Bees, Silkworms &cWard, Lock, and Company, 1868 - 128 pagina's |
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Aculeatum animals antennæ appearance aquaria aquarium bee's bi-pinnate Bladder Fern botanical names branches British ferns broad carp cell cocoons colour common carp Common Hart's Tongue common soil crab creature curious dark delicate edge eggs England fernery Filmy Fern flowers fronds glass gold fish green grow grown Hard Fern hive honey inches in length indented indusia insect Lady Fern larvæ Lastrea leaf leaflets leaves Limestone Polypody live lobed Maiden Hair main stem margin Marsh Fern midrib moisture observed oxygen pair peat pinnæ pinnate pinnatifid pinnules placed plants Polypodium Polypody pots Prussian carp queen bee requires shade resemble rhizome rocks rockwork roots rough royal says Scotland sea-weed shape SHIELD FERN Aspidium side silk silkworms sori species Spleenwort SPLEENWORT Asplenium spring stickleback sting stipes straw stung surface tail tank thick thrive titmouse Trichomanes varieties vase vegetable vessel walls Wardian water-plants Woodsia worker worms
Populaire passages
Pagina 706 - The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king * and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Pagina 786 - ... and caused a growth of mucus, or green slimy matter, on the surface of the water and on the sides of the receiver. If this...
Pagina 706 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly...
Pagina 778 - ... any fish, except a few Eels, yet nearly two hundred brace of Tench of all sizes, and as many Perch, were found. After the pond was thought to be quite free, under some roots there seemed to be an animal which was conjectured to be an otter ; the place was surrounded, and on opening an entrance among the roots, a Tench was found of most singular form, having literally assumed the shape of the hole, in which he had of course for many years been confined.
Pagina 796 - ... had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare.
Pagina 780 - The miller's ear is constantly directed to the note made by the running-stone in its circular course over the bed-stone, the exact parallelism of their two surfaces, indicated by a particular sound, being a matter of the first consequence ; and his hand is as constantly placed under the meal-spout, to ascertain by actual contact the character and qualities of the meal produced. The thumb, by a particular movement, spreads the sample over the fingers ; the thumb is the gauge of the value of the produce,...
Pagina 715 - ... times against the hive, telling the inmates, at the same time, that their master or mistress, &c. (as the case may be) is dead ! Mr.
Pagina 720 - ... remember !), so grouped together that the large terminal lenses present an extensive convex surface, whilst, in consequence of the decreasing diameter of the instruments, their narrow ends meet and form a smaller concentric curve. Now, if you can imagine it possible to look through all these telescopes at one glance, obtaining a similar effect to that of the stereoscope, you will be able to form some conception of what is probably the operation of vision in the Bee.
Pagina 796 - These are furnished with spicula or minute spears, by which it is probable that not only are wounds inflicted, but poison is also conveyed into them. The sensations produced by the touch of the tentacula appear to be very different in the case of different persons, from...
Pagina 725 - I perceived the veil was of no farther service, she gave me leave to remove it; this done, a most affecting spectacle presented itself to the view of all the company, filling me with the deepest distress and concern, as I thought myself the unhappy instrument of drawing her into so imminent hazard of her life.