The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217347129
Paperback|9780217347129
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: phia, besides some Polythalmia and Spongolites. The following are American forms: ? Arcella constricta, Eunotia quarternaria, Desmogonium Guayanense, ... quinaria, Eunotia Camelus, Gomphonema Vibrio, depressa, Himantidium Papilio, Pileus, ... Zygodon, Navieulo undosa, Stauroneis dilatata, Synedra Entomon, Guiriella Peruana, Fragmenta incerta. A simultaneous occurrence of dust showers and falls of meteoric stones, has been observed in probably eighteen instances before the Christian era. During the Christian era, fourteen coincidences have been observed, making thirty- two in all. (Tables and Drawings of Infusoria in a future Number. Singing Birds and Sweet Flowers in Jamaica. In tropical countries, where brilliant and varied colours have been granted to the birds and flowers, song has been denied to the one and fragrance to the other. This is one of those flippant generalisations which people are fond of repeating, originally made without investigation, and perpetuated without inquiry. In Jamaica it is certainly very far from truth; and I suspect would be found as groundless everywhere else. The groves and fields of this sunny isle ring with the melody of birds, to a degree fully equal, in my judgment, to that of Europe. In the lone forests of the mountain heights the Glass-eye Merle (Merula Jamaicensis) pours forth a rich and continued song; and that mysterious harmonist, the Solitaire (Ptilogonys armillatus'), utters his sweet but solemn thrills, long-drawn and slow, like broken notes of a psalm, so perfectly in keeping with the deep solitude. In the woods that cover, as with an ever verdant crown, the lower hills, the Black Shrike (Tityra leuconotus), and the Cotton-tree Sparrow (Pyrrhula violacea), enunciate their clear musical calls, so mu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217347129 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217347126 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $22.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 272 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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