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 28
... Wood's " Common Objects of the Country " a description of this little gem , and I was so determined to add it to my ... woods and should keep a careful watch among the leaves of the shrubs and underwood , he will often see sundry ...
... Wood's " Common Objects of the Country " a description of this little gem , and I was so determined to add it to my ... woods and should keep a careful watch among the leaves of the shrubs and underwood , he will often see sundry ...
Page 32
... wood , & c . , or , in fact , anything which is tolerably flat . With respect to objects covered with glass , no matter how thin , the illuminators will not work , the reflection from the glass - cover enveloping the object as depicted ...
... wood , & c . , or , in fact , anything which is tolerably flat . With respect to objects covered with glass , no matter how thin , the illuminators will not work , the reflection from the glass - cover enveloping the object as depicted ...
Page 34
... wood , rather than as being a special independent sound , as was generally supposed . — Entomol . Mon. Magazine . STARCH . ' IT must be premised that in writing of Starch we do not use that term in its domestic application , and that ...
... wood , rather than as being a special independent sound , as was generally supposed . — Entomol . Mon. Magazine . STARCH . ' IT must be premised that in writing of Starch we do not use that term in its domestic application , and that ...
Page 40
... wood- cock's nest . Throughout the whole of Scandinavia proper , and the regions conterminous , woodcocks are decidedly scarce ; and whenever I have found them it has been in tall , boggy pine forests , but very rarely even there . I ...
... wood- cock's nest . Throughout the whole of Scandinavia proper , and the regions conterminous , woodcocks are decidedly scarce ; and whenever I have found them it has been in tall , boggy pine forests , but very rarely even there . I ...
Page 41
... wood- peckers ' eating hard nuts , its prehensile wonderfully- barbed tongue being ill - adapted to such diet . More than this , the winters in Oregon are very cold ( at least in this part of it ) , and when the nipping frost sends the ...
... wood- peckers ' eating hard nuts , its prehensile wonderfully- barbed tongue being ill - adapted to such diet . More than this , the winters in Oregon are very cold ( at least in this part of it ) , and when the nipping frost sends the ...
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