The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's CalendarGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 416 pages |
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... cold , sunny or cloudy : we have , also information of the first tree in leaf , and even of the appearance of the first fungi , and of the plants first in blossom . We are told when masses vegetate , and when insects first appear and ...
... cold , sunny or cloudy : we have , also information of the first tree in leaf , and even of the appearance of the first fungi , and of the plants first in blossom . We are told when masses vegetate , and when insects first appear and ...
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... colds ; and among the rest myself also : some have eruptive fevers . It is hoped that this short sketch of an observant out- door naturalist , and true lover of nature , will not be found uninteresting . There is something so pleasing ...
... colds ; and among the rest myself also : some have eruptive fevers . It is hoped that this short sketch of an observant out- door naturalist , and true lover of nature , will not be found uninteresting . There is something so pleasing ...
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... cold in regular array " Succeed . " - Heav'n taught , so sang the Hebrew bard § A HARVEST SCENE . WAKED by the gentle gleamings of the morn , Soon clad , the reaper , provident of want , Hies cheerful - hearted to the ripen'd field ...
... cold in regular array " Succeed . " - Heav'n taught , so sang the Hebrew bard § A HARVEST SCENE . WAKED by the gentle gleamings of the morn , Soon clad , the reaper , provident of want , Hies cheerful - hearted to the ripen'd field ...
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... cold water instead of dusting , it would perish from the chill . The result of these observations is that there are certain impulses given to birds , independent of their early imitative propensities , which seem to pro- cced directly ...
... cold water instead of dusting , it would perish from the chill . The result of these observations is that there are certain impulses given to birds , independent of their early imitative propensities , which seem to pro- cced directly ...
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... cold nature was susceptible of ; but I feel quite assured that the toad is at all times perfectly harmless and inoffensive : the idea of its spitting , or otherwise discharging venom is , I am convinced , wholly unfounded . In the ...
... cold nature was susceptible of ; but I feel quite assured that the toad is at all times perfectly harmless and inoffensive : the idea of its spitting , or otherwise discharging venom is , I am convinced , wholly unfounded . In the ...
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