Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volumen5John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832 |
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... Plants . By the Rev. J. S. Henslow , A. M. , King's Professor of Bo- tany in the University of Cambridge - 429 On the Dispersion and Distribution of Plants . By J. E. L GEOLOGY . 522 Volcanoes . By W. M. Higgins , Esq . F.G.S. , and ...
... Plants . By the Rev. J. S. Henslow , A. M. , King's Professor of Bo- tany in the University of Cambridge - 429 On the Dispersion and Distribution of Plants . By J. E. L GEOLOGY . 522 Volcanoes . By W. M. Higgins , Esq . F.G.S. , and ...
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... plants were alive on his arrival at the Botanic Garden ; and , in fact , were in a con- siderably better state than even many plants which we re- ceived from France and Great Britain : but we must in a great measure attribute this very ...
... plants were alive on his arrival at the Botanic Garden ; and , in fact , were in a con- siderably better state than even many plants which we re- ceived from France and Great Britain : but we must in a great measure attribute this very ...
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... plants to form a Brazilian herbarium , and also as many seeds and live plants as possible for the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburgh . The principal of the conditions of his engagement was , to have a certain share of the whole ...
... plants to form a Brazilian herbarium , and also as many seeds and live plants as possible for the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburgh . The principal of the conditions of his engagement was , to have a certain share of the whole ...
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... plants . By this means he ob- tained a considerable herbarium of his own ; and this , added to the collection which he made at his own expense in the province of Bahia , before he entered the service of Russia , gave him altogether a ...
... plants . By this means he ob- tained a considerable herbarium of his own ; and this , added to the collection which he made at his own expense in the province of Bahia , before he entered the service of Russia , gave him altogether a ...
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... plants , and prepare them for shipping . He is charged to send , by every opportunity , to St. Petersburgh , boxes of plants , herbariums , collections of different species of wood , seeds , & c .; but the main collection of the more ...
... plants , and prepare them for shipping . He is charged to send , by every opportunity , to St. Petersburgh , boxes of plants , herbariums , collections of different species of wood , seeds , & c .; but the main collection of the more ...
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Página 419 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 567 - Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 515 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 418 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 235 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 111 - Let vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Página 677 - Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclined, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.
Página 467 - Humming-bird entitles it to the first place in the list of the birds of the new world. It may truly be called the Bird of Paradise ; and had it existed in the old world, it would have claimed the title instead of the bird which has now the honour to bear it : — see it darting through the air almost as quick as thought ! — now it is within a yard of your...
Página 577 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Página 16 - Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...