The Cambridge Natural History, Том 2Sir Arthur Everett Shipley Macmillan and Company, limited, 1895 |
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The Cambridge Natural History, Том 2 Sidney Frederic Harmer,Sir Arthur Everett Shipley Повний перегляд - 1896 |
The Cambridge Natural History, Том 6 Sidney Frederic Harmer,Sir Arthur Everett Shipley Повний перегляд - 1901 |
The Cambridge Natural History, Том 5 Sidney Frederic Harmer,Sir Arthur Everett Shipley Повний перегляд - 1895 |
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Сторінка 535 - Crown 8vo. y.6d. (Nature Series.) Balfour. — A TREATISE ON COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY. By FM BALFOUR, MA, FRS, Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. With Illustrations. Second Edition, reprinted without alteration from the First Edition.
Сторінка 535 - Mammals," all the contributors are connected with that University. " 'The Cambridge Natural History' is intended," the publishers announce, " in the first instance for those who have not had any special scientific training, and who are not necessarily acquainted with scientific language. At the same time an attempt is made not only to combine popular treatment with the latest results of modern scientific research, but to make the volumes useful to those who may be regarded as serious students in...
Сторінка 48 - It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction.
Сторінка 252 - Hueation of the surface of nacre is due to the disposition of a single membranous layer in folds or plaits, which lie more or less obliquely to the general surface.
Сторінка 147 - Observations on the development of the pond-snail (Lymnaeus stagnalis), and on the early stages of other Mollusca: Quart. Journ.
Сторінка 72 - Lamellaria perspicua is not uncommon round the south end of the Isle of Man, and is frequently found under the circumstances described by Giard ; but I met lately with such a marked case on the shore near the Biological Station at Port Erin, that it seems worthy of being placed on record. The mollusc was on a colony of Leptoclinum maculatum, in which it had eaten a large hole. It lay in this cavity so as to be flush with the general surface ; and its dorsal integument was not only whitish with small...
Сторінка 535 - Prosector to the Zoological Society of London and Lecturer on Biology at Guy's Hospital.
Сторінка 169 - ... probably destroyed by the boiling water, as suggested by Parkin, to whose work Dr. Weber does not refer, although in this part of the subject it had covered the same ground. Parkin reported as follows: Several latices, which are pure white when they first issue from a wound on the plant, rapidly darken on exposure to the air. This is due to the presence of an oxydizing ferment, or oxydase, which with the aid of the oxygen of the air acts on some constituent of the latex, changing it to a deep...