Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh: For the Promotion of Zoology and Other Branches of Natural History, 2. kötetRoyal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 1863 |
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... feet long , and 5 feet 6 inches in circumference where thickest . 2. Portbeagle Shark , 7 feet 3 inches long , and 4 feet in circumference . 3. Great Sun - fish , 5 feet 2 inches long , and 2 feet 8 inches deep . 4. Conger Eel , 6 feet ...
... feet long , and 5 feet 6 inches in circumference where thickest . 2. Portbeagle Shark , 7 feet 3 inches long , and 4 feet in circumference . 3. Great Sun - fish , 5 feet 2 inches long , and 2 feet 8 inches deep . 4. Conger Eel , 6 feet ...
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... feet in clearing away the snow from its food , as much as the Lap- land species does ; and the cup - shaped structure of its feet , as shown in the specimens now sent home , is admirably adapted for this . That it does not use the ...
... feet in clearing away the snow from its food , as much as the Lap- land species does ; and the cup - shaped structure of its feet , as shown in the specimens now sent home , is admirably adapted for this . That it does not use the ...
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... tomical assistance . On examining its external peculiarities we find that its fore paws and feet are short and comparatively small and weak , and not provided with a web 22 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society .
... tomical assistance . On examining its external peculiarities we find that its fore paws and feet are short and comparatively small and weak , and not provided with a web 22 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society .
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... feet . The hind feet and legs are enormously strong , the fingers united by a strong broad web , the claws excessively developed , and each in the form of a strong gouge . The combination of machinery in the fore and hind legs and feet ...
... feet . The hind feet and legs are enormously strong , the fingers united by a strong broad web , the claws excessively developed , and each in the form of a strong gouge . The combination of machinery in the fore and hind legs and feet ...
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... feet 10 inches high , the male reaching the height of 4 feet from the top of the head to the sole of the heel in a straight line . You are aware these creatures have been frequently described as reaching a much higher stature ( it was ...
... feet 10 inches high , the male reaching the height of 4 feet from the top of the head to the sole of the heel in a straight line . You are aware these creatures have been frequently described as reaching a much higher stature ( it was ...
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Angwántibo animal appearance Atractylis belonged bird body boulder clay British Bryson Canada goose cells character clay coast Coleoptera colour common corallum Coryne crania cranium deposit described distinct dorsal Dr M'Bain Dr Smith ectoderm Edinburgh entomologists ethmoid Eudendrium examined exhibited extremity feet Firth fish foramen fossil genera genus Gmel Hudson's Bay inches in length John JOHN ALEXANDER SMITH Lagotia Lake Station larvæ Linn lobules male margin mass membrane Moose Factory Murray muscle Museum Natural History naturalists notice observed Old Calabar orbital Perodicticus Plate plumage polyp polypary portion posterior Potto present rare reproductive resemblance rounded sandstone Scotland seen sent Severn House shells side skull Society species specimen sphenoidal spongy bones spines STRETHILL WRIGHT structure surface tail teeth tentacles thread-cells tion transverse Trout Lake Trout Lake Station tubercle upper vertebra vomer young zoophyte
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195. oldal - By ALEX. BRYSON, Esq. (Specimens were exhibited.) 2. Observations on British Zoophytes. By T. STRETHILL WRIGHT, MD The author stated that, in the summer of 1858, he took, by dipping, a great number of medusae of the genus Thaumantias, off Granton Pier. To the peduncle of one of these was attached a small actinia, about half an inch in length, and one-eighth of an inch in diameter. From its general appearance, he considered it to be a young specimen of Actinia troglodytes, which had been seized by...
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306. oldal - ... a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity, the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
378. oldal - Polypary branched, spirally twisted. Polyps pale orange, with two rows of tentacles. The lower row from 4 to 12, the upper row from 2 to 8 capitate.
34. oldal - The gemmule (says he) having adhered to the glass, grows out into a lengthened form, variously knotted and swollen, and frequently dividing into two branches, the whole adhering closely to the glass. After a day or two's growth in this manner, a perpendicular stem begins to shoot from some point of this creeping root, and soon separates into four straight, slender, slightly divergent tentacles, which shoot to a considerable length. The little creature is now a polyp of four tentacles." At this stage...