Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
I remember, when I was in Newfoundland, some five-and-twenty years ago, the disastrous wreck of the brig _Elizabeth_, which belonged to the firm in which I was a clerk. The master had made a good observation the day before, which had determined his latitude some miles north of...
Lo! the young plant is germinating before its connexion with the parent is severed. It is the singular habit of this tree, that its seeds are already in a growing condition, whi...
8. Part 8Another and more massive Palm appears, where a moment ago there was nothing but smooth ground and empty air. It is the Sugar Palm (_Saguerus saccharifer_), remarkable in its app...
11. Part 11In this pond at our feet there is an object worthy of a moment's observation, minute though it is, for it is only visible as a speck to the unassisted eye. On one of the whorl-f...
12. Part 12At length the thickening of the lips proceeded to such an extent as almost to conceal the spire, and to reduce the aperture to a narrow line, the edges of which were now thickly...
13. Part 13What a cavern! and all bristling with long black hair! Why it seems as if the hair grew on the wrong side of his head--on the inside instead of the outside!
7. Part 7Behold this specimen of _Plumularia_, a shrub-like zoophyte, comprising within its populous branches some twenty thousand polypes. Every individual cell, now inhabited by its te...
9. Part 9Here is the great _Euphorbia grandidens_ of Africa. Its stout trunk is marked with a number of holes, some four or five inches apart, arranged in perpendicular rows. In some cas...
10. Part 10Yonder goes a _Medusa_, pumping its way laboriously, yet not ineffectively, just beneath the surface of the clear wave. It is a great affair, nearly a foot in diameter. Have we,...
14. Part 14The head is clothed with luxuriant _hair_, composed of a multitude of individual fibres, each of which is an epidermic appendage, essentially similar to the nails. Every hair is...
2. Part 2Many upright and ardent cultivators of the young science felt that truth would be compromised by a persistence in those explanations which had hitherto passed current. The discr...
16. Part 16In the body of the female parent, as transparent as the clearest glass, the band-like ovary is seen floating in the visceral cavity, with several ova in various degrees of advan...
5. Part 5After the elevation of the mountain summits of Europe above the sea, and while the same causes were still in operation, deposits were being made in the narrow intervening seas o...
17. Part 17It is certain that, when the Omnipotent God proposed to create a given organism, the course of that organism was present to his idea, as an ever revolving circle, without beginn...
3. Part 3The author of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" propounds a theory of organic origin much more worthy of God, than that "mean view," which supposes Him "to come in o...
4. Part 4"To relate the various steps in the formation of a bed of coal, and the gradual superposition of one bed upon another, by which at length the whole group of the coal-measures wa...
6. Part 610. At length the species both of plants and animals grew,--not by alteration of their specific characters, but by replacement of species by species--more and more like what we...
18. Part 18Towards one side of the upper surface of the pretty Star-fish, _Cribella rosea_, (as in many other species of Star-fishes,) there is a curious little mark, known as the _madrepo...
19. Part 19[47] "One of the laminated formations [in Auvergne] may be said to furnish a chronometer for itself. It consists of sixty feet of siliceous and calcareous deposits, each as thin...
1. Part 1I remember, when I was in Newfoundland, some five-and-twenty years ago, the disastrous wreck of the brig _Elizabeth_, which belonged to the firm in which I was a clerk. The mast...