 | Joseph Banks - 1896 - 546 Seiten
...of natural history : they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing...which, put into the water, you can see the bottom at a great depth, where it is clear. They have many cases of bottles with ground stoppers, of several... | |
 | Joseph Banks - 1896 - 544 Seiten
...sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooka for coral fishing ; they have even a curious contrivance...which, put into the water, you can see the bottom at a great depth, where it is clear. They have many cases of bottles with ground stoppers, of several... | |
 | Arthur Kitson - 1907 - 596 Seiten
...of Natural History : they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing...which, put into the water, you can see the bottom at a great depth, where it is clear. They have many cases of bottles with ground stoppers, of several... | |
 | Anne Salmond - 1992 - 488 Seiten
...of Natural History; they have all sorts of machines tor catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing,...which, put into the water, you can see the bottom at a great depth, when it is clear ... in short Solander assured me this expedition would cost Mr Banks... | |
 | Elizabeth Buck - 2010 - 253 Seiten
...of Natural History; they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing;...see the bottom to a great depth, where it is clear. . . . Besides, there are many people whose sole business it is to attend them for this very purpose.... | |
 | Hugh Raffles - 2002 - 324 Seiten
...of Natural History; they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing;...a great depth, where it is clear. . . . They have two painters and draughtsmen, several volunteers who have a tolerable notion of Natural History, in... | |
 | Patricia Fara - 2003 - 188 Seiten
...have got a fine Library [and] all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing,...which, put into the water, you can see the bottom at a great depth.' And, he concluded unctuously to gratify Linnaeus, 'All this is owing to you and... | |
 | Sujit Sivasundaram - 2005 - 264 Seiten
...natural historian: 'they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing,...which, put into the water, you can see the bottom at a great depth, where it is clear'. 9 All the instruments, the natural historians and artists came... | |
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They have got a fine library of Natural History : they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing ; they have even a curious contrivance of a telescope, by which, put... 