Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of Construction |
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... tube- makers - The SERPULE and their general habits - The Operculum of the Serpula - The TEREBELLE and their submarine houses - The CADDIS SHRIMP— Remarkable analogy 377 CHAPTER XXI . SOCIAL HABITATIONS . SOCIAL MAMMALIA . The BEAVER ...
... tube- makers - The SERPULE and their general habits - The Operculum of the Serpula - The TEREBELLE and their submarine houses - The CADDIS SHRIMP— Remarkable analogy 377 CHAPTER XXI . SOCIAL HABITATIONS . SOCIAL MAMMALIA . The BEAVER ...
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... tube . In a specimen now before me , the tube is between three and four inches in length , and at the base is large enough to admit the thumb . As , however , it gradually tapers to the extremity , the aperture at the other end is ...
... tube . In a specimen now before me , the tube is between three and four inches in length , and at the base is large enough to admit the thumb . As , however , it gradually tapers to the extremity , the aperture at the other end is ...
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... tube , which pro- jects through the mud into the water , and just permits the ex- tremities of the siphons to show themselves , surrounded by the little radiating tentacles which betray them to the experienced shell - hunter . These ...
... tube , which pro- jects through the mud into the water , and just permits the ex- tremities of the siphons to show themselves , surrounded by the little radiating tentacles which betray them to the experienced shell - hunter . These ...
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... tube , through which the siphon runs . The Clavagella is remarkable for the successive . frills that decorate the tube ; from three to six of these curious appendages being seen in various specimens . These frills are formed by the ...
... tube , through which the siphon runs . The Clavagella is remarkable for the successive . frills that decorate the tube ; from three to six of these curious appendages being seen in various specimens . These frills are formed by the ...
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... tube into one end , carrying the tube to a height of forty or fifty feet , and then connecting it with a tank filled with the solution . It is , of course , necessary that the timber should be thoroughly seasoned before it is thus ...
... tube into one end , carrying the tube to a height of forty or fifty feet , and then connecting it with a tank filled with the solution . It is , of course , necessary that the timber should be thoroughly seasoned before it is thus ...
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