Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with Scientific Elucidations, Volum 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 |
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... tropical parts of the ocean and in the fixed or floating masses of ice of the Antarctic seas . Siliceous- shelled Polygastrica , and even Coscinodiscæ , with their green ovaries , have been found alive enveloped in masses of ice only ...
... tropical parts of the ocean and in the fixed or floating masses of ice of the Antarctic seas . Siliceous- shelled Polygastrica , and even Coscinodiscæ , with their green ovaries , have been found alive enveloped in masses of ice only ...
Side 7
... tropics . ( 6 ) There are animalculæ in the blood of frogs and of salmon , and even , according to Nordmann , in the fluids of the eyes of fishes and in the gills of the Bleak . Thus the most hidden recesses of creation teem with life ...
... tropics . ( 6 ) There are animalculæ in the blood of frogs and of salmon , and even , according to Nordmann , in the fluids of the eyes of fishes and in the gills of the Bleak . Thus the most hidden recesses of creation teem with life ...
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... tropics by Portulacas , Gomphrenas , and other low and succulent shore plants . The history of the vegetable covering of our planet , and its gradual propagation over the desert crust of the earth , has its epochs , as well as that ...
... tropics by Portulacas , Gomphrenas , and other low and succulent shore plants . The history of the vegetable covering of our planet , and its gradual propagation over the desert crust of the earth , has its epochs , as well as that ...
Side 10
... tropics . This increase can be denied only by those who have never quitted Europe , or who have neglected the study of physical geography . When , leaving our oak forests , we traverse the Alps or the Pyrenees , and enter Italy or Spain ...
... tropics . This increase can be denied only by those who have never quitted Europe , or who have neglected the study of physical geography . When , leaving our oak forests , we traverse the Alps or the Pyrenees , and enter Italy or Spain ...
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... tropics , variety and grandeur of vegetable forms ; to the north , the aspect of its meadows and green pastures , and the periodic re- awakening of nature at the first breath of the mild air of spring . Each zone , besides its own ...
... tropics , variety and grandeur of vegetable forms ; to the north , the aspect of its meadows and green pastures , and the periodic re- awakening of nature at the first breath of the mild air of spring . Each zone , besides its own ...
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Side 11 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Side 29 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Side 18 - A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Side 30 - Webster and Parkes's Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy ; comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping: As, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting them — A description of the various articles of Furniture, with the nature of their Materials — Duties of Servants— &c.
Side 28 - Days, in a regular progression of single Days ; with Interest at all the above Rates, from One to Twelve Months, and from One to Ten Years.
Side 21 - Moore.— The Power of the Soul over the Body, considered in relation to Health and Morals. By GEORGE MOORE, MD, Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
Side 17 - By David Low, Esq., FRSE, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, etc.; author of "Elements of Practical Agriculture, "etc.
Side 22 - DUTIES ; Or, Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their Households, and the Regulation of their Conduct in the various Relations and Duties of Married Life. By Mrs. W. PARKES.
Side 23 - PORTLOCK.- REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
Side 12 - Visits to Remarkable Places : Old Halls, Battle-Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. By WILLIAM HOWITT. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. with Wood Engravings, 25s. The Rural Life of England.