A handy-book of rock namesHardwrike, 1873 - 139 páginas |
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... cloth , fully illustrated , price 6s . Mr. Smith is acknowledged to be one of the first authorities on Ferns , having been engaged nearly half a century in arranging them at Kew . The Fern Collector's Album . A descriptive Folio for the ...
... cloth , fully illustrated , price 6s . Mr. Smith is acknowledged to be one of the first authorities on Ferns , having been engaged nearly half a century in arranging them at Kew . The Fern Collector's Album . A descriptive Folio for the ...
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... cloth , coloured by hand , price 4s . " We could while away a long summer day talking of the pleasant things sug- gested by this little book . Although all intelligent persons cannot become bota- nists , not to know the wild flowers of ...
... cloth , coloured by hand , price 4s . " We could while away a long summer day talking of the pleasant things sug- gested by this little book . Although all intelligent persons cannot become bota- nists , not to know the wild flowers of ...
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... cloth case for pocket , 10s . 6d . ; on canvas , with rollers and varnished , for hanging up , 10s . 6d . " Before the appearance of Mr. Smith's book scarcely more than three or four kinds were freely accepted by prudent cooks . We have ...
... cloth case for pocket , 10s . 6d . ; on canvas , with rollers and varnished , for hanging up , 10s . 6d . " Before the appearance of Mr. Smith's book scarcely more than three or four kinds were freely accepted by prudent cooks . We have ...
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... cloth , price 58. See pages 56 to 64 . At Home in the Wilderness : Being Adventures and Experiences in Uncivilized Regions , in which it is shown where and when to encamp ; how to equip and manage a train of pack mules ; break , gear ...
... cloth , price 58. See pages 56 to 64 . At Home in the Wilderness : Being Adventures and Experiences in Uncivilized Regions , in which it is shown where and when to encamp ; how to equip and manage a train of pack mules ; break , gear ...
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... cloth , illustrated , price 4s . I. On the Formation of Natural Soils by Derivation from Rocks , and on the Improvement of Soils by the admixture of Minerals . II . On Natural and Artificial Springs , and on the various sources of Water ...
... cloth , illustrated , price 4s . I. On the Formation of Natural Soils by Derivation from Rocks , and on the Improvement of Soils by the admixture of Minerals . II . On Natural and Artificial Springs , and on the various sources of Water ...
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aggregate amphibole Arenaceous argillaceous Argillous Augyte beds bituminous British Calcareous carbonaceous Chloritic classed clay cloth coal colour compact concretionary Conglomeritic contains Cotta Crown 8vo crystalline crystals Demy 8vo deposited derivate rocks Dolomitic drift dykes elvanyte Euryte F.R.S. Illustrated Fcap felsitic felspar felspathic felstone Ferruginous fissile foliation formed gneiss Gneissoid granite granitoid granular Grass grit Hematitic highly siliceous Hornblendic igneous rocks Illus Ingenite intrusive Ireland Jukes labradorite lamination Lankester layers less Lignyte limestone marcasite mass matrix metamorphic metamorphosed mica micaceous Microscopic minerals occur oligoclase oligoclase granite Ophyte orthoclase Plants plates Plutonic Popular Science Review porphyritic Prof pyrite pyroxene quartz Quartzose Quartzyte R. A. Proctor Ribaned ripidolite sand sandstone schist schistose Sedges sedimentary rocks shale siliceous slate sometimes Sowerby's English Botany spheroidal steatyte stone Structural Varieties Subgroup Subvar Subvarieties surface Syenyte texture Trachyte tuff Tuffose Turf usually Varieties in Composition veins Vesicular Volcanic weather Whinstone
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Página 1 - A clear, bold, distinctive type enables the reader to take In at a glance the arrangement and divisions of every page. And Mrs. Lankester has added to the technical description by the editor an extremely interesting popular sketch, which follows in smaller type. The...
Página 12 - SYMONDS, Rev. WS, Rector of Pendock. OLD BONES; or, Notes for Young Naturalists. With References to the Typical Specimens in the British Museum. Second Edition, much improved and enlarged. Numerous Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.
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Página 52 - ... is conducted and contributed to by expert naturalists, who are cheerful companions, as all good naturalists are ; technical enough to make the general reader feel that they are in earnest, and are not insulting him by writing down to his comprehension, but natural enough and direct enough in their records of facts, their questioning and answering each other concerning curiosities of nature. The reader who buys for himself their monthly budget of notes and discussions upon pleasant points in natural...
Página 1 - SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYMB), LL.DFLS, &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth Notice," " The British Ferns,
Página 21 - Education, &c., of more than i2,ooo distinguished Heads of Families in the United Kingdom, their Heirs Apparent or Presumptive, together with a Record of the Patronage at their disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c.
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Página 9 - MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS: How to Distinguish easily the Difference between Edible and Poisonous Fungi. Two large Sheets, containing Figures of 29 Edible and 31 Poisonous Species, drawn the natural size, and Coloured from Living Specimens. With descriptive letterpress, 6s. ; on canvas, in cloth case for pocket, los.