Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society (founded April 9th, 1864), for the Year Ending ... |
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Almack Amsteg animals April 19 April 23 arvensis Bedwyn birds brasses British bud June C. M. Bull Chiseldon coins collection Committee Common ditto donations E. C. Sewell E. H. Carr eggs F. J. H. Jenkinson falcon feet fish flower full bud full fl G. H. Dawson glacier H. M. Hilton half-year hawk Honorary Members insect J. B. Gilmore J. B. Oakeley J. F. Bright J. W. Parrington June 14 June 20 larva larvæ leaf Librarian Lockeridge March Marlborough College Meadow Pipit MEETING HELD miles Monumental Brasses Moths Museum Natural History nest notice observed Orchis pass pigeons plants pratense Preshute PRESIDENT exhibited reign Report river rock Roman salmon Savernake Savernake Forest Secretary seed skin snow Society Song Thrush species specimens stuffed swallow T. A. Preston taken Thurn tree Villa visitors vulgaris Warbler White-tailed Eagle Wood young
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Side 25 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?— God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Side 41 - I was hunting a young pointer, the dog ran on a brood of very small partridges: the old bird cried, fluttered, and ran tumbling along just before the dog's nose till she had drawn him to a considerable distance, when she took wing, and flew still...
Side 24 - ... even to the borders of cultivation. The very huts of the peasantry are sometimes invaded by this moving ice; and many persons now living have seen the full ears of corn touching the glacier, or gathered ripe cherries from the tree with one foot standing on the ice.
Side 41 - On the approach of our boats towards the ice, they all took their cubs under their fins, and endeavoured to escape with them into the sea. Several whose young were killed and wounded, and were left floating on the surface, rose again and carried them down, sometimes just as our people were going to take them into the boat ; and they might be traced bearing them to a great distance through the water, which was coloured with their blood. We...
Side 41 - Th' unfeeling school-boy. Hence, around the head Of wandering swain, the white-wing'd plover wheels Her sounding flight, and then directly on In long excursion skims the level lawn, To tempt him from her nest. The...
Side 14 - If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Side 41 - ... at times above the surface, as if for air, and again diving under it with a dreadful bellowing. The female, in particular, whose young had been destroyed, and taken into the boat, became so enraged, that she attacked the cutter, and struck her two tusks through the bottom of it.
Side 42 - ... snake, that was lying with outstretched neck and fiery eyes, gazing steadily at the poor animal. The agony of the bird was so great that it was deprived of the power of moving away, and when one of the party killed the snake, it...
Side 53 - Silurian series), about ninety feet thick, beneath which lie soft shales of equal thickness, continually undermined by the action of the spray, which rises from the pool into which so large a body of water is projected, and is driven violently by gusts of wind against the base of the precipice. In consequence of this action, and that of frost, the shale disintegrates and crumbles away, and portions of the incumbent rock overhang 40 feet, and often when unsupported tumble down, so that the Falls do...
Side 47 - ... a kind of paralytic affection of the limbs which generally ends fatally — attacked some black cattle belonging to the master of the house ; some died others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman...