , last July , about forty nearly adult larvæ of this insect . Every one of these became a pupa , and emerged in due time . I observe that in rearing butterfly larvæ , if from insufficient or ...
... collected ( at random from various places ) , last July , about forty nearly adult larvæ of this insect . Every one of these became a pupa , and emerged in due time . I observe that in rearing butterfly larvæ , if from insufficient or ...
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... collected 6,000 shells of Foraminifera from an ounce of sand from the shore of the Adriatic . Soldani collected from less than an ounce and a half of rock from the hills of Casciana , in Tuscany , 10,454 fossil shells . Several of these ...
... collected 6,000 shells of Foraminifera from an ounce of sand from the shore of the Adriatic . Soldani collected from less than an ounce and a half of rock from the hills of Casciana , in Tuscany , 10,454 fossil shells . Several of these ...
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... collected by a single man . ' " His dried plants numbered about 130,000 specimens , and his cabinet of shells was the largest and most valuable private collection in existence . After an active life of upwards of threescore years , he ...
... collected by a single man . ' " His dried plants numbered about 130,000 specimens , and his cabinet of shells was the largest and most valuable private collection in existence . After an active life of upwards of threescore years , he ...
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Mistletoe in Devonshire 114 | 14 |
Furzeleaves Trifoliate 115 | 15 |
Moa of New Zealand 282 | 23 |
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