Popular Science Monthly, Bind 76McClure, Phillips and Company, 1910 |
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Side 401
... Bird Key ; but suddenly on a day late in April or early in May a cloud of sea - gulls gathers from far and near , and soon more than 25,000 birds are screaming over the is- land , struggling for nesting space . Undeterred by the ...
... Bird Key ; but suddenly on a day late in April or early in May a cloud of sea - gulls gathers from far and near , and soon more than 25,000 birds are screaming over the is- land , struggling for nesting space . Undeterred by the ...
Side 402
... bird to lose all shyness , and it sits upon the egg as if it were its own . Both male and female cooperate to build the nest , but the male alone procures food for both during this period , the ... BIRD KEY ,. 402 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
... bird to lose all shyness , and it sits upon the egg as if it were its own . Both male and female cooperate to build the nest , but the male alone procures food for both during this period , the ... BIRD KEY ,. 402 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
Side 403
... bird . Professor Watson caused adult birds to be taken from Bird Key to Havana , 92 miles ; to Key West , 66 miles , and to Cape Hatteras 850 miles from Bird Key . Birds liberated at these places returned in a very short time to their nests ...
... bird . Professor Watson caused adult birds to be taken from Bird Key to Havana , 92 miles ; to Key West , 66 miles , and to Cape Hatteras 850 miles from Bird Key . Birds liberated at these places returned in a very short time to their nests ...
Side 547
... key order . Each acts as a stimulus to the other , and the reward of satisfaction to the child is no greater than that of pleasure to the parent . The co- ordinated instinctive responses of the young begin in many of the precocious birds ...
... key order . Each acts as a stimulus to the other , and the reward of satisfaction to the child is no greater than that of pleasure to the parent . The co- ordinated instinctive responses of the young begin in many of the precocious birds ...
Side 567
... key - note of the tale . The youth by magic assumes various forms — a humming - bird , a bit of floating down , a ... birds that one finds so often in the tales of American aborigines . Many of these tales , in fact , belong to that ...
... key - note of the tale . The youth by magic assumes various forms — a humming - bird , a bit of floating down , a ... birds that one finds so often in the tales of American aborigines . Many of these tales , in fact , belong to that ...
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Side 499 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things'; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Side 270 - All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them...
Side 240 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Side 41 - I probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. I have altered the fifth edition of the Origin so as to confine my remarks to adaptive changes of structure.
Side 241 - There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble bush, and scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, with all his might and main, He jumped into another bush, and scratched them in again.
Side 106 - Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions. Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Side 106 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Side 192 - Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
Side 41 - I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear to be, as far as we can judge, neither beneficial nor injurious ; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
Side 106 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?