RM2AM2RYD–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . d F. Fig. I.Reprefents a horie with his tail in theframe, or machine. A, is a pad, towhich is faflened a circingle B. C C, twoTide ftraps, one on each fide of the horfe,faftened to the circingle, to keep themachine from going to either {^^, D,a breafl p
RM2AM2P24–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . fit- yi/ic ^l/io. Idt.l. T.7i4js//yr ^/.//r•/// . Ilate X .
RM2AM2W3N–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . rative^ by means oj which it ishoped the too frequent ife offtrong purges^may in time be aifcarded; for we doubtnoty when gentleme7i are once convinced ofthe nature and power of alteratives^ andguarded againft the abfurd notions of farriers^ in relation
RM2AM2WW8–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . Webster Family Librar of Veterinary Medicine r -liolno of Tie. THE Gentlemans Farriery: O R, A PRACTICAL TREATISE O N T H E Diseases of HORS ES: Wherein the beft Vv^riters on that Subjecthave been confulted, and M. La Fosses Method of Trepanning Glander
RM2AM2PJ8–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . fit- yi/ic ^l/io. Idt.l
RM2AM2RK4–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . the furface, how inconvenientfoever it may be in other refpeds -, thoughk mull: be confefled, from our method offlioeing race horfes, where the whole footcomes into immediate conta6t with theground, notwithftanding the courfe theyj3w over is often very
RM2AM2MHG–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . s, I. The 363 EXPLANATION of the I. The T^endo-Achilles^ difleded to fhewthe coronary bone. 6. 3. The nut bone *. 4. The concave part of the foot-boneto which the tendon is fixed. 7. The ligament of the foot-bone withthe nut-bone. 8. The ligament of the
RM2AM2PY5–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . ^/i<i.^i.
RM2AM2NRX–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . T.7i4js//yr ^/.//r•/// . Ilate X .. JJi.iJiiv/.- E X P L A N A TI O N, Sff. 367 Explanation of the Figures of the Second Plate, The fourth figure fhews a back view ofthe leg. 7. Thefkin laid open, in order to viewthe inner fofc parts belonging to the ar
RM2AM2TMP–The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . turns it. T, the faw-partto be applied to the bone. From a view of this inftrument, themanner of working it will appear fimpleand eafy •, the coopers nianaging his wim-ble being ^ proper directory. K 2 - The 132 Ofthe GLANDERS. The inftrument called the
RM2AM4M03–Alas! : a novel . in all my life • • You would have been a sweep if youhad! interjects Jim. 11 I never heard her cnVe anv reason forit, did you? It was as baseless as it wassenseless. After a pause, his voice takingon again its inflection of confident, soaringtriumph : But it cannot last—it is abso-lutelv beyond the wildest bounds of possi-bility that it can last! After five minutestalk mother will be at her feet; I knowmy mother so well! N: 1 one of herexquisite ways will be lost upon her, andshe will do her very best to win her ! Jim,I ask you—I put it to you quietly andplainly—I know you th
RM2AMYW63–The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . a pamphlet relating to the Guild of 1762, as theold theatre in Fishergate Street;- in 1771 General Burgoyne, member ofParliament for the borough, took part in a performance for the charities ofthe town. In 1791 this theatre was leased for twenty-one years by ThomasWoodcock architect, of Preston, to Stephen Kemble, of the Theatres Royal,Edinburgh and Newcastle, at a rental of ^31 los. a year ; 3 it was ultimatelyabandoned and a new one built in 1802. One printed by Harrop & Newton, and the other by—. Stuart; both
RM2AX4BEF–Quarterly journal of microscopical science . rs of the interseptal spaces between thecalcareous septa, which are disposed second and third, right andleft, from the median inferior or ventral septum. This pair ofconical pits in each calicle is extremely deep, and after thecorallum has been treated with acid for some time, and all othertraces of the calicles have been dissolved away, the pairs of pitsremain conspicuous, still disposed in rows all over its surface.The pits are situate in the inferior or ventral region of eachcalicle, just inferiorly to its shorter diameter. The calicles areall di
RM2AN35KA–Kentish lyrics, sacred, rural, and miscellaneous; . opse;And here and there I see a cheerful broom On the bleak upland tops.The woods are redolent of sweets Within their lone domain, Where solitude and beauty reign ;And wildest wild flowers in their safe retreatsBlossom from year to year.Natures own temple in the woods is here,And here the breathing incense of her flowers,Through spring and summer, and autumnal hours,Ascends to heaven in worship undefiled. The woods are choristers, for ever singing,Touching the harp-strings of the pliant trees,To music grand and wild;And heavenly melodies Are
RM2AJ7M6N–Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . belong. The CentralShoeblacks (red) Bri-gade originated atthe time of the GreatExhibition, and hasever since done won-derful reformatorwork as well aspublic service. Of all Londonsuniformed host noneare more popular thanthe Corps of Com-missionaires, whoha-e their head-quarters off the i PARK KEEPER (L.C.C. Strand not far from parks).. UNIFORMED LONDON. 183 Charing Cross. The institution ofthe Corps was a really brilliantidea, which ensured civil em-ployment mainly for ex-soldiersand sailors, an
RM2AG0E5X–. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. d thatched, on account of the warmth of these materials, thoughstone is abundant in most places. There are a few small enclosures near the farm-yard;but to enclose generally could be of no use in a country where the 8:Jsnow, during six or eight months in the year, renders them nuga-tory either as shelters or fences. The fence in universal use ismade
RM2ANFRYH–MrPunch's history of modern England . y Herbert and, above all, of Florence Night-ingale. This had moved the country deeply, and the indignationwas not easily allayed. Florence Nightingales services arerepeatedly referred to. She was Punchs chief heroine in theseyears, fronj the day of her first mention and the publication ofThe Nightingales Song : — THE NIGHTINGALES SONG TO THE SICK SOLDIER Listen, soldier, to the tale of the tender Nightingale,Tis a charm that soon will case your wounds so cruel, Singing medicine for your pain, in a sympathizing strain.With a jug, jug, jug of lemonade or gru
RM2AJBGAC–A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . the centre of govern-ment was removed to Seleucia in its own immediateneighbourhood. Then, at first possibly under compul-sion, and afterwards of their omu free w^ill, the commercialclasses followed their rulers to the west bank of theTigris ; and Babylon suffered in proportion. In theswift rise of Seleucia in response to official orders, w^emay see clear proof that the older citys influence hadbeen founded upon natural conditions, which wereshared in an equal, and now in even a greater degree, bythe site of the
RM2AJ4E3C–Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . iquidrefuse, facal, and other matters, must be so con-structed as to preserve the site of the habitationfrom lieing polluted ami prevent the entrance ofany sowaj^e-air into the house. .s a rule it is nowrequired that every house-drain connected with apublic sewer shall have an intercepting trap placedoetween the hoiLse and the sewer. This trap servesthe purpose of cutting oil the direct connectionbetween the house and the .sewer, so that if thehou.se-drainage works are imperfectly carried outthe intercepting trap will at least pr
RM2AKACN3–Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey . 03O OC3 C3 (yCO ^ I s ^l^f^ 5-^^.2^ HH X -1-3 CD %^l m O CD o 03 n3 O e3 !=> = ^(-jrO J3 ES T3 S-i O ^^i Xap^ i^ A .J • Al/,va rw--^^ k> i!^^ ^ - fUtc 2^^^ ?^-^-v^ vf. ^?^--. /I
RM2AGAWR3–. Elegiac trio : for flute, viola and harp. ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ V ft ^f ^r f > !r <f it r r Hi. pp suddenly ¥» r T r jr r i ^fc cresc. K »*ii r cr«c, .ixngingoui «—•?
RM2AX739E–Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . REMBRANDT S FATHER. 1630 (B. 229). OTHER PICTURES OF THAT EPOCH 53 represented ? Like Dr, Bode, we must be content to ask the ques-tion, without offering a solution. The picture is a very attractive one,. BAPTISM OF THE EUNUCH. (Engraved by J. van Vleit, in 1631, after a picture by Rembrandt.) and the problematical nature of the theme adds to its interest. Theimpasto is moderately fat in the lights, the touch precise and mellow, 54 REMBRANDT light and easy, the colour most harmonious. The delicately modelledhead of the old man is full of expression,
RM2AX6C9M–Roses for English gardens . State A -iid I,,., PLAN OF A ROSE GARDEN ON LEVEL GROUND ENCLOSED DYYEIV HEDGES, BEYOND WHICH ARE TALL EVER-GREENS. SUCH AS ILEX OR CYPRESS.. RAMBLING ROSE {Double AtvetisisJ. RUNNING INTO TREESAT WOOD EDlE, as described at p. 69.
RM2AKWMR9–Battles of the nineteenth century . itions. On -Monday, the iqtli, Hlangwane Hill wasabandoned by the Boers as soon as our troops advanced to occupy it. Hlangwane commandsColenso and the crossing near the village, andby Monday morning the Boers had evacuated it,and later in the day General Harts Irish brigademarched into the village from Chieveley, andthe Royal Engineers got the railway intoworking order up to the old station. Duringthe Mondaj- and Tuesday BuUer was at workimproving the roads from Chieveley to the cap-tured-hills, bridging the stream, and bringing upguns and ammunition to prep
RM2AN7HPK–The stepping stone to natural history : vertebrate or back-boned animals ... . THE STEPPING STONE TO NATURAL HISTORY. Q. By what name is this study commonly called ? A. Zoology, a term derived from two Greek words signifying a Discourse on Ani- Q Of what does the Animal Kingdom consist ? A. Of all creatures having a mouth to receive their food, and a stomach to digest it ? * Q. How many different species of animals aresupposed to exist in our world ? A. They have been estimated at about 600,000of which Vertebrated animals number17,500 species, and Insects 550,000 species. Q. In what way are th
RM2AJ0K2C–Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. . ct health, as the Children and I are ;but his rheumatism is in abeyance, owing, we believe,under God, to the acetic acid ; and the faint, breath-less fits now seldom come. Every other way he isstrong and well, and, as usual, going through a vastamount of work. Ever since the Daysprijig left, with Dr. Steele andour mail for Sydney, four months ago, Missionwork has been going on like steam here ; and we areboth as busy and as happy as the day is long, havingalmost more teaching than we can manage, as theNatives are turning out better than they have e
RM2AJDC35–Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . f/jr Fin. 6S.—Knossos; miniature fresco. Candia Museum.{After J.H.S., XX, PI. V.) has developed a sort of shorthand representation ;a crowd is shewn by a mass of faces, heads in outlinewith no bodies, and to indicate the difference betweenthe sexes the mens heads are drawn in outline on a redbackground, and the womens on a white one. Thiswas a very simple and summary method ; its effect isvery curious. These floating heads give an almost eerieimpression, as if we were looking at the ghosts of these1 A/ox- E<^. 191
RM2AJ20AR–Quarterly journal of microscopical science . ought out in another place(cf. pp. 542 and 543). In some cases I have seen the wormscome to rest by simply stopping without any appreciable traceof the feeling movements, but this is not the usual pro-cedure. In coming to rest in one of the collections already men-tioned, the feeling movements are usually very well markcMl. 5G0 IfAYMOND TEAEL. There is a well-maiked tendency for tlie planarians studiedto come to vest in such a way that the long axis of the bodyforms a right angle, or nearly a right angle, with the linesof the force of gravitation. T
RM2AG61MM–. Quarterly journal of microscopical science. shorter than the base of the exopodite. Secondmaxillipedes with a rudimentary epipodite, but without anybranchiae. Third maxillipedes with reduced epipodite, dilatedand articulated at its base, with the mesopodite standing-forward and carrying the carpus on its internal face. Asingle pleurobranch : three pairs of swimmerets in the female.Blind. The antenna? cannot conceal themselves completelybeneath the rostrum (in Cymopolus they can). Species 1.—C. quadratus, A. Milne-Edwards. Bull. Mus.Comp. Zool., vol. viii, No. 1, p. 26 (1880). The characters
RM2AFTC9H–. Tales of chivalry : or, Perils by flood and field ..... ce. When within five or sixyards of their destination, they broke offinto single files, and surrounding thegrave, at uniform intervals knelt silentlydown. The commander of the frigate,and the others in succession, then kii^sedthe slab;—when they arose, every lip wasfixed —every bosom full. In a few days subsequently, the officersof both countries met at Solimans table,and after dinner the first toast proposedby the French commodore was, Theking of England—three times three ! Ireally thought that the Hip — hip—hurra! of our ancient enemi
RM2AGAPD4–. Tales from the old French. d them wholly to God. Thennear the castle upon the other side, Eliduclet build a church, and added thereto themore part of his land, and all his gold andsilver; and men of good religion he placedthere to maintain the house and the order.And when all was made ready he delayedno longer, but he, together with his wife,surrendered themselves to the service ofGod omnipotent. The lady whom he held so dear heplaced with his first wife, who receivedher like a sister and did her great honour,and furthermore admonished her to serve 71 ^CibuC ^^ ^^^ instructed her in the rule
RM2AN1AH9–Footprints of the Apostles, as traced by Saint Luke in the Acts : being sixty portions for private study and instruction in church . -JWtt/tSiW^.
RM2AGAXKT–. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, knt.. atient ofpeace any longer then whiles they are in recoveringthe ruines of warre; the presentnesse of danger in-flames their courage, but any expectation makes it lan-guish ; for the most, they are all imagination, and nojudgement, but those that prove solid, excell; theirgentlemen are all good outward men, good courtiers,good souldiers, and knowing enough in men andbusinesse, but meerly ignorant in matters of letters,because at fifteene they quit bookes, and begin tolive in the world, when indeed a mediocritie betwixtth
RM2AKWC1J–The book of antelopes . e Societys Collection, numerous specimens of the Black-buckhave been acquired by the Society since that date, but, probably on accountof the small free space assigned to them, little or no success has been metwith in breeding this beautiful species in the Regents Park. On the otherhand, at the Jardin dAcclimatation at Paris and in other places under aclimate more genial than our own, where large paddocks can be assignedto it, the Black-buck frequently reproduces in captivity and flourishesexceedingly. No figures of the Black-buck having been drawn under the late Sir Vic
RM2AWX3XF–After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . DUCK SHOOTING ?93 Zaissan, there were two passes into the BashkaousValley, and he strongly recommended the KoukouriouPass, to which, in our ignorance of the country, weagreed. The other way, he said, was much longer,and the path more difficult for the ponies. In the. ?ACKlNi; HORN:- afternoon of the 17th August we had finished ourpreparations, and went out Duck shooting on one ofthe numerous lakes of the Kosh-Agatch steppe. Istill hoped to get the rare Duck I had been asked tolook for by Mr. Alpheraki, but though we shotseveral, they were all of co
RM2AWF2NG–Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . KENILWORTH MERVYN S TOWER. Some remains of the ancient abbey, faid to have been builtby Geoffrey de Clinton, the original builder of the caftle, ftillremain near the caftle,—part of them now forming a cow-houfe or barn, as well as the old gateway,—and the fine J KENILWORTH CASTLE. 27 Norman arch forming the entrance to the parifh church isfaid to have been the chief entrance to the abbey, which wasremoved thither. Altogether, the pleafantnefs of the countryin which the remains of Kenilworth ftand, their own ftriking;beauty, and the memor
RM2AJ8HFA–Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . - and. RECKHATION ROOM .T THK KKD HOrSK, STRINEV. Ill 114 LlNl.Xr, LONDON. -arious to mention. Counter attractions tothe influence of the low [jublic-houscs anddemoralising places of entertainment are apart of the organisation in po.ssession ofevery district mentioned as deser ing essen-tially the name of Slum-land. The Red House, a coffee palace in con-nection with St. Augustines, Stepne}-, is anexample. It is formed on a similar modelto that of the Institute for Seamen at Poplar.With a fine f
RM2AN4JBW–Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . nd a vote in the assembly ofthe new city. But it does not follow that the lotswere all equal or that there may not have been dis-tinctions in the disposal of offices. For a while, aslong as the settlement was weak, they would welcomenew citizens. When these were no longer needed, thetendency among the old citizens would be to closerequality among themselves and to sharper separation 6o THE FIRST AGE OF THE GREEK CITIES. between themselves and new comers. We get one signof political disputes among the Gamoroi themselves.When Himera was founded from Zankle
RM2AM5J9H–Specimens of the architecture of Normandy, from the 16th to the 17th centuryEngraved by John and Henry Le Keux . laj^otv £-£ili2ibu.ritft ASTICAL ARCHITECTURE TLJV.. :^yL^^u^n/] il,, ? i,-u^:-v: APii^ dirt-i*.-T A3->ai.u-ile dt-T IiLt w-ior xeMr of the Cliutorli. loc.lnTip- T,ri Blackie &: Son. ZortdeTn..Glasg<nv & Sdmbuivi l:chitectu?.i:
RM2AJJXGD–Studies on fermentation : the diseases of beer, their causes, and the means of preventing them . r tohave originated from a round ferment. The cells are muchexhausted, and most of them seem to have a double border;their interior is very granular and of a yellowish colour.One might readily take the specimen to be a dead oldferment, which, however, it by no means is. Fig. 36 represents the germination of this ferment, whichhad previously been revived in a flask of wort, at the tempera-ture of the air, in May, 1875. The following are the details ofour observation :— We sowed a trace of the exhaus
