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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... Side Blown , 227 Fieldfares , 337 Magpie , 21 , 81 Migration of , 277 Rare , 24 Cuckoo - pint , 106 Deformed Primroses and Double Flowers , 137 , 163 Derbyshire , 283 , 310 , 336 Distribution of the Genus Rosa , 41 281 Do Leaves Absorb ...
... Side Blown , 227 Fieldfares , 337 Magpie , 21 , 81 Migration of , 277 Rare , 24 Cuckoo - pint , 106 Deformed Primroses and Double Flowers , 137 , 163 Derbyshire , 283 , 310 , 336 Distribution of the Genus Rosa , 41 281 Do Leaves Absorb ...
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... Side - blown , 227 of Cuttle Fish , 313 of Turtle , 313 Entomological Books for Beginners , 100 Clubs at London , 80 Society , 171 Entomologists , Wasted Energy of , 138 Entomology , 199 , 256 a Collection of Economic , 81 Beetle , a ...
... Side - blown , 227 of Cuttle Fish , 313 of Turtle , 313 Entomological Books for Beginners , 100 Clubs at London , 80 Society , 171 Entomologists , Wasted Energy of , 138 Entomology , 199 , 256 a Collection of Economic , 81 Beetle , a ...
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... side of the trough , to help to produce a downthrow of the rocks lying between . It will readily be understood , therefore , why the course this fault really took should be an object of solicitude for years to local geologists . Indeed ...
... side of the trough , to help to produce a downthrow of the rocks lying between . It will readily be understood , therefore , why the course this fault really took should be an object of solicitude for years to local geologists . Indeed ...
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... side by two parallel white lines , stretching across the map from the south - east to north - west . Those white lines are the equivalents of the straight and the curved faults respectively of the Government map . The fault nearest to ...
... side by two parallel white lines , stretching across the map from the south - east to north - west . Those white lines are the equivalents of the straight and the curved faults respectively of the Government map . The fault nearest to ...
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... side , is trace- able crossing Blue Bell Hill Road 12 ° west of north , and coming out in the cliff in Lower Beacon Street . The other minor dislocations marked on the new map , mostly parallel with this , all have a downthrow to the ...
... side , is trace- able crossing Blue Bell Hill Road 12 ° west of north , and coming out in the cliff in Lower Beacon Street . The other minor dislocations marked on the new map , mostly parallel with this , all have a downthrow to the ...
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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.
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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.
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