Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volumen3Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1839 |
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Página 417 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Página 67 - These were enlarged and sequestra, from half an inch to an inch and a half in length, were removed.
Página 107 - ... of similar classes of crystals, can only be referred to the will and pleasure of the First Great Cause, whose works, even the most minute and evanescent, and in regions the most remote from human observation, are altogether admirable.
Página 143 - Descriptions of new species of Curculionites of North America, with Observations on some of the species already known.
Página 221 - in consideration of his being a great original discoverer in English geology, and especially for his being the first in this country to discover and to teach the identification of strata, and to determine their succession by means of their imbedded fossils.
Página 221 - If, in the pride of our present strength, we were disposed to forget our origin, our very speech would bewray us ; for we use the language which he taught us in the infancy of our science. If we, by our united efforts, are...
Página 407 - I wait for the tardy and rebellious villains to come to my assistance, making the air ring, and my throat tingle, with reiterated shouts — not a soul appeared ; and in a few minutes, the giraffe having recovered his wind, and being only slightly wounded...
Página 405 - I had shot a hartebeeste for the savages, when an object, which had repeatedly attracted my eye, but which I had as often persuaded myself was nothing more than the branchless stump of some withered tree, suddenly shifted its position, and the next moment I distinctly perceived that singular form of which the apparition had ofttimes visited my slumbers, but upon whose reality I now gazed for the first time.
Página 228 - ... unexplored portion of our land. The newspapers from the west contain frequent details of these migrations ; they appear to have been more frequent in former years than at the present time. The farmers in the western wilds regard them with sensations which may be compared to the anxious apprehensions of the eastern nations at the flight of the devouring locust.
Página 230 - Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 109. 4-2. On a new species of Lamia from the vicinity of the Swan River, New Holland.— Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, III. p. 230. 43. On the species of Cincindela and Elaphrus mentioned in Olivier — Mag.