Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 2. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1867 |
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... hand freely , and leaving it by attaching a thread to its margin , and so dropping down five or six inches , pausing thus for a moment , and then , with almost the speed of a winged insect , mounting high in the air , where their ...
... hand freely , and leaving it by attaching a thread to its margin , and so dropping down five or six inches , pausing thus for a moment , and then , with almost the speed of a winged insect , mounting high in the air , where their ...
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... hands of the gentleman in whose keeping it , I believe , still remains . Some time ago a friend of mine told me that its then possessor was a little oppressed with the responsibility of properly keeping alive such an historically ...
... hands of the gentleman in whose keeping it , I believe , still remains . Some time ago a friend of mine told me that its then possessor was a little oppressed with the responsibility of properly keeping alive such an historically ...
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... hands over our eyes if looking at any object in the sunshine . Many strange appendages to the plumage of birds , that we suppose merely decorative , I am disposed to think have some direct use that we should find out if opportunity were ...
... hands over our eyes if looking at any object in the sunshine . Many strange appendages to the plumage of birds , that we suppose merely decorative , I am disposed to think have some direct use that we should find out if opportunity were ...
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... hands " ( Alcyonium digitatum ) , so disgusting an object until we have seen the beau- tiful polypes which emanate like flowers from the warts spread over its surface . Our tunicated Ascidians exhibit no such polypes . It is said that ...
... hands " ( Alcyonium digitatum ) , so disgusting an object until we have seen the beau- tiful polypes which emanate like flowers from the warts spread over its surface . Our tunicated Ascidians exhibit no such polypes . It is said that ...
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... hand . In lieu of a plate of glass for the necessary reflection , a round disc of ordinary thin microscopic glass is used , the same being fixed by means of shellac into a small pin , the pin and disc gliding centrally into position ...
... hand . In lieu of a plate of glass for the necessary reflection , a round disc of ordinary thin microscopic glass is used , the same being fixed by means of shellac into a small pin , the pin and disc gliding centrally into position ...
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