 Shells hang at the Tree by a Neck longer than the Shell, of a kind of Filmy substance, round, and hollow, and creased, not unlike the Wind-pipe of a chicken, spreading out broadest where it is fastened to the Tree, from which it seems to draw and convey...  The Conchologist - Page 14by John Warren - 1834 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...of a kind of filmy substance, round the hollow, and creased not unlike the wind-pipe of a ckickcn; spreading out broadest where it is fastened to the...serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell, and the little bird within it. " This bird, in every shell that I opened, as well '»e least as the biggest,... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...Transactions) declares, " that these SHELLS, are hung at the Tree by a Neck, longer than the SHELL, of a filmy Substance, round and hollow, and creased not...Vegetation of the SHELL, and little Bird within it." He continues, " In every SHELL that I opened, I found a perfect Sea-foul, the little Bill, like that... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...Transactions) declares, " that these SHELLS, are hung at the Tree by a Neck, longer than the SHELL, of a filmy Substance, round and hollow, and creased not...Vegetation of the SHELL, and little Bird within it." He continues, " In every SHELL that I opened, I found a perfect Sea-fowl, the little Bill, like that... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 366 pages
...(Philosophical Transactions, vol. II. num. 137. p. 925, 926.) gives the followin; account. " These shells bang at the tree by a neck longer than the shell ; of a...serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell, and the little bird within it. This bird in every shell that I opened, as well the least as the biggest,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...(says he) hang at the tree by a neck longer Ihan the shell, of a kind of filmy substance, round the hollow, and creased not unlike the wind-pipe of a...serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell, and the little bird within it. " This bird, in every shell that I opened, as well the least as the biggest,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...divide it into five parts. " These parts are fastened one to another, with such a film as muscle-shells have. " These shells are hung at the tree by a neck,...matter which serves for the growth and vegetation o the shell, and little bird within it. " In every shell that I opened I found a perfect SeaJoml: the... | |
 | John Vaughan Thompson - 1830 - 166 pages
...Barnacles, (from the figure and description probably Lepas anatifera) he states that the pedicle " seems to draw and convey the matter which serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell and the little Bird within it." " In every shell that I opened I found a perfect Sea-Fowl ; the . little... | |
 | Mollusks - 1837 - 168 pages
...Robert Moray to the Royal Society, and printed by them in their Transactions. He says, " The pedicle seems to draw and convey the matter which serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell and the little bird within it." " In every shell that I opened, I found a perfect sea~ Analifa lavis. fowl;... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - Birds - 1838 - 208 pages
...chicken ; spreading out broadest where it is fastened to the tree, from which it seems to draw and convey matter, which serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell, and the little bird within it. " The bird in every shell that I opened, as well the least and the biggest,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 542 pages
...shells, having within them little birds perfectly shaped, supposed to be barnacles. These shells hang at the tree by a neck longer than the shell, of a...serves for the growth and vegetation of the shell and the little bird within it. This bird, in every shell that I opened, as I well the least as the biggest,... | |
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