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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Page 29
... piece of slate , so that the animal could not emerge , but it soon got over this difficulty by adding to its tube a new piece of about an inch long , turned abruptly at right angles to the original tube , and then , of course , the gill ...
... piece of slate , so that the animal could not emerge , but it soon got over this difficulty by adding to its tube a new piece of about an inch long , turned abruptly at right angles to the original tube , and then , of course , the gill ...
Page 32
... piece of tube carrying a mirror , the light being by its means reflected on to , and through the prism , and so through the object- glass , the right tube conveying the magnified image of the object to the eye of the observers . The ...
... piece of tube carrying a mirror , the light being by its means reflected on to , and through the prism , and so through the object- glass , the right tube conveying the magnified image of the object to the eye of the observers . The ...
Page 44
... piece of wood tion for some years , I venture to send you one that may appear to have the advantage of not being easily disarranged , and yet easily applied and re- moved , giving at the same time more equable pressure ( a matter of ...
... piece of wood tion for some years , I venture to send you one that may appear to have the advantage of not being easily disarranged , and yet easily applied and re- moved , giving at the same time more equable pressure ( a matter of ...
Page 45
... piece of rock - work , but the moment the savage green - eyed monster of a husband saw her , he resumed the chase ; perhaps it was caused by incompatibility of temper . However , I found her one morning floating on the top of the ...
... piece of rock - work , but the moment the savage green - eyed monster of a husband saw her , he resumed the chase ; perhaps it was caused by incompatibility of temper . However , I found her one morning floating on the top of the ...
Page 52
... piece of thin glass with Canada balsam . Strongly coloured solutions may be ex- amined in test - tubes , or may be kept sealed up in small bottles made out of glass tubes , the light then examined being that which passes through the ...
... piece of thin glass with Canada balsam . Strongly coloured solutions may be ex- amined in test - tubes , or may be kept sealed up in small bottles made out of glass tubes , the light then examined being that which passes through the ...
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