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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... wings . These receive names from the Trojan nobles ; and the most splendid among them bear the name of Priam . The other body , ornamented with a variety of gay colours , are distinguished by the names of the Grecian heroes ; and , as ...
... wings . These receive names from the Trojan nobles ; and the most splendid among them bear the name of Priam . The other body , ornamented with a variety of gay colours , are distinguished by the names of the Grecian heroes ; and , as ...
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... wings of insects . The different gnats supply some most beautiful specimens , not only from the wings , but also from the proboscis , & c .; whilst from still more minute insects , as the podura , scales are taken which were at one time ...
... wings of insects . The different gnats supply some most beautiful specimens , not only from the wings , but also from the proboscis , & c .; whilst from still more minute insects , as the podura , scales are taken which were at one time ...
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... WINGS . - Mr . Side- bottom , in a paper read at the Literary and Philo- sophical Society , Manchester , January 16th , said that the great and rapid increase of size in the wings of the Lepidoptera , soon after the insect emerges from ...
... WINGS . - Mr . Side- bottom , in a paper read at the Literary and Philo- sophical Society , Manchester , January 16th , said that the great and rapid increase of size in the wings of the Lepidoptera , soon after the insect emerges from ...
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Mistletoe in Devonshire 114 | 14 |
Furzeleaves Trifoliate 115 | 15 |
Moa of New Zealand 282 | 23 |
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