My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 195
... beetles , and butterflies in Borneo , the Moluccas , and the Aru Islands . It must be remembered that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme . I knew the wild rose , bramble , haw- thorn , buttercup , poppy , daisy , and ...
... beetles , and butterflies in Borneo , the Moluccas , and the Aru Islands . It must be remembered that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme . I knew the wild rose , bramble , haw- thorn , buttercup , poppy , daisy , and ...
Page 237
... beetles , their many strange forms and often beautiful markings or colouring , and was even more surprised when I found that almost all I saw had been collected around Leicester , and that there were still many more to be discovered ...
... beetles , their many strange forms and often beautiful markings or colouring , and was even more surprised when I found that almost all I saw had been collected around Leicester , and that there were still many more to be discovered ...
Page 242
... beetles . While at Leicester I had been altogether out of the business world , and do not remember even looking at a newspaper , or I might have heard something of the great railway mania which that year reached its culmination . I now ...
... beetles . While at Leicester I had been altogether out of the business world , and do not remember even looking at a newspaper , or I might have heard something of the great railway mania which that year reached its culmination . I now ...
Page 251
... beetles there , and also to show my brother the waterfalls and other beauties of the upper valley . Starting after an early breakfast we walked to Pont - nedd- fychan , and then turned up the western branch to the Rocking Stone , a ...
... beetles there , and also to show my brother the waterfalls and other beauties of the upper valley . Starting after an early breakfast we walked to Pont - nedd- fychan , and then turned up the western branch to the Rocking Stone , a ...
Page 252
... beetles , which were , however , very scarce , and we then walked along the ridge to the second and higher triangular summit , peeped with nervous dread on my part over the almost perpendicular precipice towards Brecon , noted the exact ...
... beetles , which were , however , very scarce , and we then walked along the ridge to the second and higher triangular summit , peeped with nervous dread on my part over the almost perpendicular precipice towards Brecon , noted the exact ...
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