The Magazine of Natural History, 3. köideJohn Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1839 |
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Page 250 - South Sea whalers, passed several seasons amongst sperm whales. He says : — •" I can truly say when I find myself in opposition to these old and received notions, that out of the thousands of sperm whales which I have seen during my wanderings in the South and North Pacific Oceans, I have never observed one of them to eject a column of water from the nostril. I have seen them at a distance, and I have been within a few yards of several hundreds of them, and I never saw water pass from the spout-hole....
Page 415 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 415 - THE ASSOCIATION contemplates no interference with the ground occupied by other institutions. Its objects are : — To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign...
Page 107 - ... of similar classes of crystals, can only be referred to the will and pleasure of the First Great Cause, whose works, even the most minute and evanescent, and in regions the most remote from human observation, are altogether admirable.
Page 219 - in consideration of his being a great original discoverer in English geology, and especially for his being the first in this country to discover and to teach the identification of strata, and to determine their succession by means of their imbedded fossils.
Page 146 - ... the other extremity. After a pause of a few moments the first after the break in the line attempted to recover the communication ; this was a work of time and difficulty, but the moment it was accomplished by his touching the one before him, this one communicated the fact to the next in advance, and so on till the information reached the leader, when the whole line was again put in motion. On counting the number of caterpillars I found it te be 154, and the length of the line 27 feet.
Page 219 - If, in the pride of our present strength, we were disposed to forget our origin, our very speech would bewray us ; for we use the language which he taught us in the infancy of our science. If we, by our united efforts, are...
Page 405 - ... ignition, or hamstring the colossal but harmless animal, by whose side I appeared the veriest pigmy in the creation — alas, I had lent it to the Hottentots to cut off the head of the Hartebeest. Vainly did I wait for the tardy and rebellious...
Page 519 - Having only two boys with me in the boat at the time, I desired them to cut the fish away, which they refused to do ; I then took the bight of the net from them, and with the joint endeavours of themselves and my boat's crew, we succeeded in hauling up the net, and to our astonishment, after great exertions, we raised the saw of the fish about eight feet above the surface of the sea. It was a fortunate circumstance that the fish came up with the belly towards the boat, or it would have cut the boat...
Page 230 - Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 109. 4-2. On a new species of Lamia from the vicinity of the Swan River, New Holland.— Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, III. p. 230. 43. On the species of Cincindela and Elaphrus mentioned in Olivier — Mag.