The Wombat: 1895-1902, Τόμοι 1-51902 |
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... known to cover a space of 25 feet in one spring . When the females have good - sized young , or joeys in their pouch , and are hard pressed , they throw the young ones out so as to give themselves greater freedom . When feeding , their ...
... known to cover a space of 25 feet in one spring . When the females have good - sized young , or joeys in their pouch , and are hard pressed , they throw the young ones out so as to give themselves greater freedom . When feeding , their ...
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... known to cabinet makers . A variety of this found in Gippsland , and known as 66 Fiddleback , " is perhaps our most handsome wood . The grain requires a lot of filling in polishing , but amply repays for the trouble . J. HAMMERTON & SON ...
... known to cabinet makers . A variety of this found in Gippsland , and known as 66 Fiddleback , " is perhaps our most handsome wood . The grain requires a lot of filling in polishing , but amply repays for the trouble . J. HAMMERTON & SON ...
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... known . Some of the curly specimens of grain are very handsome , and furnish small articles of turnery . Very fair tobacco pipes . ( 12 ) ( Bursaria spinosa ) . Grows along creeks ; shrubby ; 4-5 in . dm . Very close in grain ; cuts ...
... known . Some of the curly specimens of grain are very handsome , and furnish small articles of turnery . Very fair tobacco pipes . ( 12 ) ( Bursaria spinosa ) . Grows along creeks ; shrubby ; 4-5 in . dm . Very close in grain ; cuts ...
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... known locally as " Gentle Annie , " is a spur of the well - known " Burst - my - gall , " on the old track . It is about two miles long , and there is a drop , as measured by the aneroid , of 700 feet in the first half mile . The total ...
... known locally as " Gentle Annie , " is a spur of the well - known " Burst - my - gall , " on the old track . It is about two miles long , and there is a drop , as measured by the aneroid , of 700 feet in the first half mile . The total ...
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... known as the " Witch's Head , " and the lower two as " The Artillery Rocks , " while the whole group goes by the name of the " Amazon Battery . " We are informed that the first - named rock has been lately destroyed by the action of the ...
... known as the " Witch's Head , " and the lower two as " The Artillery Rocks , " while the whole group goes by the name of the " Amazon Battery . " We are informed that the first - named rock has been lately destroyed by the action of the ...
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A. E. Bratley Agents Amateur Apollo Bay artistic Australian Ballarat Barwon Barwon Heads bath Bendigo birds breeding Brinsmead bromide C. O. Dentry camera cement CHAFF CUTTING Chemist chloride Class Club COFFEE PALACE colony colour CYCLES district eggs Exhibition First-class G. H. Brinsmead Gardens GEELONG WEST gold Gordon College Gordon Technical College H. G. Roebuck Hammerton honey-eaters hypo insects Inspection Invited Insurance J. B. Leitch Kerang larvæ lime Maker MALOP ST Maskell MCPHILLIMY BROS Melbourne MERCER ST Merchants Messrs molecule MOORABOOL ST MOORABOOL STREET Museum natural history Naturalists nest noted observations paper Photo Photographic Association picture plates PRICES PROMPTLY ATTENDED Purnell Queenscliff RYRIE ST RYRIE STREET S. R. J. MAWSON scrub Secretary silver slides Society SOUTH GEELONG SPECIALTY species specimens STICTA PULMONARIA Stock Swanston Street TELEPHONE THACKER Thetaz toning tree Victoria Wadelton Wine Wombat Wrought and Cast YARRA STS
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Σελίδα 4 - The Summer came, and all the birds were dead; The days were like hot coals ; the very ground Was burned to ashes; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled , and found No foe to check their march, till they had made The land a desert without leaf or shade.
Σελίδα 37 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Σελίδα 74 - ... selected, would probably be welcome guests at the houses of some of those interested in the museum in each place. The effect at the country museums would be that three times in the year a visitant would arrive for one of the three sections, would work everything up to date, stir the local interests by advice and a lecture, stimulate the caretaker, and arrange routine work that could be carried out before the next year's visit, and yet would not cost more than having down three lecturers for the...
Σελίδα 74 - The duties of such a staff would be to arrange and label the new specimens acquired in the past year, taking sometimes a day, or perhaps a fortnight, at one place ; to advise on alterations and improvements ; to recommend purchases required to fill up gaps ; to note duplicates and promote exchanges between museums ; and to deliver a lecture on the principal novelties of their own subject in the past year. Such visitants, if well selected, would probably be welcome guests at the houses of some of...
Σελίδα 74 - ... museums, all of which endeavour to keep up to the mark by spending perhaps 30/. to 200?. a year on a curator. The practical course would seem to be their union, in providing a federal staff, to circulate for all purposes requiring skilled knowledge ; leaving the permanent attention to each place to devolve on a mere caretaker.
Σελίδα 22 - ... history ; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor...
Σελίδα 22 - ... the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting— I speak from experience -does the study of natural history become!
Σελίδα 46 - ... whatever upon the plate. In exemplifying further the importance of distinguishing between visual and actinic rays of light, we may observe that if the two were in all respects the same, Photography must cease to exist as an Art. It would be impossible to make use of the more sensitive chemical preparations, from the difficulties which would attend the previous preparation and subsequent development of the plates. These operations are now conducted in what is termed a dark room; but it is dark...
Σελίδα 29 - Committee desires to place on record its appreciation of the valuable services rendered...
Σελίδα 22 - It has often been vaguely asserted that plants are distinguished from animals by not having the power / of movement. It should rather be said that plants acquire and display this power only when it is of some advantage to them...