A846    Beagle Library:     Dalyell, Thomas. 1814. Observations on some interesting phenomena in animal physiology, exhibited by several species of Planariae. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable.   Text

contrary, spontaneous division succeeds in animals, a thousand, nay, a million times exceeding the inhabitants of infusions in size; of which the parts and proportions being visible to the naked eye, contribute to the dissipation of doubts, and display in detail the progress of regeneration. Besides, the severed portion, condemned to quiescence, and destitute of alimentary organs, survives independent of the mutilated trunk, until their evolution follows by the regular and gradual operation of

A846    Beagle Library:     Dalyell, Thomas. 1814. Observations on some interesting phenomena in animal physiology, exhibited by several species of Planariae. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable.   Text

. Naturalists, who take these animals indiscriminately from their native abodes, may therefore find discrepancies, resulting from a state of abstinence; and variations still more conspicuous may appear, from the unequal evolution of nascent parts. But experience will speedily inculcate, where, after passing all the successive stages, perfection at length is gained. Nevertheless, the size is somewhat less than life, because Planari always decline in a state of confinement. The name of any species distinctly

A774.02    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 2.   Text

these it differs chiefly in the want of Albumen and greater evolution of its Embryo. Jussieu has combined Rhizophora and Bruguiera with Loranthus and Viscum, neglecting some very obvious, and, as they appear to me, important differences in the flower, and probably never having had an opportunity of comparing the very distinct structures of their ovaria; the affinity too of Rhizophore to Cunoniace is unquestionable, and it will hardly be proposed to unite both these tribes with Loranthus, which I

A793.3    Beagle Library:     Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 3.   Text

evolution of the f tus, as from microscopical observations it appears that they areb, if the teeth, horns, and other parts, c. to be acquired in his progress to that state are already in him in their embryos, we may also conclude that the butterfly and its organs, c. are all in the newly-hatched caterpillar. Again, if the blossom and its envelopes are contained in the gemma, the bulb, c. where they have been discoveredc, it follows analogically that the butterfly and its integuments all preexist in

A793.3    Beagle Library:     Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 3.   Text

toothc. You will admire the wisdom of this admirable contrivance, when you reflect that these larv are not fitted to pursue their prey with rapidity, like most predaceous animals; but that they steal upon them, as De Geer observesd, as a cat does upon a bird, very slowly, and as if they counted their steps; and then, by a sudden evolution of this machine, take them as it were by surprise, when they think themselves safe. De Geer says, it is very difficult for other insects to elude their attacks

A767.08    Beagle Library:     Anon. 1816-30. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Par plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi. 60 vols (and 8 vols plates). Strasbourg: F.G. Levrault. vol. 8.   Text   PDF

; que de ce trou partent immédiatement cinq spirales qui sont coupées un peu après par un profond sillon, marque restante du point d'insertion de ce qu'on a nommé les cinq stigmates. Les spirales continuent ensuite leur évolution autour de la gyrogonite, et lui ont fait donner ce nom par M. de Lamarck qui croyoit voir en eux un genre de coquille. Des fruits du chara vulgaris ont été examinés par nous, et ilous avons reconnu non-seulement les faits ci-dessus, mais encore que ce qu'on nomme

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

activity and zeal for our service. As no ship could with propriety venture near us to assist in turning the Esk over, on account of the hazardous position of the ice around her, we had no other means of performing this singular evolution than by attaching purchases to the ice from the ship. We proceeded as follows: A new hawser of 9 inches circumference, was taken under the ship's bottom, the end clenched to the main-mast, and the [page] 45

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

eastward (wind at north), the distance of about two miles; but in attempting to wear and return, the ship, instead of performing the evolution, scudded a considerable distance to leeward, and was then reached out to sea; thus leaving fourteen of her crew to a fate the most dreadful, the fulfilment of which seemed almost inevitable. The temperature of the air was 15 or 16 of Fahr. when these poor wretches were left upon a detached piece of ice, of no considerable magnitude, without food, without

A731.02    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 2.   Text

could see no termination. The Mars of Whitby, and another vessel, which closely followed us as we penetrated the exterior of the ice, being in better trim than the Esk, performed the evolution with ease, and were in a few minutes out of sight. In this dreadful situation, we lay beating against the opposing ice, with terrible force, during eight successive hours; all which time, I was rocked, with no agreeable feeling whatever to console me, at the top-gallant-mast-head, directing the

A755    Beagle Library:     DeCandolle, Augustin Pyramus and Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim. 1821. Elements of the philosophy of plants: containing the principles of scientific botany, nomenclature, theory of classification, phytography; anatomy, chemistry, physiology, geography, and diseases of plants: with a history of the science and practical illustrations. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and London: T. Cadell.   Text

shewn, that in the Naiad and in some other families, the thickened cotyledonous end of the germ, and, in the Palm and Junce , the lateral tubercles, furnish the apparatus, by the help of which the further evolution of the embryon takes place. In the Scitamine and in the Grasses, the vitellus or the scutellum are the organs by which the sap, when prepared, is conducted to the embryon, and by which its evolution is favoured. We must here also, as in most of the lower families, take into account the