The Assistant of Education: Religious and Literary, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 7Baker and Fletcher, 1826 |
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... ANIMAL KINGDOM , 35 , 102 , 162 , 217 , 280 , 337 CONVERSATIONS ON GEOLOGY ....... DESCRIPTION OF BRITISH TREES . The Mountain Ash The Lime - tree The Yew The Ash The Hazel The Poplar EXTRACTS . ... ... A Lesson to Prosperity From Mrs ...
... ANIMAL KINGDOM , 35 , 102 , 162 , 217 , 280 , 337 CONVERSATIONS ON GEOLOGY ....... DESCRIPTION OF BRITISH TREES . The Mountain Ash The Lime - tree The Yew The Ash The Hazel The Poplar EXTRACTS . ... ... A Lesson to Prosperity From Mrs ...
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... ANIMAL KINGDOM . CONVERSATION XI . CLASS ARTICULATA - SUB - CLASS INSECTS . Their means of defence , and luminous properties . ANNA . Only smell , mama , this beautiful beetle , which settled on my glove , as I was walking in the gar ...
... ANIMAL KINGDOM . CONVERSATION XI . CLASS ARTICULATA - SUB - CLASS INSECTS . Their means of defence , and luminous properties . ANNA . Only smell , mama , this beautiful beetle , which settled on my glove , as I was walking in the gar ...
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... animal . I will not enter , however , into a . minute detail on this part of their history : it is sufficient to say that the power of emitting scents and fluids is to numbers , particularly among the beetle and bug tribes , their most ...
... animal . I will not enter , however , into a . minute detail on this part of their history : it is sufficient to say that the power of emitting scents and fluids is to numbers , particularly among the beetle and bug tribes , their most ...
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... will feed only on living prey . Some of the beetles , weevils , and saw - flies have recourse to the same artifice ; and so do spiders , which , VOL . VII . in this instance , I may again class with insects THE ANIMAL KINGDOM . 37.
... will feed only on living prey . Some of the beetles , weevils , and saw - flies have recourse to the same artifice ; and so do spiders , which , VOL . VII . in this instance , I may again class with insects THE ANIMAL KINGDOM . 37.
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... animals do : I think indeed that we have sufficient proof that they do not : for an insect impaled upon a pin , will often devour its prey with as much avidity as when at liberty ; or if deprived of parts of its limbs , it will still ...
... animals do : I think indeed that we have sufficient proof that they do not : for an insect impaled upon a pin , will often devour its prey with as much avidity as when at liberty ; or if deprived of parts of its limbs , it will still ...
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