History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted September 22, 1831, Volume 6[publisher not identified], printed for the club by Martin's Printing Works, Spittal, 1872 Contains it's Proceedings. |
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... wood , were much admired . They then returned together by a short cut to Castleton , not , however , before they were overtaken by a heavy shower , which brought cloaks and umbrellas into requisition . The glen of the Tweeden offers ...
... wood , were much admired . They then returned together by a short cut to Castleton , not , however , before they were overtaken by a heavy shower , which brought cloaks and umbrellas into requisition . The glen of the Tweeden offers ...
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... wood sufficient ( and as straw is very scarce in the North ) , nor do they understand thatching so well as in the South . " In an answer to a query about the state of the mansion , it is shortly stated that " The Old Hall is too ruinous ...
... wood sufficient ( and as straw is very scarce in the North ) , nor do they understand thatching so well as in the South . " In an answer to a query about the state of the mansion , it is shortly stated that " The Old Hall is too ruinous ...
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... wood it seems to be more plentiful than in any other station I am acquainted with . After a long walk in the woods ... wood due south of the farm - house of Lightfield . In the bogs to the north of the farm - house and along the sides of ...
... wood it seems to be more plentiful than in any other station I am acquainted with . After a long walk in the woods ... wood due south of the farm - house of Lightfield . In the bogs to the north of the farm - house and along the sides of ...
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... Wood estate . It is a rare plant , apparently confined to the counties of Kent . , Essex , Suffolk , Norfolk , and Cambridge . Of VALERIANELLA ERIOCARPA , Desv . , I found a solitary specimen in the bed of the Gala a little below ...
... Wood estate . It is a rare plant , apparently confined to the counties of Kent . , Essex , Suffolk , Norfolk , and Cambridge . Of VALERIANELLA ERIOCARPA , Desv . , I found a solitary specimen in the bed of the Gala a little below ...
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... Wood Argus , frequent in woods on the Ale ; Grayling , Ringlet , Meadow Brown , and Heath , copiously . In August I noted a new fact about the food of Steropus madidus , a beetle reckoned pre - eminently carnivorous . But on this ...
... Wood Argus , frequent in woods on the Ale ; Grayling , Ringlet , Meadow Brown , and Heath , copiously . In August I noted a new fact about the food of Steropus madidus , a beetle reckoned pre - eminently carnivorous . But on this ...
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Page 120 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 230 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ? Out upon time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 245 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Page 150 - ... gave them title to prescribe against their lords; and, on performance of the same services, to hold their lands, in spite of any determination of the lord's will; for though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord...
Page 245 - There is one thing that seems to prove this beyond the possibility of a doubt. In the old Runic Fasti, as will be shown elsewhere, a wheel was used to denote the festival of Christmas.
Page 250 - Although noticed by me in Devon, certainly for forty years at the least (since we used its galls for marbles, when I was quite a child), yet it did not reach Birmingham until 1860, when it was first noticed by me in the town— a fact not to be wondered at, considering how often its galls were brought from the south by tourists. It was not, however, until the autumn of 1866 that it was first seen by me invading Birmingham, .along the hedges on Worcestershire side. The two streams have since met,...
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Page 61 - May 15. — A fire broke out in Rock hall, near Alnwick, formerly the seat of Proctor, esq., but at that time tenanted by some farmers, by which it was entirely consumed, and some of the families escaped with their lives so narrowly, that they saved nothing but the shirts upon their backs.
Page 150 - For though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor ; which customs...
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