The Quarterly Review, Volume 88John Murray, 1851 |
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... living world have more attractions . Life , more- over , and its manifold vestments and products are studied under various conditions and circumstances - in the field , in the farm , in the museum , in the dissecting - room . One man ...
... living world have more attractions . Life , more- over , and its manifold vestments and products are studied under various conditions and circumstances - in the field , in the farm , in the museum , in the dissecting - room . One man ...
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... living Nature . Calm and sedentary , in the close atmosphere of the cabinet he scrutinizes the dried and stuffed skins of birds and beasts , and the analogous exuviæ of other animals . If he be an ichthyologist , he counts the rays of ...
... living Nature . Calm and sedentary , in the close atmosphere of the cabinet he scrutinizes the dried and stuffed skins of birds and beasts , and the analogous exuviæ of other animals . If he be an ichthyologist , he counts the rays of ...
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... living animals by what is known of their anatomical structure , we have found his statements , with one unimportant exception , to stand that test ; and his very ignorance of the organization , which would suggest to the physiologist ...
... living animals by what is known of their anatomical structure , we have found his statements , with one unimportant exception , to stand that test ; and his very ignorance of the organization , which would suggest to the physiologist ...
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... living habits of the beautiful and un- conscious subjects of those Greek compounds , as they have been witnessed by our author on their own wooded hills and park - like plains . The first he fell in with was the Springbok ( Antilope ...
... living habits of the beautiful and un- conscious subjects of those Greek compounds , as they have been witnessed by our author on their own wooded hills and park - like plains . The first he fell in with was the Springbok ( Antilope ...
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... living creatures which the springboks ex- hibit on the greater migrations is utterly astounding . They have been well compared to the swarms of locusts . Like them they con- sume every green thing in their course , laying waste vast ...
... living creatures which the springboks ex- hibit on the greater migrations is utterly astounding . They have been well compared to the swarms of locusts . Like them they con- sume every green thing in their course , laying waste vast ...
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