A curved, usually wooden device which is thrown. A boomerang spins as it flies through the air, and…
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South…
This illustration shows the invasion of Kansas during the controversial period of time with free and…
A bridge which may be drawn up or let down to admit or hinder communication, or to leave a transverse…
A fish with a blunt snout and fins free of spines. Color is uniformly blueish above without dark bands…
"The Pyralidina are a group of small moths readily distinguished by their long slender bodies and large…
"The Pyralidina are a group of small moths readily distinguished by their long slender bodies and large…
"The Pyralidina are a group of small moths readily distinguished by their long slender bodies and large…
"The Pyralidina are a group of small moths readily distinguished by their long slender bodies and large…
"The Pyralidina are a group of small moths readily distinguished by their long slender bodies and large…
"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…
"The instrument is supported on a strong tripod, fitted with levelling screws; to this tripod is fixed…
A musical instrument consisting essentially of one or more graduated sets of smll free reeds of metal,…
"Muscular cells of medusae (Lizzia). The uppermost is a purely muscular cell from the sub-umbrella;…
"A, a hydriform person giving rise to medusiform persons by budding from the margin of the disc; B,…
"Diagram of a colony of Campanularia, showing four forms of persons. A, portion of a fixed colony; a,…
"a, the osseous septum grooved for the passage of the cochlear nerve b, which terminates by a free end…
"A glass tube about 33 inches in length, open at one end, is completely filled with mercury, and being…
"Four stages in the development of the trilobite Agnostus nudus. A, Youngest stage with no mesosomatic…
"Five stages in the development of the trilobite Sao hirsuta. A, Youngest stage. B, Older stage with…
"Comparison of the sixth prosomatic limb of a recent scorpion (B), of Palaeophonus (C), and of Limulus…
"Road-racer. A full roadster would have the handles a little higher relatively to the saddle, and would…
"A ball-bearing hub with outward cups. The hub-shell H is turned out of mild steel, and the cups C are…
"Stevenson's louvre-boarded box for the thermometers, which is now very widely used for temperature…
Pistil of a Sandwort, with vertical and transverse section of the ovary: free central placenta.
The females deposit their eggs, which are small, oval, and black, on twigs and bark in the autumn; the…
The females deposit their eggs, which are small, oval, and black, on twigs and bark in the autumn; the…
Three suspended concentric circles free to move independently of each other at right angles.
A simple complete joint, one type of movable articulation. The synovial membrane is represented by dotted…
The larynx as seen by means of the laryngoscope in different conditions of the glottis. Labels: A, while…
Ciliated epithelium from the human trachea, highly magnified. Labels: a, large ciliated cell; d, cell,…
"Grasp one end of a straight spring made of hickory or steel in one end of a vise, as shown. Pluck the…
"In a body free to move, the center of gravity will lie in a vertical plumb-line drawn through the point…
"The vessel a is fitted with a wooden bock of the same size as, and free to move in, the cylinder; the…
Torso of the Statue known as Venus of Melos (left) and New York Fashion, 1898 (right). "Since abdomen…
Torso of the Statue known as Venus of Melos (left) and New York Fashion, 1898 (right). "Since abdomen…
The larynx viewed from its pharyngeal opening. The back wall of the pharynx has been divided and its…
Meibomian glands (glandulae tarsales), which are sebaceous glands embedded in grooves in the inner surface…
The Organ of Corti (organon spirale), also known as the Papilla Spiralis. It is situated on the inner…
The peritoneum is a large serous membrane, which forms in the male a closed sac, the parietal layer…