The Midland Naturalist: The Journal of the "Midland Union of Natural History Sciences" with which is Incorporated the Entire Transaction of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, Volumes 1-2Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse Hardwicke and Bogue, 1878 - Natural history |
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... month to month a very complete record of the weather of the Midlands . To Mr. Charles E. Scarse , of the Birmingham Library , both we and our readers readers are greatly indebted , for com- piling the excellent Index we are enabled to ...
... month to month a very complete record of the weather of the Midlands . To Mr. Charles E. Scarse , of the Birmingham Library , both we and our readers readers are greatly indebted , for com- piling the excellent Index we are enabled to ...
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... monthly magazine , to be called the MIDLAND NATURALIST , be issued by the Union , and that Mr. E. W. Badger , of Birmingham , and Mr. W. J. Harrison , F.G.S. , of Leicester , be appointed Editors . 5. That the Editors of the Magazine be ...
... monthly magazine , to be called the MIDLAND NATURALIST , be issued by the Union , and that Mr. E. W. Badger , of Birmingham , and Mr. W. J. Harrison , F.G.S. , of Leicester , be appointed Editors . 5. That the Editors of the Magazine be ...
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... monthly publication of the MIDLAND NATURALIST . The present issue will afford a general notion of the character of ... month well written original articles ; short items of science news ; meteorological and other observa- tions ; brief ...
... monthly publication of the MIDLAND NATURALIST . The present issue will afford a general notion of the character of ... month well written original articles ; short items of science news ; meteorological and other observa- tions ; brief ...
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... months the whole surface soil was covered over ( and had been for several weeks previously ) with the vivid green of the young ferns . At this time a second case was prepared , not for spore sowing , but for transplanting , in patches ...
... months the whole surface soil was covered over ( and had been for several weeks previously ) with the vivid green of the young ferns . At this time a second case was prepared , not for spore sowing , but for transplanting , in patches ...
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... months ago it was proposed to attempt the construction of an accurate topographical model of Leicestershire , commencing with the Charnwood Forest district , and gradually adding square by square of the region around until the whole ...
... months ago it was proposed to attempt the construction of an accurate topographical model of Leicestershire , commencing with the Charnwood Forest district , and gradually adding square by square of the region around until the whole ...
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Page 59 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone.
Page 47 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 177 - Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth In her fair page; see, every season brings New change, to her, of everlasting youth; Still the green soil, with joyous living things, Swarms, the wide air is full of joyous wings, And myriads, still, are happy in the sleep Of ocean's azure gulfs, and where he flings The restless surge.
Page 222 - TAXIDERMY, PRACTICAL. A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting-up Natural History Specimens of all kinds.
Page 59 - Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow.
Page 236 - ... hypothetical conception, accepted as a reality from its adequacy in the explanation of phenomena, it is a tangible and visible reality, which the chemist may analyse in his laboratory, the biologist scrutinize beneath his microscope and his dissecting needle. The chemical composition of protoplasm ¡з very complex, ar.d has not been exactly determined.
Page 47 - It affords, in fact," Thomson wrote conclusive proof that the conditions of the bottom of the sea to all depths are not only such as to admit of the existence of animal life, but are such as to allow of the unlimited extension of the distribution of animals high in the zoological series, and closely in relation with the characteristic faunae of shallower zones.42 After leaving the West Indies, however, he had to revise some of his conclusions.
Page 59 - Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Page 236 - ... beneath his microscope and his dissecting needle. The chemical composition of protoplasm is very complex, and has not been exactly determined. It may, however, be stated that protoplasm is essentially a combination of albuminoid bodies, and that its principal elements are, therefore, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. In its typical state it presents the condition of a semi-fluid substance— a tenacious, glairy liquid, with a consistence somewhat like that of the white of an unboiled egg.
Page 205 - A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.