Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . as though thewounded wing had suddenly failed him, and thusprevented his preserving a~due equilibrium in thewater. At length he came to the top, when heimmediately righted and swam as at other times;every time I tried to lay hold on him he againducked and dived down to the bottom, at first allright, and then the tumbling began again. Whencaptured at length, I found him merely was enabled to confirm these observations severaltimes that day, as I obtained seven specimens, fiv
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . as though thewounded wing had suddenly failed him, and thusprevented his preserving a~due equilibrium in thewater. At length he came to the top, when heimmediately righted and swam as at other times;every time I tried to lay hold on him he againducked and dived down to the bottom, at first allright, and then the tumbling began again. Whencaptured at length, I found him merely was enabled to confirm these observations severaltimes that day, as I obtained seven specimens, fiveof which necessitated a watery chase before Isucceeded in catching them, and one got clear off. Sett. 1,1SGG.] IIARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 207 INSECT VIVARIUM. I REALLY must indulge iu a little gossip about au?*- insect home which my husband, anxious to gra-tify my naturalist propensities, had constructed forme about two years since. The accompanying sketchwill give some slight indea of our Insect Vivarium,which, besides being a really pretty object in thedrawing-room, is admirably suited for all the re-. Fig. 202. Insect Vivarium, quirements of its inhabitants, and is so simple inform, that an ordinary tinman can make up one at
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