Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, Volumen8Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1873 |
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... Shell - fish . Insects . Tea , Coffee , and Chocolate . Tobacco and Opium . Furs . Feathers , Horns , and Fair . Animal Perfumes . urious anecdotes , and quaint illustration . Dr. Lankester has a singular power of illustrative keenness ...
... Shell - fish . Insects . Tea , Coffee , and Chocolate . Tobacco and Opium . Furs . Feathers , Horns , and Fair . Animal Perfumes . urious anecdotes , and quaint illustration . Dr. Lankester has a singular power of illustrative keenness ...
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... shells , a flint instrument beautifully and minutely serrated at the edge , and burned bones . The back or spine of the animal form was found beneath the peat moss to be formed by a careful adjustment of stones , the formation of which ...
... shells , a flint instrument beautifully and minutely serrated at the edge , and burned bones . The back or spine of the animal form was found beneath the peat moss to be formed by a careful adjustment of stones , the formation of which ...
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... shell , and would probably have continued to annoy him had he not caught sight of a comrade who was leisurely examining an empty whelk shell ( as a man might look over a house he fancied ) . Towards this comrade he went , and a smart ...
... shell , and would probably have continued to annoy him had he not caught sight of a comrade who was leisurely examining an empty whelk shell ( as a man might look over a house he fancied ) . Towards this comrade he went , and a smart ...
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... shells . S. WILLIAMS . - The Eyed Hawk - moth ( Smerinthus ocel- latus ) . J. A. - Mrs . Keating was the lady to whom stamps were sent . She is very likely travelling about . R. E. L. - You omitted to inclose the fern whose name was ...
... shells . S. WILLIAMS . - The Eyed Hawk - moth ( Smerinthus ocel- latus ) . J. A. - Mrs . Keating was the lady to whom stamps were sent . She is very likely travelling about . R. E. L. - You omitted to inclose the fern whose name was ...
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... Shells , Geological Maps , Hammers , Models of Gold Nuggets , all the recent publications , & c . , of J. TENNANT , Mineralogist to Her Majesty , 149. Strand , London , W.C. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION is given in MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY , by ...
... Shells , Geological Maps , Hammers , Models of Gold Nuggets , all the recent publications , & c . , of J. TENNANT , Mineralogist to Her Majesty , 149. Strand , London , W.C. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION is given in MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY , by ...
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