The Victorian Naturalist, Volum 2Field Naturalists Club of Victoria., 1886 |
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A. H. S. LUCAS AGENTS FOR VICTORIA Annual Subscription Australia BAGE Ballarat Baron von Mueller basalt beautiful Beenak C. A. TOPP camp Cave Club of Victoria cockatoo COGHILL coleoptera collection colony creek crow Darwin Distributed Tasmania DOBSON Dundas eggs Established 1862 Etym Eucalypts excursion Exhibition of Specimens F. G. A. BARNARD F. M. Campbell feet ferns Field Naturalists Flora Flowers September fossils French Fries fungi G. R. HILL genus geological Grampian granite honey-eater hymenium inches insects J. H. GATLIFF J. J. Halley Labellum Lal Lal lepidoptera Lilydale Little Collins Street magpie Melbourne miles mountain Museum native nest North observers obtained orchids paper plants post free Pterostylis Queensland ranges River rock Royal Society's Hall sand sandstone sandy scrub Secretary sepals Silurian SIMSON South Wales species Students Compound Achromatic T. A. FORBES-LEITH Tachylite Tasmania Topp tree Vern Victorian Naturalist Wilson's Promontory Yanakie Zealand
Passatges populars
Pàgina 6 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: 'Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee.' 'Come, wander with me,' she said, 'Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.' And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Pàgina 5 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Pàgina 21 - Farewell, Australia ! you are a rising child, and doubtless some day will reign a great «• princess in the South : but you are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect I leave your shores without sorrow or regret...
Pàgina 5 - Let them make it disgraceful for men to be ignorant, and ignorance will vanish, and that part of their empire founded upon mental improvement will be strengthened and exalted by time, will be untouched by age, will be immortal in its youth.
Pàgina 18 - ... in South America. My first feeling was to congratulate myself that I was born an Englishman. Upon seeing more of the town afterwards, perhaps my admiration fell a little ; but yet it is a fine town. The streets are regular, broad, clean, and kept in excellent order; the houses are of a good size, and the shops well furnished.
Pàgina 5 - ... of science which at once tend to exalt the understanding and purify the heart. ' The leisure of the higher female classes is so great, and their influence in society so strong, that it is almost a duty that they should endeavour to awaken and keep alive a love of improvement and instruction.
Pàgina 4 - The happy home is the intelligent one, where each member communicates sometliing to the common stock of thought and knowledge, and where the family does not consist of an ill-assorted aggregation of babies great and small, dependent for their amusement upon some rattle of frivolity, or the chance of a stranger tickling them with a fashionable straw. Of such happy homes there are thousands in our country, and we say of their possessors,
Pàgina 12 - The true end of science is to enrich human life with useful arts and inventions.
Pàgina 21 - We stayed there eight days ; and we did not during our voyage pass a more dull and uninteresting time. The country, viewed from an eminence, appears a woody plain, with here and there rounded and partly bare hills of granite protruding. One day I went out with a party, in hopes of seeing a kangaroo hunt, and walked over a good many miles of country. Everywhere we found the soil sandy, and very poor...
Pàgina 30 - But where there is water which it is not desirable to exhaust, as in a good well, it will be wise to put the eucalyptus very far away. The owner of Bay Island Farm, Alameda County, recently found a curious root-formation of the eucalyptus in I the bottom of his well, about sixteen feet below the surface.