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achromatic acid amount aniline animal aperture apparatus appearance atmosphere beautiful birds body bright byssus carbon carbonic acid centre colour combustion comets cone Connemara considerable contains copper crater curious dark Davy lamp diameter disc distance division earth edge eggs electric equal eruption existence explosion feet fire-damp fish force genus glass globe gun-cotton heat hymenium inches iron island lamp Lassell lava less light mass matter means metal microscope miles motion musk-rat nearly nitro-glycerine noticed objects observed obtained pass pileus plants plate pole portion position present probably produced Professor quantity remarkable result ring river Fowey rocks Roman round Roundstone Schröter Secchi seen side solution species specimens stars stone substance supposed surface T. W. WEBB telescope temperature Thor's Cave tint tion truffles tube vacuum tube visible volva waxwing white-headed woodpecker wire woodpeckers
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Página 473 - Museum of Science and Art. THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. Edited by DIONYSIUS LARDNER, DCL, formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. With upwards of 1 200 Engravings on Wood.
Página 297 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Página 151 - The Treasury of Botany, or Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom ; with which is incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms.
Página 111 - MA'LLOW, a market-town and parliamentary borough of Ireland, in the county of Cork, is beautifully situated on the left bank of the Blackwater, 19 miles north-north-west of the county town.
Página 152 - CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATURAL HISTORY, chiefly in relation to the Food of the People.
Página 151 - GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (THE) : OR, MONTHLY JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. "With which is incorporated "The Geologist." Edited by Henry Woodward, LL.D., FRS, FGS, &c., of the British Museum. Assisted by Professor John Morris, MA,FGS, &c., and Robert Etheridge, FRS, L. & E., FGS, &c., of the Museum of Practical Geology. 8vo, cloth. 1866 to 1884.
Página 153 - Cast Away on the Auckland Isles : a Narrative of the Wreck of the ' Grafton,' and of the Escape of the Crew, after Twenty Months
Página 34 - Homological Anatomy" seeks, in the character of an organ and part, those chiefly of relative position and connexions that guide to a conclusion, manifested by applying the same name to such part or organ, so far as the determination of the namesake-ism, or homology, has been carried out in the animal kingdom. This aim of anatomy concerns itself little, if at all, with function, and has led to generalisations of high import beyond the reach of one who rusts on final causes. It has been termed, grandiloquently,...
Página 38 - It is true, the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outelimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing ; thus all these creatures fall its prey.
Página 477 - the four discordant characters," the creature resembling a stag in its horns, a cow in its feet, a camel in its neck, and an ass in its tail. The horns, which belong only to the male, are large and branched, but differ in some important particulars from the antlers of the stag.