Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volume 9John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1836 - Natural history |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
Page 22
... beautiful contrivances of the Almighty Architect . Each seed ( of which there are five to each flower ) is enclosed in a capsule [ car- pel ] ( figs . 3 , 4 , 5. ) , at- tached by its upper ex- tremity to a tail , or awn , which ...
... beautiful contrivances of the Almighty Architect . Each seed ( of which there are five to each flower ) is enclosed in a capsule [ car- pel ] ( figs . 3 , 4 , 5. ) , at- tached by its upper ex- tremity to a tail , or awn , which ...
Page 24
... beautiful and interesting kind of phenomenon . At 9 P.M. the aurora was first seen by me , although some indications had been noticed more than an hour before . At this time the whole sky , from the N.E. point of the horizon to the s.w. ...
... beautiful and interesting kind of phenomenon . At 9 P.M. the aurora was first seen by me , although some indications had been noticed more than an hour before . At this time the whole sky , from the N.E. point of the horizon to the s.w. ...
Page 26
... beautiful phenomena of the aurora borealis having been displayed , with unusual splendour , on the evening of November 18. , and , in various parts of the country , excited more than ordinary attention , it may be interesting to some of ...
... beautiful phenomena of the aurora borealis having been displayed , with unusual splendour , on the evening of November 18. , and , in various parts of the country , excited more than ordinary attention , it may be interesting to some of ...
Page 28
... beautiful . The auroral light was sufficient to throw considerable , though indistinct , shadows of near objects on a whitened wall . About eleven P.M. no trace of the aurora remained , except a faint luminosity in the northern horizon ...
... beautiful . The auroral light was sufficient to throw considerable , though indistinct , shadows of near objects on a whitened wall . About eleven P.M. no trace of the aurora remained , except a faint luminosity in the northern horizon ...
Page 29
... beautiful playful lightning often wit- nessed on a clear summer's evening . A little before 9 P. M. columns of white light shot up from an immense arc , about 30 ° of altitude , which was stretched across the horizon from N.W. to N.N.E. ...
... beautiful playful lightning often wit- nessed on a clear summer's evening . A little before 9 P. M. columns of white light shot up from an immense arc , about 30 ° of altitude , which was stretched across the horizon from N.W. to N.N.E. ...
Contents
6 | |
14 | |
17 | |
23 | |
29 | |
36 | |
37 | |
46 | |
247 | |
264 | |
273 | |
281 | |
290 | |
305 | |
334 | |
343 | |
49 | |
52 | |
57 | |
72 | |
91 | |
97 | |
103 | |
108 | |
109 | |
154 | |
165 | |
166 | |
182 | |
198 | |
203 | |
220 | |
225 | |
243 | |
350 | |
353 | |
368 | |
376 | |
383 | |
390 | |
393 | |
409 | |
416 | |
425 | |
445 | |
486 | |
496 | |
531 | |
533 | |
554 | |
593 | |
612 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
animal appearance Astèrias aurora borealis Ballingdon Bangor beautiful beds Belfast Belfast Lough body botany Brit British British birds chalk CHARLES WATERTON clay clouds coast colour common contained cow bunting Dijon eggs elephant extended feathers figures Flora fossil garden genus geological gland grinder ground habits hatched head indigo bird insects instances interesting Ireland lake Leach Lenane limestone Linn Linnæus Lough Lough Corrib Ma'am Magazine magpie mastodon miles mountains Müll museum natural history naturalists nearly neighbourhood nest night Norfolk noticed observed occur Old Kent Road ornithology Oughterard papillæ peat plants plumage present published quadrupeds Quinary rain rare rays remains remarks river rocks Roundstone seen shells shore side song south-west species specimens spot strata surface Swainson tail tentacula tion tree VIII Waterton whole wind wood wood thrush young
Popular passages
Page 578 - The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage ; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it ; and it shall fall and not rise again.
Page 314 - This table and the accompanying remarks are the result of many years' actual observation ; the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the sun and moon in their several positions respecting the earth ; and will, by simple inspection, show the observer what kind of weather will most probably follow the entrance of the moon into any of her quarters, and that so near the truth as to be seldom or never found to fail.
Page 400 - They rise, they break, and to that sea return. Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole; One all-extending, all-preserving soul Connects each being, greatest with the least; Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast; All served, all serving: nothing stands alone: The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.
Page 447 - A NATURAL SYSTEM OF BOTANY; or, a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution of the whole Vegetable Kingdom : together with the Uses of the most important Species in Medicine, the Arts, &c.
Page 399 - Look round our world ; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place, Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace. See matter next, with various life endued, Press to one centre still, the general good.
Page 3 - Though I am not aware that there are any minutes in the zoological archives of this country, which point out to us the precise time at which this insatiate and mischievous little brute first appeared among us, still there is a tradition current in this part of the country, that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores.
Page 52 - A MANUAL of BRITISH VERTEBRATE ANIMALS, Or, Descriptions of all the Animals belonging to the classes Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, and Pisces, which have been hitherto observed in the British Islands : including the domesticated, naturalized, and extirpated species : the whole systematically arranged. By the Rev. LEONARD JENYNS, MA Fellow of the Linnean, Zoological, and Entomological Societies of London ; and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Page 399 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Formed and impelled its neighbour to embrace.
Page 4 - ... that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the first order of field naturalists, was always positive on this point ; and he maintained firmly, that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration from Germany to England.
Page 200 - And shivery leaf-sounds of the solitude, The spirit wakes to worship, and is made Thy living temple. By the breath of flowers, Thou callest us, from city throngs and cares, Back to the woods, the birds, the mountain streams, That sing of Thee ! back to free childhood's heart, Fresh with the dews of tenderness! — Thou bidd'st The lilies of the field...