Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy Contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London ...

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Side xv - If we were capable of following the progress of increase of the number of the parts of the most perfect animal, as they first formed in succession, from the very first to its state of full perfection, we should probably be able to compare it with some one of the incomplete animals themselves, of every order of animals in the Creation, being at no stage different from some of the inferior orders...
Side 203 - Cockatoos, &c., when they are very fond of the person who feeds them, may likewise be observed to have the action of throwing up the food, and often do it. The cock pigeon, when he caresses the hen, performs the same kind of action as when he feeds his young ; but I do not know if at this time he throws up anything from the crop.
Side 182 - Friday, being the sth and 6th days of this instant March, 1673-4, was delivered of Four Children at one Birth, viz., three Sons and one Daughter, all born alive, lusty children, and perfect in every part, which lived 24 hours, and then dyed, all much about the same time, &c. Published by JP, Student in Physick. 4to. 1674.
Side 204 - Whatever may be the consistence of this substance, when just secreted, it most probably very soon coagulates into a granulated white curd, for in such a form I have always found it in the crop ; and if an old pigeon is killed just as the young ones are hatching, the crop will be found as above described, and in its cavity pieces of white curd mixed with some of the common food of the pigeon, such as barley, beans, &c.
Side 46 - ... commonly composed of those sides, or planes, two of the sides making one ; and they generally fall in between the bottoms of three cells of the opposite side ; but this is not .regular, it is only to be found where there is no external interruption. , As soon as a few combs are formed, the female bee begins laying of eggs. As far as ,I have been able to observe, the "queen is the only bee that propagates, though it is asserted .that the labourers do.
Side 150 - The uterus having been hardened in spirit, with the assistance of Mr. Clift, I examined the parts. The right ovarium had a small torn orifice upon the most prominent part of its external surface: •we slit it open in a longitudinal direction, in a line close to the edge of this orifice: the orifice was found to lead to a cavity filled up with coagulated blood, and surrounded by a yellowish or.
Side 204 - ... gestation. On comparing the state of the crop when the bird is not sitting, with its appearance during incubation, the difference is very remarkable.
Side 172 - ... making two or three close spiral turns upon themselves, they open at once into its spongy substance, without any diminution of size, and without passing beyond the surface as above described. The intention of these spiral turns would appear to be that of diminishing the force of the circulation...
Side 203 - ... are endowed with a similar power. The young pigeon, like the young quadruped, till it is capable of digesting the common food of its kind, is fed with a substance secreted for that purpose by the parent animal ; not as in the Mammalia, by the female alone, but also by the male ; which...
Side 59 - Thames in the spring, and in other rivers the beginning of summer, from the circumstance that it was calculated by two observers of the progress of the young eels at Kingston in 1832, that from sixteen to eighteen hundred passed a given point in the space of one minute of time.

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