First Steps to ZoologySimms and M'Intyre, 1849 |
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... perfect ease in that little film of liquid , and passing and repassing without ever touching . Nor is the feeling of wonder diminished when we endeavour to calculate their size , and form some estimate of their numbers . Some are so ...
... perfect ease in that little film of liquid , and passing and repassing without ever touching . Nor is the feeling of wonder diminished when we endeavour to calculate their size , and form some estimate of their numbers . Some are so ...
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... found that a Hydra might without injury be turned inside out , like the finger of a glove ; and if one were cut into a number of pieces , each piece would become a perfect Hydra . The Polypes of the next division are not naked like 16 ...
... found that a Hydra might without injury be turned inside out , like the finger of a glove ; and if one were cut into a number of pieces , each piece would become a perfect Hydra . The Polypes of the next division are not naked like 16 ...
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... perfect animal is soon raised up . Dr. Johnston , the learned author of a work on the British Zoophytes , mentions a characteristic occurrence respecting a Sea - anemone which had been brought to him . It might have been originally two ...
... perfect animal is soon raised up . Dr. Johnston , the learned author of a work on the British Zoophytes , mentions a characteristic occurrence respecting a Sea - anemone which had been brought to him . It might have been originally two ...
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... perfect animal , and they do not exist as solitary individuals , but as populous communities . Their habitations or polypidoms , the little cities of which they are both the architects and the occupants , are very variable both Fig . 14 ...
... perfect animal , and they do not exist as solitary individuals , but as populous communities . Their habitations or polypidoms , the little cities of which they are both the architects and the occupants , are very variable both Fig . 14 ...
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... perfect insect were masked or con- cealed in the figure of the caterpillar . The ravages of which the forester and the gardener complain , result most generally from the voracity of insects in their larva state . They eat much ...
... perfect insect were masked or con- cealed in the figure of the caterpillar . The ravages of which the forester and the gardener complain , result most generally from the voracity of insects in their larva state . They eat much ...
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Acorn-shells adapted annexed figure Fig appearance arms arranged beak beautiful beetles belonging birds Bittern Black-headed Gull body CARNIVORA Cetacea coasts colour common consists constitute covering crab creature Crustacea Cuttle-fish different species distinguished earth edible crab eggs Entozoa exhibit existence eyes feathers feet female fins fish flight floating four furnished gills habits head Horse-leech inches INFUSORIA inhabitants insects Ireland islands jaws known larvæ Leech legs length living lower MAGNIFIED membranous Mollusca Mollusks Monkeys mouth mussel naturalists nest NORTHERN DIVER Opossums organs Owls oyster peculiar PELICAN ISLAND Pinna placed poet Polypes possess pouch present order prey quadrupeds rays regarded remarkable reptiles resemble scientific name sea-water seen shell shores silk singular Soft-bodied animals Star-fish Stickle-back stomach structure substance suckers surface Swallow tail teeth tentacula Teredo term tion Tortoises trees tribes vegetable vertebrate vertebrate animals Vultures Whale wings worms young Zoea
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