| Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention, and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 pages
...their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention ; • and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seems to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...often to be seen sucking a spaniel bitch. Many other instances might be brought forward. — KD. from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1854 - 532 pages
...often to be seen sucking a spaniel bitch. Many other instai:' might be brought forward. — ED. from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.* Tor to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 pages
...mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in....chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.2 For to say (1) This is not the case at Oxford, for there is a large field which is flooded... | |
| John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 pages
...their numbers and fecundity, earth worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the cham of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some qaadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation.... | |
| John Fleming - 1859 - 262 pages
...Notwithstanding the range here indicated, he finds room for such observations as these : — " Dew-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, might make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds and some quadrupeds which are... | |
| Gilbert White - 1861 - 528 pages
...to I'C seen sucking a spaniel bitch. JVIany other instances might be brought forward. — ED. from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Mature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.* For to say nothing of half the birds, and some... | |
| Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...mighty in their effect from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention, and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,... | |
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