The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1898 - 416 sider |
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... British Hirundines , published in the Philosophical Transactions , which we reviewed in a former volume . It is now reprinted , and the same sagacity of observation runs through the work before us . " The sliding down of a hill into a ...
... British Hirundines , published in the Philosophical Transactions , which we reviewed in a former volume . It is now reprinted , and the same sagacity of observation runs through the work before us . " The sliding down of a hill into a ...
Side 14
... British trees . The plane and horse - chestnut will outvie it in a dense and deep rich foliage , while the oak will far outstrip all in an imposing and venerable aspect . The beech was formerly much more planted than at present . It was ...
... British trees . The plane and horse - chestnut will outvie it in a dense and deep rich foliage , while the oak will far outstrip all in an imposing and venerable aspect . The beech was formerly much more planted than at present . It was ...
Side 15
... British Channel ; the other to the north . The Selborne stream makes one branch of the Wey ; and , meeting the Blackdown stream at Hedleigh , and the Alton and Farnham stream at Tilford - bridge , swells into a considerable river ...
... British Channel ; the other to the north . The Selborne stream makes one branch of the Wey ; and , meeting the Blackdown stream at Hedleigh , and the Alton and Farnham stream at Tilford - bridge , swells into a considerable river ...
Side 18
... British Flora , quercus robur , and sessiliflora . Several others , however , have been introduced , and grow well ; the quercus robur is , nevertheless , superior to all of them . The other species are said to be more susceptible of ...
... British Flora , quercus robur , and sessiliflora . Several others , however , have been introduced , and grow well ; the quercus robur is , nevertheless , superior to all of them . The other species are said to be more susceptible of ...
Side 41
... British Ornithology was drawn , was taken on the coast , near Bamborough Castle , Northumberland . Colonel Montague mentions a pair that began a nest in Hampshire , and Dr. Latham records a young hoopoe shot in the month of June . The ...
... British Ornithology was drawn , was taken on the coast , near Bamborough Castle , Northumberland . Colonel Montague mentions a pair that began a nest in Hampshire , and Dr. Latham records a young hoopoe shot in the month of June . The ...
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