The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volumen9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... shells than are at all usual in chalk . It was not till the year 1858 , when the British steamer Cyclops , commanded by Captain Dayman , following nearly in the course of exploration pursued by Lieutenant Berryman in the United States ...
... shells than are at all usual in chalk . It was not till the year 1858 , when the British steamer Cyclops , commanded by Captain Dayman , following nearly in the course of exploration pursued by Lieutenant Berryman in the United States ...
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... shells . He believes that many of the so - called species ( even some of those described by Dr. Greville ) have originated in this manner . - Proceed- ings of Boston Society of Nat . Hist . 1869 . VOL . IX.-NO. XXXIV . G Influence of ...
... shells . He believes that many of the so - called species ( even some of those described by Dr. Greville ) have originated in this manner . - Proceed- ings of Boston Society of Nat . Hist . 1869 . VOL . IX.-NO. XXXIV . G Influence of ...
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... shells , and other sea - wrack . Has Mr. Mackintosh examined any of his ' raised sea - beaches ' and found them , or even any one of them , to be so composed ? Not one ! Has he produced a single sea - shell found in any of them ? Not ...
... shells , and other sea - wrack . Has Mr. Mackintosh examined any of his ' raised sea - beaches ' and found them , or even any one of them , to be so composed ? Not one ! Has he produced a single sea - shell found in any of them ? Not ...
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... shell Euomphalus pentangulatus , from Little Island , Cork , represented by the figures 12 a , b , and c , Pl . LVII . ( from Haughton ) , had frequently ( owing to the distortion and conse- quent change of form from their normal ...
... shell Euomphalus pentangulatus , from Little Island , Cork , represented by the figures 12 a , b , and c , Pl . LVII . ( from Haughton ) , had frequently ( owing to the distortion and conse- quent change of form from their normal ...
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... shell , inclosing a very open cancellated tissue , having extremely large spaces , comparable with those of ... shells or the genera Unio and Cyrena . Many of the layers are studded with great numbers of Cyprides , mostly as casts ir the ...
... shell , inclosing a very open cancellated tissue , having extremely large spaces , comparable with those of ... shells or the genera Unio and Cyrena . Many of the layers are studded with great numbers of Cyprides , mostly as casts ir the ...
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Página 167 - It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct, belonging by inheritance to the whole species, but is in each case the result of individual experience. As with the same experience some bees have acquired the habit and others have not, we must admit not only that these insects are intelligent, but that they differ from each other in their degrees of intelligence, some being slow in acquiring knowledge, others quicker.
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