The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... insects , worms , and even fishes , there are many tribes that derive by far the greater portion of their increase from the mineral kingdom alone ; while even in man him- self , air , water , common salt , and lime , which last is ...
... insects , worms , and even fishes , there are many tribes that derive by far the greater portion of their increase from the mineral kingdom alone ; while even in man him- self , air , water , common salt , and lime , which last is ...
Página 88
... insect which has been found in the centre of a trunk , the animal having crept into an accidental cleft , and either died there naturally , or been arrested and imprisoned by the secretion of the matter of new inner bark while in the ...
... insect which has been found in the centre of a trunk , the animal having crept into an accidental cleft , and either died there naturally , or been arrested and imprisoned by the secretion of the matter of new inner bark while in the ...
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... insects on which they have fed , and which pass through them without injury ; and an occasional swell of the sea floats into the rising island a mixed mass of sand , shells , drifted sea - weed , skins of the casuarina , and shells of ...
... insects on which they have fed , and which pass through them without injury ; and an occasional swell of the sea floats into the rising island a mixed mass of sand , shells , drifted sea - weed , skins of the casuarina , and shells of ...
Página 93
... insects , and worms . Each of these classes he subdivides into orders ; of each of his orders he makes a distinct section for a multi- tude of kinds or genera ; and each of his kinds becomes a still more subor- dinate section for the ...
... insects , and worms . Each of these classes he subdivides into orders ; of each of his orders he makes a distinct section for a multi- tude of kinds or genera ; and each of his kinds becomes a still more subor- dinate section for the ...
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... insects . It is in one of its species , T. minimus , the least of the feathered tribes ; feeds , like insects , on the nectar of flowers alone , and like the bee or butterfly , collects it while on the wing , fluttering from flower to ...
... insects . It is in one of its species , T. minimus , the least of the feathered tribes ; feeds , like insects , on the nectar of flowers alone , and like the bee or butterfly , collects it while on the wing , fluttering from flower to ...
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action adverted already observed animals appears Aristotle birds blood body brain called capable carbonic acid character chiefly colour common consequence consists constitutes Cuvier degree denominated derived distinct doctrine earth Epicurus equally existence external senses fact faculty farther feeling fishes fluid former gastric juice genus glottis Greek happiness heart heat hence hippopotamus human hypothesis ideas important innate ideas insects instances instinct intelligence kind knowledge lacteals language larynx Lect lecture less Lucretius mankind manner material matter means mind Misor moral muscles nature never objects occasionally organs origin oxygen passions peculiar perfect perhaps perpetually petrifactions philosophers physiologists plants Plato possess present principle produced proof prove Pythagoras quadrupeds racters reason respect sensation solid soul species stomach substance supposed taste term theory thing tion traced tribes truth variety various vegetable ventriloquism whence whole words worms zoophytes