Annual report and transactions, Bände 1-2

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Seite 115 - ... and then, luckily recollecting himself, added, " except that which your Majesty was graciously pleased to bestow upon me ;
Seite 27 - ... 7. When the external organs arrive at this final form before the organs of reproduction are matured, these, changes are known as metamorphoses ; when, on the contrary, the organs of reproduction are functionally perfect before the external organs, or when the creature has the power of budding, then the phenomenon is known as alternation of generations.
Seite 94 - The original Beginning of this Priorie was after this Fascion : One William Warwist, Bisshop of Excester, displeasid with the Chanons or Prebendaries of a Fre Chapelle of the Fundation of the Saxon Kinges...
Seite 114 - when he was pointed out to me at a public meeting, where a great crowd was assembled ; I got as near to him as I could from the pressure of the people, to touch the skirt of his coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind.
Seite 22 - ... the changes which it goes through are known as metamorphoses. Entomologists have generally considered the life of all insects to be divisible into four well-marked periods — that of the egg, the larva or caterpillar, the pupa or chrysalis, and, finally, the imago or perfect insect. It is true that in some orders, as, for instance, the Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (bees), Lepidoptera (butterflies), and Diptera (flies), the...
Seite 94 - Plymton, erectid a college of as many as were ther at Bosenham in Southsax, and annexid the gift of them to his successors Bisshops of Excester. Then he set up at Plymton a priorie of canons-regular, and after was there buried in the chapitre house.
Seite 115 - Of the small villa already mentioned in Dr. Beattie's Diary, which Sir Joshua built for his recreation, on Richmond Hill, Sir William Chambers was the architect ; but not because it was intended to make any display of taste in the building, for convenience alone was consulted in it. In the summer season it was the frequent custom of Sir Joshua to dine at this place with select parties of his friends.
Seite 26 - That the apparent abruptness of the changes which they undergo arises in great measure from the hardness of their skin, which permits no gradual alteration of form, and which is itself rendered necessary in order to afford sufficient support to the muscles. " 4. That the immobility of the pupa or chrysalis depends on the rapidity of the changes going on in it. " 5. That although the majority of insects go through three wellmarked stages after leaving the egg, still a large number arrive at maturity...
Seite 115 - Plympton, that, one day, after dining at the house, himself and his party took an evening walk in Richmond Gardens, when, very unexpectedly, at a turning of one of the avenues, they suddenly met the King, accompanied by a part of the Royal Family ; and when, as his Majesty saw him, it was impossible for him to withdraw without being noticed.

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