Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology v. 2, Volume 2Voorst, 1861 |
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Page 263 - Hunter, the founder of that noble collection, observes, in his minimal (Economy, that the cuckoo in certain seasons lives on caterpillars, some of which have hairs of a considerable length on their bodies, and that the ends of these hairs are found sticking in the horny coat of the stomach or gizzard, while the hairs themselves are laid flat on its surface ; not in every direction, which would be the case if there was no regular motion, but all one way, arising from a central point placed in the...
Page 350 - The first of these [ie the whitish firmer substance] appears to be composed of rings, or something similar, placed obliquely in contrary directions, so as to appear to be two spirals crossing one another. Whether the other, or softer substance, has any direction of fibres I could not observe, but I suspect it is muscular. If I am right in my conjecture of this structure and of its disposition, it will be no difficult thing to show how it may be elongated ; for if these rings are placed transverse,...
Page 470 - They saw the flames coming out of the chimney. He did not wish to admit them, but they insisted upon being admitted. I asked him how it happened, and then he told me that it was in burning those manuscripts of Mr. Hunter.
Page 228 - The subjects themselves may be valuable and may partly explain their connection with those related to them so as in some measure to establish their place in nature...
Page 251 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Page 369 - ... gill in fish. At the root of the tongue, nearly as far back as these openings reach, the trachea begins, much in the same manner as in birds. It passes backwards above the heart, and there divides into two branches, one going to each lobe of the lungs. The lungs are two long bags, one on each...
Page 475 - He huted deceit ; and as he was above every kind of artifice, he detested it in others, and too openly avowed his sentiments.
Page 350 - ... produced by muscles, which I take the pulpy substance to be. " The contraction of the tongue is owing to a degree of elasticity, but this appears to be only in the cellular membrane, acting as an assistant to the muscular. The muscular contraction is owing to two muscles, one on each side of the tongue : each arises from the os...
Page 229 - In collecting animals, even the name given by the natives if possible should be known, for a name to a naturalist should mean nothing but that to which it is annexed, having no allusion to anything else, for when it has it divides the idea.
Page 391 - Galvanic organs of this curious animal, is as follows:, " This fish, on the first view, appears very much like an eel, from which resemblance it has most probably got its name; but it has none of the specific properties of that fish. This animal may be considered, both anatomically and physiologically, as divided into two parts, viz. the common animal part, and a part which is superadded, viz. the peculiar organ. I shall at present consider it only with respect to the last...