The Uses of Animals in Relation to the Industry of Man: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the South Kensington MuseumR. Hardwicke, 1862 - 380 páginas |
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Página 243 - The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This, more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected.
Página 292 - It climbs trees, and, when taken young, is easily tamed. Upwards of half a million of the skins of this animal are imported annually into this country. Two-thirds of this number are re-exported, principally to Germany, where they are used for making hats. The hair of the upper part and sides of the body is of uniform length and colour. It is rather crisp, but tolerably soft. It is used for the linings of coats, for rugs, and other useful purposes. Another group of the Plantigrade Carnivora is the...
Página 192 - ... motion, giving motion to a horizontal crank and a train of wheels. To the equator of the ball, regarding the tapering rod as its pole, is attached a flat ring, which extends to and fits steam tight wiihin the hollow sphere. On one side of this ring a notch is made, to admit two communications, the one for the ingress and the other for the egress of the steam, or other fluid by which the machine is to be put in motion. Now suppose the ring to be raised on the side next to the passages'^ the steam,...
Página 337 - ... split at the points. They are shaped chiefly by means of rasps and scrapers of various forms, after having been roughed out by a hatchet or saw: the teeth are cut by a double saw fixed in a back, the two blades being set to different depths, so that the first cuts the tooth only...
Página 122 - By our first improvement in separating the fat acids from neutral fats, the glycerine was decomposed by the direct action of concentrated sulphuric acid at a high temperature, and all that remained of it was a charred precipitate. A new process for decomposing neutral fats by water under great pressure coming under our notice...
Página 217 - ... parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed, and, if in luck, so as to escape the watchful voracity of the thousand enemies that lie in wait, or prowl about to prey upon youth and inexperience, at length, having sown its wild oats, settles down into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened through...
Página 284 - The crown is also adorned with a band of " minever" with a single row of spots. The coronets of the peers and peeresses have also a similar decoration. The black spots are made of the skin of the black Astracan lamb. On state occasions, in the House of Lords, the peers are arrayed in their robes of state, of scarlet cloth and gold lace, with bars, or rows, of pure " minever," more or less, according to their degree of rank — the sovereign alone wearing the pure " minever" " powdered
Página 189 - ... polyps in place of leaves and flowers. Shrubbery, tufts of rushes, beds of pinks, and feathery mosses, are most exactly imitated. Many species spread out in broad leaves or folia, and resemble some large-leaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers.
Página 320 - The thumb and index finger being smeared with glue, the feathers are gently drawn between them, which stiffens the barbs, causing them to adhere firmly together; and when dry the perpendicular blade is drawn close to the shaft dividing it from the barbed portion. Holding this cutting...
Página 189 - Trees of coral are well known ; and although not emulating in size the oaks of our forests, — for they do not exceed six or eight feet in height, — they are gracefully branched, and the whole surface blooms with coral polyps in place of leaves and flowers. Shrubbery, tufts of rushes, beds of pinks, and feathery mosses, are most exactly imitated. Many species spread out in broad leaves or folia, and resemble some large-leaved plant just unfolding: when alive, the surface of each...