It is a very prevalent, but erroneous, impression, that savage and half-civilised people have an accurate knowledge of objects of natural history, and a uniform nomenclature for them.
In some cases, though the symbolism is based upon quite erroneous notions concerning natural history, and is so far fantastic, it is not devoid of charm.
There needed no less an event, as I have told you before, than the revolution of 1830 in France to induce the big-wigs of education to sacrifice two hours per week in one class to the study of natural history.
There are but two sorts, and both of them are natives of Australia, which is, as you may have heard, the land of the wonderful in natural history, and their existence was unknown to the learned men of Europe till within the last sixty years.
The precise age at which the interest of a young mind can be turned towards this practical branch of natural history is an open question, and not worth disputing about.
White's paper in the "Annals of Natural History" volume 7 page 472.
To a person fond of natural history, such a day as this brings with it a deeper pleasure than he can ever hope to experience again.
One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp.
When a boy, he was attracted to the subject of natural history by the sight of a volume of Buffon which accidentally fell in his way.
Notwithstanding the great results achieved by him in natural history, Buffon, when a youth, was regarded as of mediocre talents.
Richard Owen, the Newton of Natural History, began life as a midshipman, and did not enter upon the line of scientific research in which he has since become so distinguished, until comparatively late in life.
While still at school, one of his teachers made him a present of 'Linnaeus's System of Nature;' and for more than ten years this constituted his library of natural history.
The sailor could rely upon Herbert; the young boy was well up in natural history, and always had had quite a passion for the science.
It is a 'cycas revoluta,' of which I have a picture in our dictionary of Natural History!
Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen.
This resemblance is one of the most singular things in natural history.
There was nothing in the room that was alive, except the dainty owner, but it seemed to be a museum of natural history.
She was very fond of reading, and had a passion for the little prints and engravings of "foreign views," which she wove into her realm of natural history.
On Thalassicolla, a new zoophyte, in the "Annals of Natural History.
What do you think of my looking out for a Professorship of Natural History at Toronto?
For all through the summer he was away from London, engaged upon the summer course of lectures on Natural History at Edinburgh.
The new Governor of Ceylon is a friend of mine, and is proposing to set up a Natural History Museum in Ceylon.
People are touchy about social distinctions, which no doubt are often invidious and quite arbitrary and accidental, but which it is impossible to avoid recognizing as facts of natural history.
I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description.
The young man makes every effort to ascertain the cause of its shrinking; invokes the aid of the physicist, the chemist, the student of natural history, but all in vain.
It is, I suppose, as difficult and important a matter to be investigated as often comes before a student of natural history.
I redeemed that pledge by publishing, in the January number of the 'Natural History Review' for 1861, an article wherein the truth of the three following propositions was fully demonstrated (l.
Patience was only too delighted, and took her into her museum of natural history, art, religion, and vegetation.
If she had been free to indulge her own taste, she would have gone far in natural history, as was evident from her mastery of botany and her interest in birds.
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