The Natural History Review, الأعداد 17-20Hodges & Smith, 1865 |
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... important family of Ruminantia , both as regards the number of its species , the size of many of them , and their importance to carnivorous Man , as affording him his principal sustenance . The Zebu or Bos indicus of Linnæus is a ...
... important family of Ruminantia , both as regards the number of its species , the size of many of them , and their importance to carnivorous Man , as affording him his principal sustenance . The Zebu or Bos indicus of Linnæus is a ...
الصفحة 14
... important order of Ruminants is also well represented , although not to the extent that it is in Africa , where the Antelope - group is very numerous . But it is hardly fair to compare the country we have been speaking of with the huge ...
... important order of Ruminants is also well represented , although not to the extent that it is in Africa , where the Antelope - group is very numerous . But it is hardly fair to compare the country we have been speaking of with the huge ...
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... important relation of its head to the bodies of the vertebræ . Since the publication of the note above referred to , we are informed by Mr. Flower , that the skeleton of a West African Manatee ( Manatus senegalensis ) has been received ...
... important relation of its head to the bodies of the vertebræ . Since the publication of the note above referred to , we are informed by Mr. Flower , that the skeleton of a West African Manatee ( Manatus senegalensis ) has been received ...
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... important nature than those we have last mentioned . Although commenced simply as a catalogue of the " Acanthopterygian " Fishes in the British Museum , the limits of this great division of the class Pisces have already been passed ...
... important nature than those we have last mentioned . Although commenced simply as a catalogue of the " Acanthopterygian " Fishes in the British Museum , the limits of this great division of the class Pisces have already been passed ...
الصفحة 21
... important character than that of the pharyngeal bones . He also omits altogether the soft - finned Pharyngognaths of Müller ( Scom- beresocidae ) , not considering the coalesced pharyngeal bones as a character of sufficient importance ...
... important character than that of the pharyngeal bones . He also omits altogether the soft - finned Pharyngognaths of Müller ( Scom- beresocidae ) , not considering the coalesced pharyngeal bones as a character of sufficient importance ...
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الصفحة 456 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
الصفحة 456 - Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work will find a place wherever botanical science is cultivated,' and the study of our native plants, with all their fascinating associations, held dear.
الصفحة 456 - BOOK OF RUTH IN HEBREW TEXT. With a critically revised Text, various Readings, including a new Collation of Twenty-eight Hebrew MSS., and a Grammatical and Critical Commentary ; to which is appended the Chaldee Targum. Demy 8vo.
الصفحة 348 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
الصفحة 522 - Europe; our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom are confined to hot, almost to tropical climates, and it is in such countries that we ai'e most likely to find the earliest traces of the human race.
الصفحة 290 - It first places its tendrils ready for action, as a polypus places its tentacula. If the tendril be displaced, it is acted on by the force of gravity and rights itself. It is acted on by the light, and bends towards or from it, or disregards it, whichever may be most advantageous. During several days the tendrils or internodes, or both, spontaneously revolve with a steady motion.
الصفحة 131 - Dawsoii carefully examined the laminated material, and he found it to consist of the remains of an organism which grew in large sessile patches, increasing at the surface by the addition of successive layers of chambers separated by calcareous laminae. Slices examined microscopically showed large irregular chambers with numerous rounded extensions, and bounded by walls of variable thickness, which are studded with septal orifices irregularly disposed ; the thicker parts of the walls revealed the...
الصفحة 525 - But the true savage is neither free nor noble ; he is a slave to his own wants, his own passions ; imperfectly protected from the weather, he suffers from the cold by night and the heat of the sun by day ; ignorant of agriculture, living by the chase, and improvident in success, hunger always stares him in the face, and often drives him to the dreadful alternative of cannibalism or death.
الصفحة 456 - ON THE POPULAR NAMES OF BRITISH PLANTS. Being an Explanation of the Origin and Meaning of the names of our indigenous and most commonly cultivated species.