Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 9West, Newman, 1851 |
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Página 3182 - Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream, But kissed it and then fled, as thou mightest in dream. There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets...
Página 3148 - On the Probable Relation between Magnetism and the Circulation of the Atmosphere, by Lieut.
Página 3217 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people, that did pas In travell to and froe: a little wyde There was an holy chappell edifyde, Wherein the hermite dewly wont to say His holy things each morne and eventyde : Thereby a christall streame did gently play, Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway.
Página 3068 - ... adopted in a liberal spirit, — I allude to the distribution of duplicates of rare British species, on the plan which has now been found to work so well for a considerable period at the Botanical Society of London. The President appointed as Vice-Presidents, Messrs. Bond, WW Saunders and GR Waterhouse. The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the donors : ' Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege,' tome 6, being ' Revue des Odonates ou Libellules...
Página 3182 - When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears. And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may, And cherry blossoms, and white cups, whose wine Was the bright dew, yet drained not by the day; And wild roses, and ivy serpentine, With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray; And flowers azure, black, and streaked with gold, Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.
Página 3097 - According to annual custom, the Council have to make the following Report on the state and progress of the Society during the past year. The number of Members at the last Anniversary was, Ordinary Members, 141 ; Associates and Honorary, 5 ; giving a total of 146.
Página 3004 - It ran with great speed, and upon being captured uttered loud screams, and fought and struggled violently ; it was kept alive three or four days on board the schooner and then killed, and the body roasted and ate by the crew, each partaking of the dainty, which was declared to be delicious.
Página 3273 - Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field. There they are privileged; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode.
Página 3299 - There was another more wonderful but hardly so wellauthenticated story of a boy who never could get rid of a strong wolfish smell, and who was seen not long after his capture to be visited by three wolves which came evidently with hostile intentions, but which after closely examining him, he seeming not the least alarmed, played with him, and some nights afterwards brought their relations, making the number of visitors amount to five ; the number of cubs the litter he had been taken from was composed...
Página 3017 - Yankee, he had, fortunately, sufficient selfcommand to curb his indignation, and proposed that his claim to the ownership of the bird should be at once put to the test by an experiment, which several Americans, who were present, admitted to be perfectly reasonable, and in which their countryman was at last persuaded to acquiesce. It was this ; Captain Johnson was to be admitted to an interview with the hawk (who, by the way, had as yet shown no partiality for any person since her arrival in the New...