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alæ anfractibus animal antennæ ants aperture appears appendage belong birds body Brachiopods branchial British carapace caudæ cavity cells central characters cilia Cloudy A.M. colour convex Crustacea Cuvier Decapoda deduplication described developed distinct dorsal Dront edge eggs Entomostraca Euglena exhibit existence extremity female figure filament fossil frustules furnished gemmules genera genus germinal vesicle gland globular vesicles gonidia granules gravel head Hist inch insects internode lamina latter left valve length Leperditia margin maxillæ membrane micropyle Mollusca mucus mucus-layer Museum naturalists nearly nest nigris Nitella Nord nucleus nullipora obscurum observed operculum organs ovum peculiar peristomate Permian PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER phyllaries plant plate pollen-tube portion posterior present probably Prof rain P.M. remarkable resemblance sand Scissurella seen segments shell side species specimens spermatozoids spines Spirogyra sponges spore structure surface tail teeth Testa tubercle upper vessels young
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Page 385 - ... noise very similar to that which is made by the adult animal. If no one was in the house, or its cries were not attended to, it would be quiet after a little while, but the moment it heard a footstep would begin again harder than ever.
Page 474 - Cuvier's hypothesis ; and the discussion, which has much interest as bearing on paleontology, has been recently revived under a somewhat modified form : Professors Huxley and Owen being respectively the assailant and defender of the hypothesis. Cuvier says — "Comparative anatomy possesses a principle whose just development is sufficient to dissipate all difficulties; it is that of the correlation of forms in organized beings, by means of which every kind of organized being might, strictly speaking,...
Page 475 - In a word, the formation of the tooth bespeaks the structure of the articulation of the jaw; that of the scapula, that of the claws; just as the equation of a curve involves all its properties; and, in taking each property separately as the basis of a particular equation, we should find again both the ordinary equation, and all the other certain properties...
Page 384 - I made a short ladder of three or four rounds, on which I put it to hang for a quarter of an hour at a time. At first it seemed much pleased, but it could not get all four hands in a comfortable position, and, after changing about several times, would leave hold of one hand after the other, and drop on to the floor. Sometimes when hanging only by two hands, it would loose one, and cross it to the opposite...
Page 503 - GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, AND MANUAL OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Page 475 - the claw, the scapula, the condyle, the femur, and all the other bones, taken separately, will give the tooth or one another ; and by commencing with any one, he who had a rational conception of the laws of the organic economy could reconstruct the whole animal.
Page 385 - A week or two afterwards it was again taken ill, and this time more seriously. The symptoms were exactly those of intermittent fever, accompanied by watery swellings on the feet and head. It lost all appetite for its food, and, after lingering for a week a most pitiable object, died, after being in my possession nearly three months. I much regretted the loss of my little pet, -which I had at one time looked forward to bringing up to years of maturity, and taking home to England. For several months...
Page 384 - The poor little thing would lick its lips, draw in its cheeks, and turn up its eyes with an expression of the most supreme satisfaction when it had a mouthful particularly to its taste. On the other hand, when its food was not sufficiently sweet or palatable, it would turn the mouthful about with its tongue for a moment as if trying to extract what flavor there was, and then push it all out between its lips.
Page 384 - ... to guide its fingers to any definite object ; and when dissatisfied, opening wide its almost toothless mouth, and expressing its wants by a most infantine scream. The little monkey, on the other hand, in constant motion ; running and jumping about wherever it pleased, examining everything around it, seizing hold of the smallest objects with the greatest precision, balancing itself on the edge of the box or running up a post, and helping itself to anything eatable that came in its way.