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They wrought in wood and iron, they sang and they played and studied nature, out of a barrel, to be sure, that came twice a week from Long Island filled with "specimens"; but later on we took a hint from Chicago, and let the children gather their own specimens on excursions around the bay and suburbs of the city. That was a tremendous success.

Greythorpe said he would be glad to hear it, and they talked over the subject until they went to bed. The next afternoon was bright and mild, and soon after Mrs. Foster and her party arrived Challoner offered to show them his winter shrubbery. "I have lately planted a number of new specimens which you and Margaret have not seen," he said.

A few specimens may be obtained from the extreme limits of its range, or from a locality where it really is rare, and for years it may be almost unique in museum collections but eventually the proper locality may be visited and the animals found to be abundant. Civets, bears, foxes, and small cats were being used extensively for furs and pangolins could be purchased in the medicine shops.

But we are concerned with times less remote, with the vanishing of historic monuments, of noble specimens of architecture, and of the humble dwellings of the poor, the picturesque cottages by the wayside, which form such attractive features of the English landscape. We have only to look at the west end of St.

But his earlier style, that of the Fragment on Government, Plan of a Judicial Establishment, etc., is a model of liveliness and ease combined with fulness of matter, scarcely ever surpassed: and of this earlier style there were many striking specimens in the manuscripts on Evidence, all of which I endeavoured to preserve.

From this it will be seen that a very little mercury will suffice to develop fine proofs. I saw some of the impressions referred to above, and they were certainly well developed, and very superior specimens of our art. Removing the Coating. After the impression has been developed over the mercurial vapor, the next step is to remove the sensitive coating.

With regard to the collections intended to illustrate the physical constitution of the races it is more difficult to obtain instructive specimens, as the savage races are generally inclined to hold sacred all that relates to their dead; yet whenever an opportunity is afforded to obtain skulls of the natives of different parts of the world, it should be industriously improved, and good care taken to mark the skulls in such a way that their origin cannot be mistaken.

With his sharp nose, big spectacles and flapping black garments, the professor did look like a mammoth black crow. "Reminds me of the fox and the crow," said Dick, in a low voice, to his companions. "Only, in this case, the fox is a bull, and the piece of cheese is the bag of specimens," added Tom. They looked about helplessly.

The second strikes some people as one of the most charming specimens of the love-letter written neither in the violent delight that has violent end, nor in namby-pamby fashion. Sir, You say I abuse you; and Jane says you abuse me when you say you are not melancholy: which is to be believed? But now it cannot be; he goes on Monday or Tuesday at farthest.

"The shop was full; we had to wait a little before we could be served. "Next to me, as I stood at the counter with my companion, was a gaudily-dressed woman, looking at some handkerchiefs. The handkerchiefs were finely embroidered, but the smart lady was hard to please. She tumbled them up disdainfully in a heap, and asked for other specimens from the stock in the shop.