Science-gossip, Volumes 7-8

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Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1900

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Page 90 - TWO-AND-A-HALF per CENT. INTEREST allowed on DEPOSITS, repayable on demand. TWO per CENT, on CURRENT ACCOUNTS, on the minimum monthly balances, when not drawn below ^100. STOCKS, SHARES, and ANNUITIES purchased and sold. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. For the encouragement of Thrift the Bank receives small sums on deposit, and allows Interest monthly on each completed Ģi.
Page 200 - animal" in this Act means any bird, beast, fish, or reptile which is not included in the Cruelty to Animals Acts, 1849 and 1854. 2. Any person shall be guilty of an offence who, whilst an animal is in captivity or close confinement, or is maimed, pinioned, or subjected to any appliance or contrivance for the purpose of hindering or preventing its escape from...
Page 200 - Intent, shall respectively be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, and in default of Payment, to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for a Period not exceeding Three...
Page 106 - BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. Illustrated by JOHN E. SOWERBY. Described, with an Introduction and a Key to the Natural Orders, by C. PIERPOINT JOHNSON.
Page 8 - THE BRITISH REPTILES: A Plain and Easy Account of the Lizards, Snakes, Newts, Toads, Frogs, and Tortoises indigenous to Great Britain.
Page 63 - Kynaston. [Communicated by permission of -the Director-General of HM Geological Survey.] A rock originally described by Mr. Teall from Kentallen is used by the authors as a type round which they group a peculiar series of basic rocks discovered in several localities. The rocks consist essentially of olivine and augite with smaller amounts of orthoclase, plagioclase and biotite, while apatite and magnetite are accessory.
Page 31 - At a place eighteen miles from its origin the whirlwind came upon a rick of oats, a considerable portion of which it carried right over the village of Ham and deposited in a field more than a mile and a half away. — A paper by Dr. Nils Ekholm, of Stockholm, was also read on the variations of the climate of the geological and historical past and their causes.
Page 45 - Crown Svo, 5s. net. LEISHMAN. The Westminster Directory. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by the Very Rev. T.
Page 306 - Itshead, which is provided with vibratile organs suitable for sweeping minute particles into the mouth, is directed downwards, and when examined by a lens in a good light appears to be bordered below by a gleaming band. There are no thoracic limbs. The hind limbs, which...
Page 37 - ... sense of man, animals which crawl upon their bellies and spit at, or poison, their prey — is yet, strange to say, an animal of striking beauty. The exquisite sensitiveness and constantly changing form of the antennae, the well-rounded plump body, the eyes set like small diamonds on the side of the head, the delicate feet, and, above all, the rich colouring and velvety texture of the skin, all combine to give these animals an aspect of quite exceptional beauty.

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