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 413 - 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 217 - 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 65 - These were enlarged and sequestra, from half an inch to an inch and a half in length, were removed.
Page 105 - ... 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 401 - I had shot a hartebeeste for the savages, when an object, which had repeatedly attracted my eye, but which I had as often persuaded myself was nothing more than the branchless stump of some withered tree, suddenly shifted its position, and the next moment I distinctly perceived that singular form of which the apparition had ofttimes visited my slumbers, but upon whose reality I now gazed for the first time.
Page 228 - Holland. By THE REV. FW HOPE, FRS, FLS, &c , &c., &c. I SEND for insertion in your ' Magazine of Natural History,' a description of a new species of Lamia from the vicinity of the Swan River, in Australia. My chief object in selecting Lamia is in consequence of the Baron De Jean, in his last Catalogue, omitting that term altogether, while he coins and publishes a new name to include under it insects which have years ago been ably described by the celebrated Fabricius. If entomologists of the present...
Page 402 - I presently found myself, half choked with excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of a!l the mammiferes, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains, has fallen to the lot of few of the votaries of the chase. Sailing before me with incredible velocity, his long swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of his stilt-like legs — his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert with the rocking of his disproportioned frame, he glided gallantly along,...
Page 402 - ... putting spurs to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself half choked with excitement, rattling at the heels of an animal which to me had been a stranger even in its captive...
Page 530 - ... that when the poulp was at the point of death, it drew in, by little and little, its large arms and their membranes, and contracted them upon themselves and all the other arms, so as to obstruct the opening of the shell. At this moment we moved the shell, and the poulp immediately separated itself from it, not voluntarily but accidentally, for it no longer held it in any way. It appeared at first to reanimate itself a little, made some movements in the basin, walking upon its head, then fell...
Page 224 - ... downwards by the stream, and those which were so fortunate as to reach the opposite bank were so wet and fatigued, that the boys stationed there with clubs found no difficulty in securing them alive or in killing them. Their migrations on that occasion did not, as far as...