The male has a deep lustrous steel blue and black bill. The female is greenish brown and glossed with…
"The Sternoxi include the Metallic Beetles, Buprestidae the most gorgeous of the coleopterous families.…
"The Sternoxi include the Metallic Beetles, Buprestidae the most gorgeous of the coleopterous families.…
"A black insect, with brilliant metallic blue or purple reflections on the under side, and well known…
"A black insect, with brilliant metallic blue or purple reflections on the under side, and well known…
"A black insect, with brilliant metallic blue or purple reflections on the under side, and well known…
A beautiful bird of a rich yellow color, passing by degrees through olivaceous tints on te rump, wings,…
A sovereign crown of Egypt, composed of the tall pointed miter, or white crown, of southern Egypt, combined…
"The cross of the Danisn order of the Dannebrog, a white cross surmounting a red one, with the royal…
A bird which nests in holes in the ground. About 12inches long, of a blackish color above, white below,…
Three examples of the medieval method of putting on the amice. The amice is a liturgical vestment used…
"A genus of carnivorous mammals belonging to the Viverridae or family of civets. It contains six species,…
"In China and the warmer parts of Japan a fish extremely similar to the Crucian carp of Europe is of…
An instrument which serves to transform radiant energy into mechanical work. Have 4 vanes, with one…
A small fringilline bird. The male has a crimson poll, a rosy red breast, and the plumage streaked with…
"The name given by the Greeks and Romans to the plants sometimes called Brancursine, of which it is…
"The long white linen vestment worn in early times by all ecclesiastics at divine service. It differed…
"Chrysalids: a, Orange-tip Butterfly; b, Black-veined White Butterfly; a, Swallow-tailed Butterfly;…
"A fish of the family Cyprinidae, of the same genus with the roach, dace, bleak and minnow. The color…
"A name given to many plants, of which the foliage has a pungent, mustard-like taste, and is used as…
An Australian bird of paradise. It is usually 12 inches long with a wing span of 6 inches. Mostly black…
A small bird having grey and brown upper parts with small black and white spots. Pale grey under parts…
An Australian parrot. Usually consisting of bright colors such as scarlet, green, blue, yellow, and…
"Drawing from tlife of the Italian scorpion Euscorpius italicus, Herbst, holding a blue-bottle fly with…
Cross section of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (historically Constantinople). The Greek name Hagia Sophia…
"An optical instrument employed for exhibiting the images of objects in their forms and colors, so that…
"A genus of order Piperaceae. The Piper nigrum, which furnishes the black pepper of commerse, is a native…
"Palmer, Erastus Dow, sculptor, born in Onondaga county, New York, in 1817; died in 1904. Among his…
"Dormoy's rabble differs from others of this class in being worked by rotation like a hair-brushing…
"Dormoy's rabble differs from others of this class in being worked by rotation like a hair-brushing…
"Botanically Jasminum, a genus of shrubs or climbers constituting the principal part of the natural…
"Camera obscura strictly signifies a darkened chamber, because the room must be darkened, in order to…
"Camera obscura strictly signifies a darkened chamber, because the room must be darkened, in order to…
"Solar Spectrum.—If a ray, proceeding from the sun, be admitted into a darkened chamber, through…
"Sea anemone dissected; c, tentacles; d, mouth; e, stomach; white lines above k, the mesenteries." —Davison,…
Ailuropus Melanoleucus. "A. melanoleucus, discovered by Pere David in 1869, in the most inaccessible…
"Stevenson's louvre-boarded box for the thermometers, which is now very widely used for temperature…
A white or brown arthropoda. Has a pair of cirri, which form a net used to scoop food particles out…
Diagram of nervous system of Crania; from the dorsal side. The nerves running to the dorsal parts are…
Pieris Protodice, a butterfly that becomes more common and assists its imported relative in making havoc…
Pieris Protodice, a butterfly that becomes more common and assists its imported relative in making havoc…
Pieris Protodice, a butterfly that becomes more common and assists its imported relative in making havoc…