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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... visited . The Island of Arran was selected , and the results were equally satisfactory . About twenty members- ladies and gentlemen - formed the party ; the arrangements were left to a small Sub - Committee , and , as the number of ...
... visited . The Island of Arran was selected , and the results were equally satisfactory . About twenty members- ladies and gentlemen - formed the party ; the arrangements were left to a small Sub - Committee , and , as the number of ...
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... visiting the Island , we have reason to believe that two forms , Thyone and Elysia - to be hereafter referred to - have been added by us to the local fauna . The distribution of marine life was extremely local . Within a few yards each ...
... visiting the Island , we have reason to believe that two forms , Thyone and Elysia - to be hereafter referred to - have been added by us to the local fauna . The distribution of marine life was extremely local . Within a few yards each ...
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... , photographed sketches of the main faults , the site of the geodes , and of the conglomerate . visited again and again in order to obtain satisfactory results 18 GEOLOGY OF EAST NOTTINGHAM . SOME NEW FEATURES IN THE GEOLOGY OF ...
... , photographed sketches of the main faults , the site of the geodes , and of the conglomerate . visited again and again in order to obtain satisfactory results 18 GEOLOGY OF EAST NOTTINGHAM . SOME NEW FEATURES IN THE GEOLOGY OF ...
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... visited again and again in order to obtain satisfactory results , chiefly owing to the uncertainty of building operations being begun . Then there was no map published that was on a scale large enough to admit of detailed observations ...
... visited again and again in order to obtain satisfactory results , chiefly owing to the uncertainty of building operations being begun . Then there was no map published that was on a scale large enough to admit of detailed observations ...
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... visited Colorado and the Sierra Nevada , with Professor Asa Gray , with the intention of classifying the Conifers on their route . The task is rendered difficult by every tree having as many local or scientific names as branches ; but ...
... visited Colorado and the Sierra Nevada , with Professor Asa Gray , with the intention of classifying the Conifers on their route . The task is rendered difficult by every tree having as many local or scientific names as branches ; but ...
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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.