The Popular Science Monthly, 45. köideD. Appleton, 1894 |
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... Prof. Westwood once named a minute beetle , which had done much mischief to the cover of a book , Hypothene mus erudites . Specimens of books damaged by insects are exhibited in the South Kensington Museum , London . Mr. Zaehnsdorf , a ...
... Prof. Westwood once named a minute beetle , which had done much mischief to the cover of a book , Hypothene mus erudites . Specimens of books damaged by insects are exhibited in the South Kensington Museum , London . Mr. Zaehnsdorf , a ...
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... Prof. Geikie adopts it as prima facie not extravagant — we have an amount of ice erosion so enormous as to put completely out of court all the allegations of those who attempt to minimize it as a mere smoothing off of sharp angles and ...
... Prof. Geikie adopts it as prima facie not extravagant — we have an amount of ice erosion so enormous as to put completely out of court all the allegations of those who attempt to minimize it as a mere smoothing off of sharp angles and ...
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... Prof. G. Brown Goode , in his article on American Menhaden in Part V of the Report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1887. He says : " Millions of pounds of fish not fit for human food are allowed every year to ...
... Prof. G. Brown Goode , in his article on American Menhaden in Part V of the Report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1887. He says : " Millions of pounds of fish not fit for human food are allowed every year to ...
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... Prof. Goode made the estimate above quoted over eight hundred thousand dollars ' worth of crude and dried guano was produced , and 2,426,589 gallons of oil were obtained . Bearing these figures in mind , and remembering that Prof. Baird ...
... Prof. Goode made the estimate above quoted over eight hundred thousand dollars ' worth of crude and dried guano was produced , and 2,426,589 gallons of oil were obtained . Bearing these figures in mind , and remembering that Prof. Baird ...
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... Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley , Right Hon . James Caird , and the Right Hon . George Shaw Lefevre , after three years of exhaustive inquiry reported : " We advise that all acts of Parlia- ment which profess to regulate or restrict the modes ...
... Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley , Right Hon . James Caird , and the Right Hon . George Shaw Lefevre , after three years of exhaustive inquiry reported : " We advise that all acts of Parlia- ment which profess to regulate or restrict the modes ...
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Popular passages
Page 636 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 407 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Page 361 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
Page 638 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife.
Page 361 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Page 633 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 636 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 576 - WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about.
Page 361 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Page 819 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.