The Natural History of SelbourneJohn Lane, 1900 - 528 pages |
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Page xxxi
... Linnæus's great work on " The System of Nature " gave an impulse to the study of biology , the effect of which can scarcely be overrated . It was during the forty years roughly covered by White's observations that the science of life ...
... Linnæus's great work on " The System of Nature " gave an impulse to the study of biology , the effect of which can scarcely be overrated . It was during the forty years roughly covered by White's observations that the science of life ...
Page xxxii
... Linnæus . Why is this ? Simply because science is always growing ; and even the best of scientific books become rapidly antiquated . Nobody who seriously wishes to - day to learn anything about beasts or birds , about plants or flowers ...
... Linnæus . Why is this ? Simply because science is always growing ; and even the best of scientific books become rapidly antiquated . Nobody who seriously wishes to - day to learn anything about beasts or birds , about plants or flowers ...
Page 11
... gives an illustration in the first edition , to the Mytilus crista - galli of Linnæus . It is in reality Ostraa carinata , a characteristic mollusk of the Greensand . - ED . E Ostræa carinata called by Lister , Rastellum ; by.
... gives an illustration in the first edition , to the Mytilus crista - galli of Linnæus . It is in reality Ostraa carinata , a characteristic mollusk of the Greensand . - ED . E Ostræa carinata called by Lister , Rastellum ; by.
Page 46
... Linnæus ( see Syst . Nat . ) which he says " natat in fossis et urinatur . " I should be glad to procure one " plantis palmatis . " Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius , and to doubt whether it differs from his mus ...
... Linnæus ( see Syst . Nat . ) which he says " natat in fossis et urinatur . " I should be glad to procure one " plantis palmatis . " Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius , and to doubt whether it differs from his mus ...
Page 58
... that they also thought them all mostly females , at least fifty to one . This extraordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus ; that " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through Holland into Italy.
... that they also thought them all mostly females , at least fifty to one . This extraordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus ; that " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through Holland into Italy.
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