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... PROFESSOR IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND . MY DEAR OWEN : In dedicating to you this little book , which would never have appeared in its present form without your suggestion and encouragement , I have only to hope that it ...
... PROFESSOR IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND . MY DEAR OWEN : In dedicating to you this little book , which would never have appeared in its present form without your suggestion and encouragement , I have only to hope that it ...
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... Professor who gave to the world the Physiologie du Goût . " Parmi les petits oiseaux , le premier , par ordre d'excellence , est sans contredit le bec - figue . Il s'engraisse au moins autant que le rouge - gorge , ou l'ortolan , et la ...
... Professor who gave to the world the Physiologie du Goût . " Parmi les petits oiseaux , le premier , par ordre d'excellence , est sans contredit le bec - figue . Il s'engraisse au moins autant que le rouge - gorge , ou l'ortolan , et la ...
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... Thompson was disposed so to con- sider them but Professor Owen found that these supposed gastric hairs presented under the microscope the complex structure characteristic of those of the larva of the tiger - THE CUCKOO . 87.
... Thompson was disposed so to con- sider them but Professor Owen found that these supposed gastric hairs presented under the microscope the complex structure characteristic of those of the larva of the tiger - THE CUCKOO . 87.
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... Professor Savi's excellent Ornitologia Toscana , vol . i . p . 74 , is the only Italian species which migrates ; passing the winter in Africa and Southern Asia , and the summer in the south of Europe . It feeds wholly upon beetles ...
... Professor Savi's excellent Ornitologia Toscana , vol . i . p . 74 , is the only Italian species which migrates ; passing the winter in Africa and Southern Asia , and the summer in the south of Europe . It feeds wholly upon beetles ...
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... Professor Kaup . There is now ground for believing that Sir Roderick Mur- chison's fossil quadruped found at Eningen , was not a true fox . * The dog , the wolf , the jackal , and the fox , are all collected under the generic ...
... Professor Kaup . There is now ground for believing that Sir Roderick Mur- chison's fossil quadruped found at Eningen , was not a true fox . * The dog , the wolf , the jackal , and the fox , are all collected under the generic ...
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Page 37 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 299 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 78 - The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Page 80 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 91 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 97 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 299 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Page 148 - Polish swan to be fifty-seven inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail...