Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . led three holes. Through these holes passrespectively the three glass tubes, a, b, and c; thelatter reaching nearly to the bottom, the other twoonly passing through the cork, a is a wide tubewith a funnel-shaped top, B is plain, and c is slightlybent at the top, where there is attached to it (bymeans of a piece of iudian-rubber tubing) a longtube, e, which is bent up and drawn to a point at itsother extremity. The cork and tubes should fit perfectly. To setthe fountain in action, fi
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . led three holes. Through these holes passrespectively the three glass tubes, a, b, and c; thelatter reaching nearly to the bottom, the other twoonly passing through the cork, a is a wide tubewith a funnel-shaped top, B is plain, and c is slightlybent at the top, where there is attached to it (bymeans of a piece of iudian-rubber tubing) a longtube, e, which is bent up and drawn to a point at itsother extremity. The cork and tubes should fit perfectly. To setthe fountain in action, fill the bottle, and when it isfull, continue to pour water gently into the funneluntil it is above the level of the bend in the tube c,when a little will flow over into the long leg e of thesyphon. The water will then of course continue toflow until the level of the water in the bottle fallsbelow the mouth of the tube c. The tube b is for the escape of the air while should be taken to keep the bottle clean, andfree from particles of sand and grit, or these will getinto the pipe and stop the Fig-. 22. The Diimvnls, restored. appearance. Writing of the post-pliocene period,the author remarks : Two gigantic birds seem tohave lived in New Zealand during this epoch. TheDinornis, which, if we may judge from the tibia,which is upwards of three feet long, and from itseggs, which are much larger than those of theostrich, must have been of most extraordinary sizefor a bird. As to the Epiornis, the egg only liasbeen found. At the meeting of the Zoological Society, held onthe 12th of December, Mr. W. H. Flower communi-cated some notes from Dr. Hector, Director of theGeological Survey, New Zealand, upon the bones ofvarious species of Dinornis, which had been exhibitedin the New Zealand Exhibition, recently held atDunedin. We were led into an error in our last number(page 2S2), in stating that the Moas egg was sold for Jan. 1, 1SCG.] SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 15 £120. It is true tha
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