Links in the Chain; Or, Popular Chapters on the Curiosities of Animal LifeJ. Hogg and Sons, 1862 - 295 páginas |
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... bottom of the North Pacific Ocean are being covered up by deposits of a similar character , in which the two valves of the shield are frequently found still united , and containing remains of the 14 INFUSORIAL EARTHS . internal soft ...
... bottom of the North Pacific Ocean are being covered up by deposits of a similar character , in which the two valves of the shield are frequently found still united , and containing remains of the 14 INFUSORIAL EARTHS . internal soft ...
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... bottom of ponds of clear water , and to the naked eye appears a mere animated dot of jelly . It is re- markable for the extraordinary simplicity of its structure , consist- ing wholly of a granular gelatinous substance named sarcode ...
... bottom of ponds of clear water , and to the naked eye appears a mere animated dot of jelly . It is re- markable for the extraordinary simplicity of its structure , consist- ing wholly of a granular gelatinous substance named sarcode ...
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... bottom of our ponds and ditches . Its special weakness in the matter of diet appears to be the Diato- macea ; but nothing comes amiss : and , as it goes shambling along in its uncertain way , over the surface of the mud or the stems and ...
... bottom of our ponds and ditches . Its special weakness in the matter of diet appears to be the Diato- macea ; but nothing comes amiss : and , as it goes shambling along in its uncertain way , over the surface of the mud or the stems and ...
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... bottom . It is not at all unusual to find two animalcules occupying a single case , this double occupancy being no doubt attributable to some little hitch or misadventure in the process of self - division . It is satisfactory , however ...
... bottom . It is not at all unusual to find two animalcules occupying a single case , this double occupancy being no doubt attributable to some little hitch or misadventure in the process of self - division . It is satisfactory , however ...
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... of these is the Stephanoceros Eichornii , which inhabits a delicate gelatinous tube , like the straight glasses used by the confectioners , to the bottom of which it is 24 BRICK - MAKING EXTRAORDINARY . attached by a long.
... of these is the Stephanoceros Eichornii , which inhabits a delicate gelatinous tube , like the straight glasses used by the confectioners , to the bottom of which it is 24 BRICK - MAKING EXTRAORDINARY . attached by a long.
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Términos y frases comunes
abundance amongst Anemones animal animalcules appearance Aquarium aquatic Argonaut arms attached Batrachians Bats beautiful Bees birds body Bulimi butterfly Cephalopods character cilia coast collector colour common Crab Crustaceans curious Cuttle-fish Cydippe delicate disc discovery doubt eggs elegant entire entomologists epicures epiphragm exhibit extraordinary extremity eyes favourite feet fish flowers Foraminifera Frog Gardens give Gorilla habits Helix Helix pomatia Hermit Crab insects interesting Jelly-fish known larvæ length less little creatures little fellow living look matter means microscopic minute Mollusc Monkeys monster Moths mouth native natural history naturalists Nautilus nest Nudibranchs observed organs plants Polyps pomatia pretty prey race reader remarkable rocks Rotifer Rotifera Salamander says seen shell shore side singular Snails sort species specimens speedily Star-fish stone structure suckers surface Tadpole tail tentacles tion Toad trees tribe tropic true Volvox Vorticella wings wonderful woods young
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Página 191 - The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay...
Página 270 - AFRICA. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa : with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals.
Página 277 - Suddenly, as we were yet creeping along, in a silence which made a heavy breath seem loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the gorilla. "Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and presently before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone through the jungle on his all-fours ; but when he saw our party he erected himself and looked us boldly in the face.
Página 217 - On saying this, I took a long stick which was lying there, held it for him to hook on, and then conveyed him to a high and stately mora. He ascended with wonderful rapidity, and in about a minute he was almost at the top of the tree. He now went off in a side direction, and caught hold of the branch of a neighbouring tree; he then proceeded towards the heart of the forest.
Página 73 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor unwelcome, into scenes...
Página 101 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward, from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air And wander in the luxury of light.
Página 207 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 112 - I went to dredge on the same spot, determined not to be cheated out of a specimen in such a way a second time, I brought with me a bucket of cold fresh water, to which article, star-fishes have a great antipathy. As I expected, a Luidia came...
Página 51 - ... else, an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food and without motion for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthly covering, and start into day a winged bird, — what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence...
Página 135 - ... of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course prevented, yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chance...