Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

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1880

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Page 140 - The expressure that it bears, green let it be, More fertile fresh than all the field to see ; And Honi soit qui mal y pense, write In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white ; Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee :— • Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
Page 62 - Men of action, aid and cheer them, As ye may ! There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow...
Page 24 - Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house," they all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired.
Page 175 - ... descended slightly, and then immediately rose to considerably above its original position. It seemed as if the true action of the heat was one of attraction, instantly overcome by ascending currents of air "31. In order to apply the heat in a more regular manner, a thermometer was inserted in a glass tube, having at its extremity a glass bulb about...
Page 83 - The unfortunate mother, now robbed of her eggs, might have at least saved her own life, as she could easily have escaped out of the pit-fall ; but, wonderful to tell, she chose rather to be buried alive along with her eggs. As the sand concealed from my view what was passing below, I laid hold of the spider, leaving the bag in the power of the ant-lion. But the affectionate mother, deprived of her bag, would not quit the spot where she had lost them, though I repeatedly pushed her with a twig.
Page 177 - ... at the end of a piece of very difficultly fusible green glass, specially made for steam-boiler gauges. In it was supported a thin bar of aluminium at the end of a long platinum wire. The upper end of the wire was passed through the top of the tube and well sealed in, for electrical purposes. The apparatus was sealed by fusion to the Sprengel pump, and exhaustion was kept going on for two days, until an induction-spark refused to pass across the vacuum. During this time the bulb and its contents...
Page 176 - To compare small things with great (to argue from pieces of straw up to heavenly bodies), it is not improbable that the attraction now shown to exist between a cold and a warm body will equally prevail when, for the temperature of melting ice is substituted the cold of space, for a pith ball a celestial sphere, and for an artificial vacuum a stellar void. In the radiant molecular energy of cosmical masses may at last be found that " agent acting constantly according to certain laws," which Newton...
Page 150 - Peronosporea, and not to Saprolegnia. As there is no other Peronospora than P. infestans known to grow upon the potato plant, it is clear that the resting-spores cannot rationally be referred to any other than the potato fungus. Added to this, I last year saw the secondary bodies clearly growing from the Peronospora threads. I attach great importance to the jointed threads, because De Bary, when he figures Artotrogus from " Montague's original specimen
Page 87 - The poison was not sufficient to affect the large mass of the cockroach a great deal, but the leg seemed to give it much pain, and it bent its head forward to caress the wound with its jaws, and now the object of the cunning spider was apparent. He ran instantly to the old position he had been routed from on the back of the neck, and while the...
Page 158 - ... from being grown artificially, but still the threads are characteristic of Peronospora infestans, and no known fungus but the one which causes the potato disease has vesicular swellings such as are shown at p. Mr. Chas. B. Plowright (surgeon, of King's Lynn), a gentleman who has long studied fungi, has patiently examined some of the living material with which I have been working this spring and early summer, and he writes me on May 19 to say : " I find plenty of branching, nodose conidiophores,...

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