10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYDROPHANOUS»
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hydrophanous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hydrophanous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Shell pale yellow brown, irregularly covered with a very pale hydrophanous
epidermis ; circumference of the columella nearly black ; one pale brown band
anterior to the circumference of the shell ; apex white. Found on leaves of trees
near ...
Zoological Society of London, 1841
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Shell light brown, with a. dull hydrophanous epidermis, paler toward the apex,
which is dark mahogany brown; circumference of the columella nearly black; two
broad, very dark brown bands, one of which is placed at the circumference of the
...
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Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of ...
Shell imperforated, subglobose, rather thick, smooth, variously coloured,
generally covered -with a hydrophanous epidermis ; spire very obtuse ; whorls
five, rather convex, the last ventricose ; columella slanting, rather broad, flat ;
aperture ...
Hydrophanous Opal. Achates unguium colore^ in aere opacus ; aqua, per-
lucens ; of Wallerius. Hydrophanous Opal, of Saxony. Silex .... 93,12 Alu mine . . .
1,62 Volatile matter . 5,26 100,00 Klapr. Some varieties of the opaque opal have
the ...
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Physical and chemical essays
In what Form Siliceous Earth occurs in the Mineral Kingdom — — 54 XIV. Of the
Hydrophanous Stone. P- 57- Heu prodigio/a ingenia, quot modis auximut pretia
rerum. Plinius. § I . Peculiar Property of the Hydrophanous Stone page 57 2. 7#<
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Torbern Bergman, Thomas Beddoes, 1784
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Physical and chemical essays; tr. by E. Cullen
In what Form Siliceous Earth occurs in the Mineral Kingdom - — 56 XIV. Of the
Hydrophanous Stone. p. 58 Heu prodigiofa ingenia, quot modis auximus pretia
rerum. Plinius. § I. Peculiar Property of the Hydrophanous Stone. page 58 2.
Torbern Olof Bergman, 1788
7
New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land, and Freshwater Shells
Colour uniformly brown, without a hydrophanous pattern, but with a spiral band of
dark brown on the upper part of the base. Sculpture of closely spaced narrow
membranous axials bearing short bristles. Height 7.6-10.1 mm.; width 3.9-4.9 mm
.
Arthur William Baden Powell, 1979
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Organic Remains of a Former World: The fossil zoophytes
In this state they: possessed a considerable degree of transparency, which they
rapidly lost, as the water evaporated: so that when dry, they were completely
opaque, and of a chalky whiteness. From their possessing this hydrophanous
quality ...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
The disappearance of the white pattern by immersion in water or any other
evaporable fluid, and its subsequent reappearance when the shell is dry, are
phenomena perfectly analogous to those of hydrophanous opal, tabu- sheer, and
other ...
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The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany ...
Of a dark chestnut-brown colour, with the same arrangement of colour as the last,
but covered with a thickish, brown, opake, hydrophanous epidermis. From Puerto
Galero. I am compelled to regard as a variety of this species a shell which Mr.
