A Manual of the Sea-anemones Commonly Found on the English CoastJohn Van Voorst, 1856 - 123 Seiten |
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... question , and therefore of all animals ; we get into a habit of discrimination , of noticing what sort of formation and of habit is peculiar to a sea - anemone , and what those characters are which it shares in common with certain ...
... question , and therefore of all animals ; we get into a habit of discrimination , of noticing what sort of formation and of habit is peculiar to a sea - anemone , and what those characters are which it shares in common with certain ...
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... question is a simple one , I am afraid it will take more than a few words to frame an intel- ligent and intelligible answer . Suppose we take a morning stroll on Capstone , and ask the first half - dozen of our friends whom we chance to ...
... question is a simple one , I am afraid it will take more than a few words to frame an intel- ligent and intelligible answer . Suppose we take a morning stroll on Capstone , and ask the first half - dozen of our friends whom we chance to ...
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... question . Our remaining friends all appear either to have " read " or to have " heard " about sea - anemones , but do not seem to have benefited by either pro- cess . One person alludes to them as " interesting proofs of the natural ...
... question . Our remaining friends all appear either to have " read " or to have " heard " about sea - anemones , but do not seem to have benefited by either pro- cess . One person alludes to them as " interesting proofs of the natural ...
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... question . These " polyps " are of three kinds : - 1. Hydraforms . Each polyp is solitary or joined to a stem common to a great many individuals ; and the stem or " polyp - house , " as it is called , is horny , and hollowed like a reed ...
... question . These " polyps " are of three kinds : - 1. Hydraforms . Each polyp is solitary or joined to a stem common to a great many individuals ; and the stem or " polyp - house , " as it is called , is horny , and hollowed like a reed ...
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... question- " WHAT IS A SEA - ANEMONE ? " and I think the answer cannot be shortened , without running a great risk of vagueness and inaccuracy . The intelligent reader may say , This is all pretty clear ; but , in the first piace , how ...
... question- " WHAT IS A SEA - ANEMONE ? " and I think the answer cannot be shortened , without running a great risk of vagueness and inaccuracy . The intelligent reader may say , This is all pretty clear ; but , in the first piace , how ...
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Actinia bellis Actinia coriacea Actinia mesembryanthemum aerating anguicoma animalcules animals Anthea cereus anthos aurora base beads beautiful Bunodes Chapter Charybdis chisel Chromolith clavata colour common coral Cornwall crabs crowbar daisy diameter dianthus duated ECHINODERMS flower fragacea G. H. Lewes gemmacea genera genus glass Glaucous Gosse's Greek green habits hard words Helianthoids Hydra Ilfracombe inches John Van Voorst Latin lines living Lundy margaritifera margin means mollusc mones Morte-stone Natural History naturalist nivea North Devon objects observation oral disc orange organic bodies ovaries oxygen parasitica plants PLATE polyps possessing Radiates Rat Island reader receptacle ring rocks rosea round Sagartia sea-anemone sea-water sea-weed skin snowy soft species specific name specimens spike-cases stones Strawberry Anemone streaked sunflower-shaped tacles tank Tenby tentacles thallia thick-skinned tide troglodytes true zoophyte tubercles variety vegetable venusta Voorst warts Warts arranged Weymouth whilst white threads
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Seite 40 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Seite 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 89 - This is an assemblage of nearly related species, agreeing with one another in general structure and appearance more closely than they accord with other species. Thus the genus Rosa or rose includes plants which are obviously allied as regards their general character, their flower, and their fruit.
Seite 93 - No classification can be made unless the meaning of the • term species is defined. By species, then, are meant so many individuals as are presumed to have been formed at the creation of the world, and to have been perpetuated ever since.
Seite 87 - Exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non Aquila impotens possit diruere aut innumerabilis annorum series et fuga temporum.
Seite 26 - ... an old ivory paper-knife, and a small net made by twisting a piece of strong wire into the shape of a circle with a tail to it, and fastening a bag of muslin round the edge of the ring. As to the hammer and chisel, these are indispensable. A great number of the...
Seite 54 - Disc flat, two or three times as broad as the body when the latter is at all lengthened. Tentacles very numerous, small and crowded horizontally on the outer edge of the disc.
Seite 70 - Common table-salt . . 3j ounces. Epsom salts .... J ounce. Chloride of magnesium 200 grains"!