Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Words printed in i...
2. Part 2But why does the strawberry develop this large mass of apparently useless matter? Simply in order the better to ensure the dispersion of its small brown fruitlets. Birds are alw...
3. Part 3But as soon as the crowfoot finds itself above the level of the river, all the causes which made its leaf like those of other aquatic plants have ceased to operate. The new leav...
4. Part 4We have adopted an easy and slovenly way of dividing all rocks into primary, secondary, and tertiary, which veils from us the real chronological relations of evolving life in th...
5. Part 5Sweet juices and bright colours, however, could be of no use to a plant till there were eyes to see and tongues to taste them. A pulpy fruit is in itself a mere waste of product...
6. Part 6Trout always have a recognised home of their own, inhabited by a pretty fixed number of individuals. But if you catch the two sole denizens of a particular scour, you will find...
7. Part 7Common groundsel is also a case of the same kind; but here the degradation has not gone nearly so far. I venture to conjecture, therefore, that groundsel has been embarked for a...
8. Part 8The origin of nuts is thus exactly the reverse side of the origin of fruits. Certain seeds, richly stored with oils and starches for aiding the growth of the young plant, are ex...
9. Part 9The great families of the pheasants and partridges, in which the blackcock must be included, may be roughly divided into two main divisions so far as regards their appearance an...
10. Part 10"_Dr. Brewer has produced a wonderfully comprehensive dictionary of references to matters which are always cropping up in conversation and in everyday life, and writers generall...
11. Part 11~Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1881~, Price One Shilling, contains the First Chapters of a New Novel, entitled "THE COMET OF A SEASON," by JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P., Author of "...
12. Part 12~Miller's Physiology for the Young~; or, The House of Life: Human Physiology, with its Applications to the Preservation of Health. For use in Classes and Popular Reading. With n...
13. Part 13"_We are glad to see the Slang Dictionary reprinted and enlarged. From a high scientific point of view this book it not to be despised. Of course it cannot fail to be amusing al...