Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

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West, Newman, 1890
 

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Página 306 - What are the fewest and simplest assumptions which, being granted, the whole existing order of nature would result?
Página 174 - The strange gestures of the little animal strongly excited the attention of the officers, who, with one consent, resolved to suffer it to continue its singular actions unmolested. Its exertions now appeared to be greater, every moment. It shook its head, leaped about the table, and exhibited signs of the most extatic delight.
Página 174 - One evening in the month of December, as a few officers on a British man-of-war in the harbour of Portsmouth were seated around the fire, one of them began to play a plaintive air on the violin. He had scarcely performed ten minutes when a Mouse, apparently frantic, made its appearance in the centre of the floor, near the large table which usually stands in the ward-room, the residence of the lieutenants in ships of the line.
Página 165 - Although the existence of a few widely-scattered individuals enables us to say that the bison is not yet absolutely extinct in a wild state, there is no reason to hope that a single wild and unprotected individual will remain alive ten years hence.
Página 110 - MA, FRS, President, in the chair. The President announced that he had nominated Capt.
Página 158 - I was mightily delighted with the sight of this old Hall, and was pleased the more because it is adorned with old Stags' Horns, under some of which are the following Inscriptions on Brass Plates, which are the only Inscriptions I ever saw of the Kind:— I.
Página 280 - Lampyridii contained in the Imperial Museum of Calcutta, with descriptions of new species, and a list of the species at present described from India, by the Rev.
Página 172 - ... his only recourse was to the virtue of the bagpipe ; which the monster no sooner heard, than he took to the mountains with the same precipitation that he had come down. The poor piper could not so perfectly enjoy his deliverance, but that, with an angry look at parting, he shook his head, and said, " Ay ! are these your tricks ? — Had I known your humour, you should have had your music before supper.
Página 320 - ... the heavy rainfall of South Devon, which washed off and destroyed the young larvae. Mr. Barrett said that his experience had been the same, and that he put it down to the violence of the winds, which beat the insects from the trees. Mr. Blandford remarked that he had found Coleoptera abundant on the Braunton Burrows, near Barnstaple, but very scarce in other localities. Mr. Mason and others took part in the discussion which followed. Mr. Stevens further said that when at Exeter he visited the...
Página 89 - ... Parade, because he always attended regularly the military parades at the Tuileries. A taste for music was probably the cause of this fancy. He always stood by, and marched with the band ; and at night went to the Ope'ra...

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