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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... produced by Fresh Water on some Marine Animals and Plants . Read to the Belfast Natural History Society , by the President , James L. Drummond , M.D. , De- cember 30. 1826 121 Indications of Spring . By Robert Marsham , Esq . , and Lord ...
... produced by Fresh Water on some Marine Animals and Plants . Read to the Belfast Natural History Society , by the President , James L. Drummond , M.D. , De- cember 30. 1826 121 Indications of Spring . By Robert Marsham , Esq . , and Lord ...
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... produced by a current in the drop ; although many particles appeared to be more influenced by it than others , which occasioned a change in their relative positions . Hence I became convinced , that in order to make the experiment ...
... produced by a current in the drop ; although many particles appeared to be more influenced by it than others , which occasioned a change in their relative positions . Hence I became convinced , that in order to make the experiment ...
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... produce counter - currents . A drop of water placed under the micro- scope , may be regarded as equal , in apparent magnitude , to a quart of the same fluid in a water - glass , and will be subject to the various currents that may be ...
... produce counter - currents . A drop of water placed under the micro- scope , may be regarded as equal , in apparent magnitude , to a quart of the same fluid in a water - glass , and will be subject to the various currents that may be ...
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... 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 at liberty . Con- finement was the worst punishment he could receive , and whenever ...
... 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 at liberty . Con- finement was the worst punishment he could receive , and whenever ...
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... produced from almost every order , but in none is this sportiveness more conspicuous than in the homopterous sec- tion of the Hemiptera , especially in Fabricius's genus Cen- tròtus . Having received two insects that remarkably verify ...
... produced from almost every order , but in none is this sportiveness more conspicuous than in the homopterous sec- tion of the Hemiptera , especially in Fabricius's genus Cen- tròtus . Having received two insects that remarkably verify ...
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