 | 1835 - 542 pages
...adult bird, fifteen days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest...gradually more faint, till it entirely disappeared. — KOGKT. 54 A VOYAGE ROtJMD THE WORLD. |'.M i;i TM of eternity, 1 " '"-panning endless sea ! Let... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 568 pages
...adult bird, fifteen days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest...to the length of time the animal had been fed upon the madder. When this diet was discontinued, the colour became gradually more faint, till it entirely... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 532 pages
...in the adult bird 15 days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest...remote from the heart, the tinge was fainter. The bone «as of a deeper dye in proportion to the length of time the animal was fed upon the madder. When this... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1835 - 522 pages
...in the adult bird 15 days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest...remote from the heart, the tinge was fainter. The bone «as of a deeper dye in proportion to the length of time the animal was fed upon the madder. When this... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pages
...intense in the solid parts of those Wn which were nearest to the centre of circulation, while in lones of equal solidity, but more remote from the heart...the tinge was fainter. The bone was of a deeper dye ra proportion to the length of time the animal bad I"*11.1™ ipon madder. When this diet was discontinued,... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1836 - 442 pages
...adult bird, fifteen days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest...to the length of time the animal had been fed upon the madder. When this diet was discontinued, the colour became gradually more faint, till it entirely... | |
 | 1836 - 562 pages
...the adult bird fifteen days were required merely to produce the rose colour. The dye was more intense in the solid parts of those bones which were nearest...to the length of time the animal had been fed upon the madder. When this diet had been discontinued the colour became gradually more faint till it entirely... | |
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... animals than to those which had already attained their full size. Thus the bones of a young pigeon were tinged of a rose colour in twenty-four hours, and of a deep scarlet in three days ; while in the adult bird, fifteen days were required merely... 