 | Mollusks - 1897 - 186 pages
...is not the only collection of shells. " The alcoves round the central hall, five on each side, are devoted to the Introductory or Elementary Morphological...plant life, and the terms used in describing them, all of which should be known before the systematic portion of the collection can be studied to advantage.... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1889 - 456 pages
...the hall are devoted to the Introductory or Elementary Morphological Collection (still incomplete) , 'designed to teach the most important points in the...plant life, and the terms used in describing them*. The W. side of the gallery round the hall contains a very interesting collection of birds with their... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - London (England) - 1889 - 480 pages
...the hall are devoted to the Introductory or Elementary Morphological Collection (still incomplete) , 'designed to teach the most important points in the...types of animal and plant life, and the terms used in deseribing them'. The W. side of the gallery round the hall contains a very interesting collection... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 594 pages
...pigeons, intermediate forms occurring in nature, albinism, etc. The bays or alcoves round the hall are devoted to the introductory or elementary Morphological...structure of the principal types of animal and plant life. In the centre of the hall is the skeleton of the cachalot or sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus),... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - London (England) - 1894 - 418 pages
...the hall are devoted to the Introductory or Elementary Morphological Collection (still incomplete) . 'designed to teach the most important points in the...principal types of animal and plant life, and the terms uaed in describing them'. The W. aide of the gallery round the hall contains a very interesting collection... | |
 | Hummingbirds - 1891 - 202 pages
...the opposite cond1tion, called melanism. The bays or alcoves round the hall, five on each side, are devoted to the introductory or elementary morphological...structure of the principal types of animal and plant life. This collection is only in its infancy but when completed, it is hoped that it may ultimately serve... | |
 | Biology - 1896 - 782 pages
...Collections, designed to teach, by the exhibition of carefully prepared examples, dissections and drawings, the most important points in the structure of the...principal types of animal and plant life, and the terms and characters used by naturalists in describing families, genera and species, and distinguishing one... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - London (England) - 1898 - 552 pages
...persons. 28. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. ductory or Elementary Morphological Collection (still incomplete), 'designed to teach the most important points in the...animal and plant life, and the terms used in describing them1. The bays to the left (W.) are devoted to the vertebrate animals, including man, while those... | |
 | British Museum (Natural History) - Natural history - 1906 - 142 pages
...Morphological Collection, designed to illustrate the more important points in the structure of certain types of animal and plant life, and the terms used in describing them. This has been called the " Index Museum," as it was thought at one time that it would form a sort of... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - London (England) - 1908 - 620 pages
...Collection (still incomplete), 'designed to teach the most important points in the structure of certain types of animal and plant life, and the terms used in describing them'. The bays to the left (W.) are devoted to the vertebrate animals, including man, while those to the... | |
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The alcoves round the hall are devoted to the Introductory or Elementary Morphological Collection (still incomplete) , 'designed to teach the most important points in the structure of the principal types of animal and plant life, and the terms used in... 