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Excerpt from A Manual of Popular Physiology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Science of Life in Untechnical Language This work is not addressed to the man of Science, nor is it supposed that students proceeding to degrees in Medicine will devote much attention to it. There is, however, a large class, in which the author is happy to say he once ranked, that, although not professedly scientific, is glad to profit by the gleanings from the great...

Excerpt from Joe Wilson and His Mates Some carry their swags in the Great North-West, Where the bravest battle and die, And a few have gone their last long rest, And a few have said "Good-bye!" The coast grows dim, and it may be long Ere the Gums again I see, So I put my soul in a farewell song To the chaps who barracked for me. Their days are hard at the best of times, And their dreams are dreams of care - God bless them all for their ...

Excerpt from On the Track Of the stories in this volume many have already appeared in the columns of the Bulletin, Town and Country Journal, Freeman's Journal, and Australian Star (Sydney), and the West Australian and Western Mail (Perth), while several now appear in print for the first time. I wish to thank the editors of the papers mentioned for the right to republish in book form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds o...

Excerpt from While the Billy BoilsIN the absence of the author, who is now resident in Western Australia, it devolves upon us to make the customary acknowledgments to the various journals from which these stories are reprinted. Most of them first appeared in the Sydney Bulletin, a number of them in the Sydney Worker, and others in the New Zealand Mail, the New Zealand Times, Sydney Truth, the Brisbane Boomerang, the Maryborough Patriot, and Th...

Excerpt from Verses, Popular and Humorous My acknowledgments of the courtesy of the editors and proprietors of the newspapers in which most of these verses were first published are due and are gratefully discharged on the eve of my departure for England. Chief among them is the Sydney Bulletin, others are the Sydney Town and Country Journal, Freeman's Journal, and Truth, and the New Zealand Mail. A few new pieces are included in the collecti...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 6: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Historical Research at Home and AbroadThe leaves of bog mosses are very peculiar, and are Well known as an elegant microscopic object, those of the stem are more remote from each other than in mosses, and in all the species two complete Spirals contain five leaves (phyllotaxy a), their form is ovate or tongue - shaped, with th...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 13: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad Fro. L - Fragment of the chorion of the small human ovum with the abnormal embryo, showing the manner in which the villi arise by small roots, and also the precess of multiplication of nuclei by gammation. Magnified 465 diam. Fig. 2. - Various forms of the villi. Magnified about 6 di...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 7: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and AbroadHaving long felt assured that the ordinary coarse representations Of the markings on the battledore scales of butter¿ies were most imperfect, if not altogether erroneous, I last summer prepared a large number Of slides of these scales, from the wings of the common meadow-blue butter¿y (p...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 4: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad Gluten was next selected for experiment. A sample was carefully prepared from wheaten flour, and a portion was introduced into a cane sugar solution. The gluten at first floated on the surface of the liquid, but in a few days it became much disintegrated and subsided to the bottom of t...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 5: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad It is with the deepest grief that we have to announce that our President, the Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., is no more. On Monday morning, the 12th of December last, he passed from among us in the seventieth year of his age - passed with regret that, he should be ...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 18: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad The Brownian motion of minute particles in suspension in liquids, is a movement of oscillation and of vibration, in situ, that is quick, irregular, and continuous. We do not remark there either translation or locomotion properly so called. The orientation of the oscillatory motion pas...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 8: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad Male plants like the female, and more numerous, amentula short, clavate, purple with broadly ovate bracts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important h...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 12: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Records of Histological Research at Home and Abroad The description relates mainly to the convolutions of the convexity of the hemispheres of the cerebrum of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an impor...

Excerpt from The Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 14: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad For its examination a power of five or six hundred is desirable, although its general features may be studied with a 4/10ths objective. Its surface is studded with considerable regularity by minute, upstanding, firm elevations resembling cells, but apparently quite structureless. Bene...

Excerpt from The Popular Science Review, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects "What thou owest, O Rome, to the Neroes, " says Horace, in one of the most sublime of his Odes, "the River Metaurus and vanquished Hasdrnbal are witnesses, " and he had good reason for saying so, for the victory of Clandius Nero over Hannibal's troops was a decisive one. The tide of conquest was turned, and w...

Excerpt from And Other Songs My Army, O, My Army! My army, O, my army! The time I dreamed of comes! I want to see your colours, I want to hear your drums! I heard them in my boyhood when all men's hearts seemed cold, I heard them as a Young Man - and I am growing old! My army, O, my army! The signs are manifold! My army, O, my army! My army and my Queen! I used to sing your battle-songs when I was seventeen! They came to me from ages, they...

Excerpt from Children of the BushThey tramp in mateship side by side The Protestant and 'roman They call no biped lord or 'sir, ' And touch their hats to no man!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving t...

Excerpt from Triangles of Life: And Other StoriesLL Australia. All of the best you have seen or read, or remember of it, Of what has been written about it by its own sons and in Australia. And a timber-cutter's camp just within the blazing, blinding, humming, waving, Shimmering and pulsating great dusty and gritty heart of it. Tents about, seeming only not to blaze Off like so much paper, and bough cook's-shed at the junction Of two lanes Of p...

Excerpt from Popular VersesThe big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls ¿ew free.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections presen...

A collection of short stories by the celebrated Australian fiction writer and poet first published in 1901.