RM2AWGE3K–The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . storm of battle. It is with this stage that wearc concerned rather than with that later one in which gradually as that monkish enthusiasm becamemore thoughtful, and as the sound of war becamemore and more intermittent beyond the gates of theconvent or the keep, the stone pillar grew slenderand the vaulted roof grew light, till they had wreathedthemselves into the resemblance of the summerwoods at their fairest and of the dead field-flowers,long trodden down in blood, sweet monumentalstatues were set to bloom for ever beneath the porchof the temple or the canopy
RM2AJGN7G–Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 42. RECEPTION BY HINDU TRADERS AT BIGIL, NEAR YARKAND.Pandit Butha Mai fourth in front, from left. Pao-tai in backg^round.. 43. BAZAR GROUP BY CANAL BANK, NEAR KARGHALIK. CH.X1 LORDLY QUARTERS AT CHINI-BAGH 131 that of Kashgar. The attractions of the Yarkand Chini-bagh, where I again took up my quarters, had in no way-diminished. Often I had from afar recalled to my mindthe picture of its spacious halls, and it was now cheering tomake sure that the picture was true in all details. PlentifulKhota
RM2AKR5FX–Violin-making, as it was and is : being a historical, theoretical, and practical treatise on the science and art of violin-making, for the use of violin makers and players, amateur and professional . erfectly flat on the top, but is worked out underneath, to theextent and in the manner shown in the section of the tail-piecec, and in the view of the front end of it B. This fore part hasfour long openings a a a a, placed at a suitable distance fromeach other, and made to receive the like number of little pegs formed as at E. The hind part f of A,which is semicircular, stands a littlelower than t
RM2AGDAC4–. The story of Africa and its explorers. ich were at that time at large on theveldt—and he did not observe that she hadwhelps with her. Beginning to halloo in hisusual way, she looked up, growled savagely,and, before he had time to retreat, she sprangat him and destroyed him on the spot. At places, reputed to be sharp for lions,Alexander used to lie down with a dust-mans bell—we are speaking of the first year TO BE HAD FOB THE TAKING. 189 of Queen Victorias reign—at his head, notfor the purpose of summoning anyone todinner, but with the intention of frighteningthe hons from approaching what mi
RM2AJBMDX–Napoleon and King Murat, a biography compiled from hitherto unknown and unpublished documents . nta letter in which, while expressing her thanks to Napoleonfor liis kindness, she pleaded her recent miscarriage as thereason which compelled her to decline. Notwithstandingthis, the united testimony of all who were about her atthe time was to the effect that her health was excellent.The real reason of her refusal was that she dared notleave Naples, not knowing when, if ever, she would return. I learned, from a source which left no room for doubt,writes Durant, that the Queen was violently disquiet
RM2AFKB2F–. The history of Ailington, Aylton, or Elton. ingSelected garlands each returning spring;Selected sweets in honour of the maid,Who underneath the mossy turf is laid. The little enclosed spaces round a few graves belonging to variousfamilies are planted with the old fragrant cabbage-rose, red and whitepinks, daisies, and such like perennials. As a rule these miniaturegardens are cared for and well kept. Yew-trees somewhat thicklyplanted will soon, if not carefully pruned, encroach upon the availableportion of the ground. One, near the south porch, which was veryornamental, has unfortunately bee
RM2AFNK6E–. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. m from it may be made fully available for steam-cooking apparatus, which thuswould cost nothing ; it requires, however, a particular adaptation, in order that the power of the enginemay not be reduced, by driving the steam through any considerable resistance. Occasionally, but rarely, fluids may require to be boiledby steam, as stirabout for pigs,or
RM2AKA28M–An archaelogical index to remains of antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon periods .
