The Quarterly Review, 213. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1910 |
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Page 132
... Feather . By R. M. Strong . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology , Harvard , pp . 147-184 , 9 plates . Cambridge , Mass . , for the Museum , 1902 . " 7. The Value of Colour in the Struggle for Life . By E. B. Poulton . Article ...
... Feather . By R. M. Strong . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology , Harvard , pp . 147-184 , 9 plates . Cambridge , Mass . , for the Museum , 1902 . " 7. The Value of Colour in the Struggle for Life . By E. B. Poulton . Article ...
Page 133
... Feathers are composed of countless cells with particles of various density within them . The opaque white of the pith of a feather is due to the innumerable air spaces in the pith . If these interstices and air spaces could be done away ...
... Feathers are composed of countless cells with particles of various density within them . The opaque white of the pith of a feather is due to the innumerable air spaces in the pith . If these interstices and air spaces could be done away ...
Page 134
... feather would appear quite as colourless and transparent as is the quill or spool . All feathers would be white provided they possessed no pigment , but most organisms produce some pigment or other , and in birds most of this is formed ...
... feather would appear quite as colourless and transparent as is the quill or spool . All feathers would be white provided they possessed no pigment , but most organisms produce some pigment or other , and in birds most of this is formed ...
Page 135
... feather is being built by the proliferating and cornifying cells , the chromatophores send processes towards them and ... feathers and scales , where then , in loco , metabolism into the pigments proper takes place , by action of the ...
... feather is being built by the proliferating and cornifying cells , the chromatophores send processes towards them and ... feathers and scales , where then , in loco , metabolism into the pigments proper takes place , by action of the ...
Page 136
... feathers such an infiltration with mineral matters does not occur , but the little crystals and granules of the Amphibian box - cells are , in blue feathers , represented by the equally colourless contents of the so - called marrow or ...
... feathers such an infiltration with mineral matters does not occur , but the little crystals and granules of the Amphibian box - cells are , in blue feathers , represented by the equally colourless contents of the so - called marrow or ...
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