First Steps to ZoologySimms and M'Intyre, 1849 |
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... adapted for more juvenile readers . In deference to their wishes , I have now endeavoured to furnish one , shorter , simpler , and with fewer hard words . " The title I owe to the kind suggestion of my friend , Dr. J. L. Drummond ...
... adapted for more juvenile readers . In deference to their wishes , I have now endeavoured to furnish one , shorter , simpler , and with fewer hard words . " The title I owe to the kind suggestion of my friend , Dr. J. L. Drummond ...
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... adapted for seizing ; some have one simple central mouth ; in others , both its structure and position are different ; in some the margin is furnished with long contractile threads , whence the well - known stinging secretion is ...
... adapted for seizing ; some have one simple central mouth ; in others , both its structure and position are different ; in some the margin is furnished with long contractile threads , whence the well - known stinging secretion is ...
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... air diffused through the sea- water . In the next tribe of Annelids , a new modifi- cation of these organs is exhibited , one admirably Fig . 28 . ARENICOLA . adapted to their peculiar habits and modes of life . 47 28.
... air diffused through the sea- water . In the next tribe of Annelids , a new modifi- cation of these organs is exhibited , one admirably Fig . 28 . ARENICOLA . adapted to their peculiar habits and modes of life . 47 28.
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Robert Patterson. adapted to their peculiar habits and modes of life . All the individuals of this assemblage dwell in tubes , consisting either of shelly matter , secreted from their own bodies , or of particles of sand and gravel glued ...
Robert Patterson. adapted to their peculiar habits and modes of life . All the individuals of this assemblage dwell in tubes , consisting either of shelly matter , secreted from their own bodies , or of particles of sand and gravel glued ...
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... adapted for swimming , and furnished with one central eye ( Fig . 33 ) . The animal of that Acorn - shell , now fixed so immoveably upon the rock , had , at one time , an elliptic figure , two eyes mounted upon footstalks , and six pair ...
... adapted for swimming , and furnished with one central eye ( Fig . 33 ) . The animal of that Acorn - shell , now fixed so immoveably upon the rock , had , at one time , an elliptic figure , two eyes mounted upon footstalks , and six pair ...
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Acorn-shells adapted animals appearance arms arranged Baleen Whale beak beautiful Bees beetles belonging birds Bittern BLACK-HEADED GULL BOAT-FLY body British CARNIVORA Cetacea coasts colour common covering crab creature Crustacea Cuttle-fish deposited distinguished earth Earth-worm edible crab eggs exhibit eyes Falcons feathers feet female fins fish flight floating furnished gills habits head Horse-leech inches INFUSORIA inhabitants insects Ireland islands jaws known larvæ Leech legs length Limpet living Lizards Lobster lower MAGNIFIED male membranous Mollusca Mollusks Monkeys mouth mussel naturalists nest NORTHERN DIVER Opossums organs Owls oyster peculiar Pinna placed poet Polypes possess pouch present order prey quadrupeds rays regarded remarkable represented reptiles resemble scientific name Sea-urchin sea-water seen Sharks shell shores silk singular Star-fish Stickle-back structure substance suckers surface Swallow tail teeth tentacula Teredo term tion Tortoises trees tribes Vultures WASPS Whale wings worms young ZOEA