Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of God, in the Phenomena of the YearR. Carter, 1847 - 386 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 176
... flies . Unlike most other larvæ , these never cast the skin , not even when they change into pupæ . The maggot of the common blow - fly , for example , when about to undergo its transformation , quits the carrion on which it has been ...
... flies . Unlike most other larvæ , these never cast the skin , not even when they change into pupæ . The maggot of the common blow - fly , for example , when about to undergo its transformation , quits the carrion on which it has been ...
الصفحة 177
... blow - fly , without attracting the at- tention of one person in a million . ' * Were we to follow up this idea , by supposing the various tribes of the insect world magnified to the dimensions of man , and the vertebrated animals ...
... blow - fly , without attracting the at- tention of one person in a million . ' * Were we to follow up this idea , by supposing the various tribes of the insect world magnified to the dimensions of man , and the vertebrated animals ...
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