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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... referred to - have been added by us to the local fauna . The distribution of marine life was extremely local . Within a few yards each haul of the dredge usually brought up an entirely different series of animals . Sometimes these ...
... referred to - have been added by us to the local fauna . The distribution of marine life was extremely local . Within a few yards each haul of the dredge usually brought up an entirely different series of animals . Sometimes these ...
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... referred to in the local list . In Polyzoa we took Salicornaria farciminoides , ( alive , ) but in this class the specimens were not very numerous - nor were those of the Tunicata . In the class Mollusca , many specimens were taken ...
... referred to in the local list . In Polyzoa we took Salicornaria farciminoides , ( alive , ) but in this class the specimens were not very numerous - nor were those of the Tunicata . In the class Mollusca , many specimens were taken ...
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... referred . What these conclusions are it is my purpose to show . If we refer to the great English botanists of twenty years ago , we shall find them describing chlorophyll as a " vital secretion " sui generis or independent body . One ...
... referred . What these conclusions are it is my purpose to show . If we refer to the great English botanists of twenty years ago , we shall find them describing chlorophyll as a " vital secretion " sui generis or independent body . One ...
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... referred to , in his otherwise very valuable and instructive article . In speaking of the fertilisation of ferns , certain " spiral filaments " are described as having " swarmed about the pistilli- dium in numbers , " as though they ...
... referred to , in his otherwise very valuable and instructive article . In speaking of the fertilisation of ferns , certain " spiral filaments " are described as having " swarmed about the pistilli- dium in numbers , " as though they ...
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... referred to must be misleading to any reader not thoroughly acquainted with the subject . The " caterpillar stage " in an insect's life is that in which the entire body is almost filled with a capacious stomach ; and the creature ...
... referred to must be misleading to any reader not thoroughly acquainted with the subject . The " caterpillar stage " in an insect's life is that in which the entire body is almost filled with a capacious stomach ; and the creature ...
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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.