Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society

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Page 67 - ... shrink unless held very hard ? And whether the same being forcibly plucked up, hath a worm for its root, diminishing more and more according as the tree groweth in greatness ; and as soon as the worm is wholly turned into the tree, rooting in the ground, and so growing great ' And whether the same plucked up young, turns, by that time it is dry, into a hard stone, much like to white coral ?
Page 30 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 38 - Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Page 70 - Thermometers are l1able, through age, to read too high; this instrument ought, therefore, at some future date, to be again tested at the melting point of ice, and if its reading at that point be found different from the one now given, an appropriate correction should be applied to all the above points.
Page 73 - Local names — whether they belong to provinces, cities and villages, or are the designations of rivers and mountains — are never mere arbitrary sounds, devoid of meaning. They may always be regarded as records of the past, inviting and rewarding a careful historical interpretation.
Page 31 - In relating so many instances of unparalleled credulity, I confess I cannot suppress the irascible passion : that ever men of sense, men of genius, men of distinguished abilities, should suffer themselves to be so involved, so deeply involved in the dark mists of error and ignorance ! They assign not the smallest reason to account for these birds being able to endure so long a submersion without being drowned or suffocated. Not the smallest reason is given how they preserve themselves,* or remain...
Page 67 - Whether diamonds and other precious stones grow again after three or four years in the same places where they have been dug out? A. Never, or at least as the memory of man can attain to.
Page 68 - Of this continent one of the inquiries was whether there be a tree in Mexico that yields water, wine, vinegar, milk, honey, wax, thread, and needles.
Page 77 - ... it is extremely doubtful whether any nerve in the human body, even if in an inflamed condition, would be in any way affected by such a particle supported in a dense fluid, and slowly brought into contact with the nerve. Yet the cells of the glands of Drosera are thus excited to transmit a motor impulse to a distant point, inducing movement. It appears to me that hardly any more remarkable fact than this lias been observed in the vegetable kingdom.
Page 70 - On the Upper Formations of the New Red Sandstone System in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire ; showing that the Red or Saliferous Marls, including a peculiar Zone of Sandstone, represent the

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