Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Volumen5

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Norfolk Naturalists' Trust and Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society., 1894

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Página 519 - Many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedgerows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch, where we now see manufacturing towns and seaports renowned to the farthest ends of the world.
Página 18 - List of the Vertebrated Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1872 Ditto.
Página 270 - Take three pounds of beef, beat fine in a mortar, Put it into the Swan — that is, when you've caught her. Some pepper, salt, mace, some nutmeg, an onion, Will heighten the flavour in Gourmand's opinion. Then tie it up tight with a small piece of tape, That the gravy and other things may not escape. A meal paste, rather stiff, should be laid on the breast, And some whited-brown paper should cover the rest. Fifteen minutes at least ere the Swan you take down, Pull the paste off' the bird, that the...
Página 161 - A Descriptive Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum...
Página 36 - III. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District, with Atlas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°.
Página 519 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Página 28 - A Memoir on the Birds of Greenland : with Descriptions and Notes on the Species observed in the late Voyage of Discovery, in Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay.
Página 270 - To a gravy of beef, good and strong I opine, You.ll be right if you add half a pint of port wine ; Pour this through the swan, yes, quite through the belly, Then serve the whole up with some hot currant jelly.
Página 161 - A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the Raptorial Birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum.
Página 25 - Parfitt. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the .Devonshire Association for the advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 1876.] PARIS.

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