Nature Notes: The Selborne Society's Magazine, Volume 15H. Sotheran., 1904 - Natural history |
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Page 58 - SKETCHES OF BRITISH BIRDS IN THEIR HAUNTS. BY CHARLES DIXON. The Spacious Air. — The Open Fields and Downs. — In the Hedgerows.— On Open ; Heath and Moor. — On the Mountains. — Amongst the Evergreens. — Copse and Woodland. — By Stream and Pool. — The Sandy Wastes and Mudflats.— Sea-laved Rocks.— Birds of the Cities.— INDEX. "Enriched with excellent illustrations. A welcome addition to all libraries.
Page 58 - GEOLOGY: An Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors. BY GRENVILLE AJ COLE, FGS, MRIA, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and Examiner in the University of London.
Page 58 - Hawthorns • — -By the River — Along the Shingle — A Fragrant Hedgerow — A Connemara Bog — Where the Samphire grows — A Flowery Meadow — Among the Corn (a Study in Weeds) — In the Home of the Alpines — A City Rubbish-Heap — Glossary. " A FRESH AND STIMULATING book .... should take a high place The Illustrations are drawn with much skill." — The Times. " BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED One of the MOST ACCURATE as well as INTERESTING books of the kind we have seen.
Page 58 - It goes almost without saying that a Handbook of this subject will be in time one of the most generally useful works for the library or the desk.
Page 65 - Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain ; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum ; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal.
Page 220 - Peking, and who labor together in the utmost harmony for the common good. That there are remarkable analogies between societies of ants and human beings no one can doubt. If, according to Mr. G rote, 'positive morality under some form or other has existed in every society of which the world has ever had experience,' the present volume is an effort to show whether this passage be correct or not.
Page 58 - PHOTOGRAPHY: ITS HISTORY, PROCESSES, APPARATUS, AND MATERIALS. Comprising Working Details of all the More Important Methods.
Page 220 - The anthropoid apes no doubt approach nearer to man in bodily structure than do any other animals, but, when we consider the habits of ants, their large communities and elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and, even in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence.
Page 58 - RESEARCHES ON THE PAST AND PRESENT HISTORY OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. Including the latest Discoveries and their Practical Applications. BY DR. THOMAS LAMB PHIPSON. PART I. — The Earth's Atmosphere in Remote Geological Periods. PART II. — The Atmosphere of our present period. Appendices; Index. " The book should prove of interest to general readers, as well as to meteorologists and other students of science.
Page 220 - I have elsewhere suggested that this arises in great measure from the fact that hitherto we have tried to teach animals, rather than to learn from them — to convey our ideas to them, rather than to devise any language or code of signals by means of which they might communicate theirs to us.