Nature, Volume 19Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1879 - Electronic journals |
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... length . The full - grown male Indian tiger , there- fore , may be said to be from 9 to 12 feet or 12 feet 2 inches , the tigress from 8 to 10 or perhaps in very rare instances 11 feet in length , the height being from 3 to 3 , or ...
... length . The full - grown male Indian tiger , there- fore , may be said to be from 9 to 12 feet or 12 feet 2 inches , the tigress from 8 to 10 or perhaps in very rare instances 11 feet in length , the height being from 3 to 3 , or ...
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... length , and once , at Dinagepore , in Bengal , over 12 feet . I have the skin of the largest tiger I think I ever saw , and it measures 12 feet 2 inches . This tiger was killed near Jubbulpore , in Central India , by an old Thakoor ...
... length , and once , at Dinagepore , in Bengal , over 12 feet . I have the skin of the largest tiger I think I ever saw , and it measures 12 feet 2 inches . This tiger was killed near Jubbulpore , in Central India , by an old Thakoor ...
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... length . The full - grown male Indian tiger , there- fore , may be said to be from 9 to 12 feet or 12 feet 2 inches , the tigress from 8 to 10 or perhaps in very rare instances 11 feet in length , the height being from 3 to 34 , or ...
... length . The full - grown male Indian tiger , there- fore , may be said to be from 9 to 12 feet or 12 feet 2 inches , the tigress from 8 to 10 or perhaps in very rare instances 11 feet in length , the height being from 3 to 34 , or ...
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... length of the largest he has ever killed or seen . He refers to examples of large tigers described by various observers , but he doubts the accuracy of the measurements , which he thinks may have been uninten- tionally exaggerated . His ...
... length of the largest he has ever killed or seen . He refers to examples of large tigers described by various observers , but he doubts the accuracy of the measurements , which he thinks may have been uninten- tionally exaggerated . His ...
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... length . РО The curious effect of pressure on the electric resistance of semi - conductors was noticed so long ago as 1856 by M. du Moncel , who wrote as follows in the second edition of his " Exposé des Applications de l'Electricité ...
... length . РО The curious effect of pressure on the electric resistance of semi - conductors was noticed so long ago as 1856 by M. du Moncel , who wrote as follows in the second edition of his " Exposé des Applications de l'Electricité ...
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