Real things in nature; a reading book of science for American boys and girls
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...one upon another make fine ridges like parallel lines and light shin-'ng on the ridges is scattered so as to make the rainbow colors. The colors are due to the ridges, as you can prove by tak...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...one upon another make fine ridges like parallel lines and light shin-'ng on the ridges is scattered so as to make the rainbow colors. The colors are due to the ridges, as you can prove by taking an impression of the inside of the shell in wax and noticing that the little ridges in the wax give the same rainbow colors. The Lobster.--The group of animals to which the lobster, the crab, and all insects belong, has the two sides of the body alike. The legs, jaws and so forth are arranged in pairs. The earthworm is made up of a number of rings, one ring like another. The arrangement of the starfish is five-fold; it has five arms. Man and the higher animals are built so that the right-hand and lefthand halves of their bodies are alike. The lobster has a heart which pumps its colorless blood through arteries. It breathes through gills near the roots of its eight walking legs. It has a liver, a stomach, muscles, eyes, ears, feelers. It can smell. It has a memory, too, for lobsters that have been caught, marked, and then set free again, have found their way back to their old home, several miles awav. The lobster sometimes has as many as 100,000 eggs. The natural color of its shell is dark green which becomes bright red when the animal is boiled for food. Once a year the lobster moults that is, it splits and discards its old shell and appears in a larger and softer shell that has been formed inside of the old one. The new shell soon hardens and the animal lives:nside of it for another year. Fi(J. 177. Tlit lady-crab (one-third of natural size). This is one of the swimming crabs and is good to eat Crabs.--The hermit-crab has no shell of its own but selects an empty sea-shell to live in, backs into it and carries its house about until the house becomes too small, when ...
Publisher | RareBooksClub.com |
Binding | Paperback (20 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 76 |
ISBN-10 | 1236253949 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1236253941 |
Publication Date | 05/19/2012 |
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