RM2AJ95WW–Through south Westland, a journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring, New Zealand . ist; gorgesand foot-hills were cut off by a level band of cloud;nothing to be seen but grey stones near hand, anddistant purplish forest afar, under the soft, billowymist. Later it cleared, and about five oclock wewere riding down to a lovely still ford, lying blueand fair in the sunshine. Long reaches of quietwater stretched under over-hanging trees, leadingthe eye up to distant blue mountains, across whichlay the last wreaths of silvery cloud. Beyond theford the land was cleared, and a few small settle-ments wer
RM2AGEFJN–. The story of Africa and its explorers.
RM2AJEMWW–The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . arryforth provisions and pay to the troops of the Sultan Suleyman Shah ;and after they had conveyed all that he commanded them to takeforth, he brought out a hundred coursers, and a hundred dromedaries,and a hundred memlooks, and a hundred concubine slaves, and ahundred male black slaves, and a hundred female slaves, and sentthem all to him as a present. He then repaired to him, with the lords of his empire, and hischief attendants, and they proceeded until they arrived outside thecity; an
RM2AJ1CPF–Orchids for everyone . ood form have a spread of eight inches, but theylack the breadth of petal found in the popular Cattleyas. Fromthree to nine flowers are borne on a stout spike in Spring or earlySummer. In the type the sepals and petals are white, flushed withrose, the large lip being of similar shade, with crimson lines in thepale yellow throat, and a broad red-purple front lobe. There arenumerous varieties, and a few of the finest of these are L. P. alba,L. p. atropurpurea, L. p. Brysiana, L. p. Russelliana, and L. p. SCHRCEDERIANA. L. TENEBROSA is Very like L. purpurata in growth, but
RM2AM1AHR–A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . l^V.Ut^-itf .X . PR VERSAILLES. GARDLN FRONT AS ALTERED BY J. H. MANSART (SUC p. l88) I. 1.XXIII. I. TO lACK r. 187] JULES HARDOUIN MANSART 187 and his architect a past-master, Mansart seems to have gradually gotinto his own hands the whole control of the palace. Nor was hedeterred by a sense of chivalry from taking advantage of an openingat the expense of his friends and colleagues. Saint-Simon says thatwhen Le Notre was absent in Italy, Mansart seized the opportunity todesign and carry out the
RM2AM6XKY–Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the 'Handbook of British Fungi' . AGARICUS {HEBUOMA) NUDIPES. tnes.unthcrjmuml. Tmmel Jfood, Watford. Oct.. X&m.. H2. i/ -; r AGARICUS l,HEBELOMAl CAPNIOCEPHALUS Unit,amongst piiw leaves. (Mu-s Berkeley.) DERMINJI. PL. 420.
