Half-hours in the Green Lanes: a Book for a Country StrollDavid Bogue, 1879 - 328 pages |
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... inch in size . You may find it not only at the bottom of the water , but on the aquatic plants , up whose stems it frequently crawls . The teeth of this species form an exceedingly beautiful microscopic object , the central portion , a ...
... inch in size . You may find it not only at the bottom of the water , but on the aquatic plants , up whose stems it frequently crawls . The teeth of this species form an exceedingly beautiful microscopic object , the central portion , a ...
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... inches . The heron you may have disturbed on your approach to the tarn , had most probably been making a hearty meal off the swan - mussels , for both it and the common crow are very partial to them . Pennant records that they will ...
... inches . The heron you may have disturbed on your approach to the tarn , had most probably been making a hearty meal off the swan - mussels , for both it and the common crow are very partial to them . Pennant records that they will ...
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... inch objective . The eye is a very beau- Fig . 42 . Daphnia pulex ( female ) . tiful object , having about twenty lenses , whilst the mouth is seen to possess really a complicated apparatus . Where there is duck - weed growing on 48 ...
... inch objective . The eye is a very beau- Fig . 42 . Daphnia pulex ( female ) . tiful object , having about twenty lenses , whilst the mouth is seen to possess really a complicated apparatus . Where there is duck - weed growing on 48 ...
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... inch ! One can hardly wonder at the revolution which has taken place in natural science within the last fifteen years , when we consider how that wonderful instrument , the microscope , has opened our eyes upon the fulness of the animal ...
... inch ! One can hardly wonder at the revolution which has taken place in natural science within the last fifteen years , when we consider how that wonderful instrument , the microscope , has opened our eyes upon the fulness of the animal ...
Page 68
... inches of the clear surface . You observed your float bob under water at an angle of forty - five degrees , with a rapidity that caused you to clutch your rod convulsively , thinking that nothing less than a three - pound tench could ...
... inches of the clear surface . You observed your float bob under water at an angle of forty - five degrees , with a rapidity that caused you to clutch your rod convulsively , thinking that nothing less than a three - pound tench could ...
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