Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 20West, Newman, 1862 - English periodicals |
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Page 7826 - To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy bowers, Thou thy Creator's goodness dost declare, And what dear gifts on thee he did not spare, A stain to human sense in sin that lowers. What soul can be so sick, which by thy songs, Attired in sweetness, sweetly is not driven Quite to forget earth's turmoils, spites, and wrongs, And lift a reverend eye and thought to heaven ? Sweet artless songster, thou my mind dost raise To airs of spheres, yes, and to angels
Page 8132 - Nothing could be more simple, cordial, and unpretending than the encouragement which he afforded to all young naturalists. I soon became intimate with him, for he had a remarkable power of making the young feel completely at ease with him, though we were all awestruck with the amount of his knowledge. Before I saw him, I heard one young man sum up his attainments by simply saying that he knew ever) thing.
Page 8161 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Page 8150 - While I was busied in drawing and cutting the figures of animals, and also in designing and engraving the vignettes, Mr. Beilby, being of a bookish or reading turn, proposed, in his evenings at home, to write or compile the descriptions. With this I had little more to do than furnishing him, in many conversations and memoranda, with what I knew of animals, and blotting out, in his manuscript, what was not truth.
Page 8132 - It always struck me that his mind could not be well touched by any paltry feeling of envy, vanity, or jealousy. With all this equability of temper, and remarkable benevolence, there was no insipidity of character. A man must have been blind not to have perceived that beneath this placid exterior there was a vigorous and determined will. When principle came into play, no power on earth could have turned him...
Page 8254 - He would therefore put that problem in another way. The question was partly one of facts, and partly one of reasoning. The question of fact was, What are the structural differences between man and the highest apes ? — the question of reasoning, What is the systematic value of those differences? Several years ago...
Page 7993 - ... gone through, after which it is stretched and dried, and then smoked over a fire of rotten wood, which imparts a lively yellow colour to it. The article is then ready for service. Of parchment, as such, the Chipewyans make little use, but the residents avail themselves of it, in place of glass for windows, for constructing the sides of dog-carrioles, and for making glue.
Page 7973 - After the old queen has conducted the first swarm from the hive, the remaining bees take particular care of the royal cells, and prevent the young queens successively hatched, from leaving them, unless at an interval of several days between each.
Page 8254 - Muller, and that this had been ignored in this discussion, was little creditable to British science. This analysis of the brain's structure had established as differentive between man and the ape four great differences — two morphological, two quantitative. The two quantitative are the great absolute weight and the great height of the human brain ; the two morphological, the multifidity of the frontal lobes corresponding to the forehead, usually, popularly, and, as this analysis shows, correctly,...
Page 8254 - Hardly any part of the bodily frame, then, could be found better calculated to illustrate the truth that the structural differences between Man and the highest Ape are of less value than those between the highest and the lower Apes...