RM2AWHCNH–Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . y shut up fora few weeks, and fattened before being kiUed.Great numbers are imported from Holland andGermany for the London market, and fattened inEngland in establishments entirely devoted to thispurpose. Goose-hams are an esteemed delicacy.The gizzards, heads, and legs of geese are alsosold in sets, under the name of giblets, to be usedfor pies. The livers of geese have long been inrequest among epicm-es; but the pale de foiedoie, or 2Mte de foie gras of Strasburg, is made fromlivers in a state of morbid enlargement, caused bykee
RM2ANHDBJ–Hormones and heredity; a discussion of the evolution of adaptations and the evolution of species; . bankiva. Both the pigmented skin of theSilky and the colour in the plumage of the bankivaare dominant, so that all the offspring in F^ or thefirst generation are coloured fowls with pigmentedskins. But in later generations I found that withregard to skin pigment there were no pure recessives.Since the heterozygote in F^ was deeply pigmented,it is certain that a bird with only a small amountof pigment in its skin was a recessive resulting fromincomplete segregation of the pigmented character.The
RM2AKW2B3–The book of antelopes . and Kumaon from the Hume Collection. H 2 52 Our illustration (Plate L.), which represents a male of this animal in asnowstorm, has been put upon the stone by Mr. Smit from a coloureddrawing prepared by Mr. Wolf under the directions of the late Sir VictorBrooke. August, 1897. 53 Genus V. ANTIDORCAS. Type.Antidorcas, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p. 271 (1847). A. euchore. General characters as in Gazella, but, as in Saiga tatarica alone of Rumi-nants, with only two lower premolars, and the upper anterior premolar reducedto half the size of the second. Back with
RM2AG0F7Y–. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. assemblages of log-houses all of one size and shape, with a small wooden church.The mansions of the poorer nobles are merely cottages on a larger scale, with two apart-ments ; one used for the purposes of the kitchen and other domestic offices, and theother for all the purposes of the family living-rooms: the more wealthy have woodenor brick houses
RM2AJJK35–The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . VCj <fe?, P V ^ JA^ b-,^^^^.: Cjer ^ i -J $. ^Illl i liP. Dktails oi- Accas Cross. [IoL [[[., facing p. 146. I BISHOP ACCA 147 conceivably in connection with the record that forsome unexplained reason he was driven out of hisbishopric. . The cross which stood at the feetis also, I believe, in existence under certain secularfoundations. It is said to be a continuous piece atleast 14 feet long. ^ The name of Acca is commemorated in theCalendar on the 19th of February, and severalmiracles are assign
RM2AFX174–. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. t. When the harvest was over, Naomi, who was anxious for the rest and welfare of the goodand devoted creature who had been more than a daughter to her, acquainted her with whathad lately engaged her thoughts. She said that Boaz was so near of kin that he came underthe operation of the levirate law, which required that when a man died childless, his next ofkin should marry the widow, in order that the first child born from this union should becounted as the son of the deceased, and inherit as his he
RM2AM68J4–Ferns: British and exotic.. . e that it is only to be found at Kew. It is an evergreen stove species. Native of Java. The fronds are pinnatifid, having a lengthy stipes; they aresmooth, the sinus wide, obtuse, and rounded; lacinire broadlyVOL. II. S 128 POLYPODIUM SACCATUM. lanceolate, acaminate, caudate, and subfalcate. Eight to tenpairs, with an ultimate one; these are from eight to ten incheslong, and about an inch and a quarter wide. Veins external, prominent, widely apart, especially the basalones, compound anastomosing, forming hexagonal areoles. Sori transversely uniserial, from twelve
RM2AKRFMY–Regeneration . autotomy the part thrown off does not producea new animal. The breaking off of the tail of the lizard at the base,if the outer part is injured, is an example of a typical process ofautotomy. The throwing off of the crabs leg, if the leg is injured, isalso another typical case of autotomy. There is a definite breaking-joint at the base of the crabs leg at which the separation alwaystakes place (Fig. 45, A i-i). The breaking-joint is in the middle ofthe second segment from the base of the leg, where there is found, AUTOTOMY 151 on the outside of the leg, a ring-like groove that ma
RM2AJM3FK–Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 . which had beensaved out of his modest income, was rapidly progressing,and promised soon to replace the wooden building inwhich he then officiated. I passed sixteen days, veryagreeably, with him, sometimes hunting on Mount Sabab,at other times making excursions on the rivers andcanals. The country greatly resembles the province ofPakpriau, the plain being, perhaps, still more desert anduncultivated; but at the foot of the mountains, and insome of the delightful valleys, pepper is grow
RM2AKNTM3–The works of John Ruskin . ntal lines appears to me much connected with theiractive sea life; and as the vase turned upon the wheel thetracing of these level lines by the steady pencil was, I think,associated more in the workmans mind with his pleasurein the sea horizon or in the extent of some fruitful plain,than with the plinths and other mouldings which afterwardscarried the same delight in horizontal lines into the rulingforms of his noblest architecture. It is very interesting tofind the same pleasure in the horizontal bar governing theotherwise totally different mural designs of the two