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MAMMALS

... history; one man studies reptiles, another chooses to work at spiders, while a third will make a speciality of corals or of jelly-fishes. And when the specialist on corals comes to write, say, on horses, he finds it necessary to call in the aid of another ...

CHINA AT THE FISHERIES EXHIBITION

... the Chinese who mre clever enough to utilise the jelly-fish for the table, and even they only contrive to turn an honest penny out of the blubbering organism by an ingenious system of drying. Jelly-fish catlet, or haunch, has yet to be aohievedt even in ...

CLIPPINGS FROM THE COMICS

... you mean by a hint?s S che: W\\ell-they can always say, ' Oh, I doi love y ou so !''-PuZCh,. ;TH-E FIRST IDEALIST.i A jelly-fish swam in a tropical sea, And he said, ''This world it consists of Mle:* ?? noth~ing above and nothling belowv r That a jeiy ...

Magazines

... Mr. Romanes's on the beginnings of nerve-tissue as first found in the ascending series of animal life in the Medusoe, or jelly-fishes, are both singularly able papers, but, as may be imagined, of a highly technical character.-Mr. Walter Pater gives us a ...

THE READER

... over by an Almighty intelligence, and this view is set forth popularly by means of dialogues between lizards, crabs, and jellyfish, and by the per- sonification of Chance and the natural forces. The authors evi- dently know their facts, and they have chosen ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1713 | Page: 25 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS

... thing of that sort. One famous investigation, for instance, was the discovery that all the higher animals were got from the Jelly-fish by pulling it out lengthways and pinching its mouth aperture in at the middle. Another triumph of the art was that schematic ...

CHRISTIMAS BOOKS

... animal kingdom, whose forms or habits are remarkable. The reader is conducted to the homnes of the frog, the newt, the jelly-fish, the crab, the dolphin, the seal, tc., shown how they conduot themselves there, and told amus- ing stories about them. The ...

THE GREAT AMERICAN LANGUAGE

... great American larguage, indeed, is not fet fully fozmed. It still remains in what Pro- besor Saycea-sptiy describes as the jelly-fish atage of'Wtieiolationr. Lasguages in this stage are picturesque' and plastic, but they exhibit, of course, a corrdpbandh* ...

AMUSEMENTS IN EDINBURGH

... charming style; Miss Alice Aynsley Cooke maintains her high reputation, and scores with the new I song The cockroach and the jellyfish ; Mr Charles I Angelo is good as Valorous; and Messrs J. W. Hand- ley, Sidney Vincent, P. Howard Sturgess, George Fearoley ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1363 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE FISHERIES EXHIBITION

... real medusas which under- te-l business of propagation, the whole ?? united. There are also speci- anens of the meduste, or jelly-fish, which when a ye *paatetheir pretty belle fringed with 0 oisred~ntatestihough the water. There are apg:ecnene of rib jclly-flsb ...

A NEW CENSORSHIP OF LITERATURE

... isnal pam,;na tion that humanity becomes headless, trunkless, limbless, aud i; converted into the pulseless, non-verLebrate, jelly-fish sort of thins which, ?? packed in tin-cornered boxes, is sent from the !,odtor depot and scattered through the drawing-roomns ...

Magazines

... fair article ( Living Lamps ) on the light-giving creatures of land and sea, from the fire- fly to the phosphorescent jelly-fish ; and a good paper, all Artist's Strolls in Holland, to which is prefixed a very fine wood-engraving of Rembrandt's ...