Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volume 2John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829 - Natural history |
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... passed . Of course the speed was increased , and the nails he stuck in to keep himself on produced a squeaking ; but Jack was never thrown , and became so fond of the exercise , that he was obliged to be shut up whenever the pigs were ...
... passed . Of course the speed was increased , and the nails he stuck in to keep himself on produced a squeaking ; but Jack was never thrown , and became so fond of the exercise , that he was obliged to be shut up whenever the pigs were ...
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... may occasionally do so , nevertheless , though he failed to discover them in those situations . VOL . II . - No. 6 . C pose of passing into a dormant state ; especially as On the Arrival and Retreat of British Hirundines . 17.
... may occasionally do so , nevertheless , though he failed to discover them in those situations . VOL . II . - No. 6 . C pose of passing into a dormant state ; especially as On the Arrival and Retreat of British Hirundines . 17.
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... passing into a dormant state ; especially as we know that it can , and occasionally does , subsist with us for a con- siderable time after the usual period of its disappearance . The following Table shows that the swift is sometimes ...
... passing into a dormant state ; especially as we know that it can , and occasionally does , subsist with us for a con- siderable time after the usual period of its disappearance . The following Table shows that the swift is sometimes ...
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... passed these molecules , it only shows how much more im- portance they attach to theory than to experiment , and how little justice they are disposed to concede to an observer , who is behind none in doing justice to them . O. ART . II ...
... passed these molecules , it only shows how much more im- portance they attach to theory than to experiment , and how little justice they are disposed to concede to an observer , who is behind none in doing justice to them . O. ART . II ...
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... passed almost all his time before the looking - glass , and lived many years after , at length dying from an accidental injury . S. Bowdich . The Chile Horse . - One sent by the supreme director of Chile to His Majesty is of a milk ...
... passed almost all his time before the looking - glass , and lived many years after , at length dying from an accidental injury . S. Bowdich . The Chile Horse . - One sent by the supreme director of Chile to His Majesty is of a milk ...
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