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 32
... kind of girth , composed of about fifty fila- ments . This done , it straightens its body , and undergoes its last moulting ; the animal however which emerges from the cast - off skin is no longer a caterpillar , but a chrysalis , which ...
... kind of girth , composed of about fifty fila- ments . This done , it straightens its body , and undergoes its last moulting ; the animal however which emerges from the cast - off skin is no longer a caterpillar , but a chrysalis , which ...
Page 182
... kind to the other , and belong to one of the Ray family , which are as broad in proportion to their length as the dog - fish are narrow . The species in this instance is the common skate ( Batis vulgaris ) , which has a lozenge - shaped ...
... kind to the other , and belong to one of the Ray family , which are as broad in proportion to their length as the dog - fish are narrow . The species in this instance is the common skate ( Batis vulgaris ) , which has a lozenge - shaped ...
Page 156
... kind of spur of variable length . The head is lengthened out in front to a kind of beak , beneath which are the superior antenn¿ ( dif- fering greatly in the two sexes of the same species ) . In the female these antenn¿ are very small ...
... kind of spur of variable length . The head is lengthened out in front to a kind of beak , beneath which are the superior antenn¿ ( dif- fering greatly in the two sexes of the same species ) . In the female these antenn¿ are very small ...
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Mistletoe in Devonshire 114 | 14 |
Furzeleaves Trifoliate 115 | 15 |
Moa of New Zealand 282 | 23 |
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