Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . s fire. We have certainly one consolingthought as we shut the door upon the chaotic heapsand piles, and inextricable confusion of smashedglass, twisted iron, broken columns, masses ofmasonry, and fragments from Moorish, Assyrian,and Byzantine structures, mixed with, and half-buried in, the dust and debris of a miniature tropicalforest:—no human being perished in the blazing pile. J. K. Lord, ON THE EXAMINATION OF MELICERTAWITH HIGH POWERS. MY attention was drawn to these inte
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . s fire. We have certainly one consolingthought as we shut the door upon the chaotic heapsand piles, and inextricable confusion of smashedglass, twisted iron, broken columns, masses ofmasonry, and fragments from Moorish, Assyrian,and Byzantine structures, mixed with, and half-buried in, the dust and debris of a miniature tropicalforest:—no human being perished in the blazing pile. J. K. Lord, ON THE EXAMINATION OF MELICERTAWITH HIGH POWERS. MY attention was drawn to these interestingobjects for the microscope by finding, inOctober last, a colony of them on some weed, takenfrom a pond in the Hampstead Fields, near theSwiss Cottage. A bath, 3 inches by 2, and £ inchwide, was constructed for their accommodation, andplaced on a shelf in the window, in front of abinocular, provided with a 1-inch power. Theintention was to watch their reproduction; butthough they increased rapidly, and the commence-ment of the tube was frequently seen, in otherrespects this effort was Fig. 26. Melicerta ringens. Front View of the Disc. A fine specimen very near the front glass formedan inducement to try a T4o, but it proved just beyondthe focus; so a smaller bath was made, having afront of thin microscopic glass, and a space ofabout i of an inch between the slides.
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