Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

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Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1880 - 315 páginas
 

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Página 439 - Ireland, within the police district of Dublin metropolis, the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district ; and elsewhere in Ireland, The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851...
Página 440 - Majesty, it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries...
Página 229 - London, 1880, p. iii), observes : " that the exact nature of the phosphorescence was still an unsolved problem both to the physicist and biologist. Some years ago he had examined the spectrum of the glow-worm, and found that it was continuous, being rich in blue and green rays, and comparatively poor in red and yellow.
Página 439 - All indictable offences mentioned in this Act which shall be committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or Ireland shall be deemed to be offences of the same nature, and liable to the same punishments, as if they had been committed upon the land in England...
Página 517 - FRS, President, in the chair. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, September, and October, 1887, and called attention to certain interesting accessions which had been received during that period.
Página 410 - These experiments certainly seem to indicate the possession by ants of something approaching to language. It is impossible to doubt that the friends were brought out by the first ant ; and as she returned empty-handed to the nest, the others cannot have been induced to follow her merely by observing her proceedings.
Página 228 - Ent. Soc. London, 1880, p. ii., Mr. McLachlan . . " had at that time advanced the opinion that the phenomenon in question might be caused by currents of air inducing the insects to simultaneously change their direction of flight.
Página 440 - Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled " An Act for the preservation of Wild Fowl,
Página 440 - ... the making of which order the penalties imposed by this Act in respect of such wild birds shall in such county apply only to offences committed during the time specified in such order ; and the order for the extension or variation of such time shall be published, if made by the Secretary of State, in the London Gazette, or if made by the Lord Lieutenant, in the Dublin Gazette, and a copy of the London Gazette or Dublin Gazette containing any order made under this Act shall be evidence of the...
Página 440 - Where any offence under this Act is committed in or upon any waters forming the boundary between any two counties, districts of quarter sessions or petty sessions, such offence may be prosecuted before any justice or justices of the peace or sheriff in either of such counties or districts.

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