 | 1918 - 436 pages
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 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pages
...its head upon the earth beside the bird without the smallest motion as if to rest itself, for a fall hour, when it again crept under the earth. The next...another day the work was completed and the bird covered. — M. Gleditsch continued to add other small dead animals, which were all sooner or later buried ;... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pages
...crept under the earth. The next day in the morning the bird was an inch and a half under ground, nnd the trench remained open the whole day, the corpse...another day the work was completed and the bird covered. — M. Gleditsch continued to add other small dead animals, which were all sooner or later buried ;... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 pages
...away, continued the work alone for five hours. He lifted up the bird by placing his back under it, changed its place, turned it, and arranged it in the...day the work was completed, and the bird covered. M. Gleditch continued to add other small dead animals, which were all sooner or later buried; and the... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 440 pages
...male, having driven the female away, continued the work alone for five hours. He lifted up the bird, changed its place, turned it and arranged it in the...day the work was completed, and the bird covered. M. Gleditsch continued to add other small dead animals, which were all sooner or later buried ; and... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...male, having driven the female away, continued the work alone for five hours. He lifted up the bird, changed its place, turned it and arranged it in the...day the work was completed, and the bird covered. M. Gleditsch continued to add other small dead animals, which were all sooner or Liter buried ; and... | |
 | 1830 - 436 pages
...itself, for а full hour, when it again crept under the earth. The next day, in the morning, the hird was an inch and a half under ground, and the trench...whole day, the corpse seeming as if laid out upon a hier, surrounded with a rampart of mould. In the evening it had sunk half an inch lower, and in another... | |
 | 1832 - 368 pages
...head upon the earth beside the bird, without the smallest motion, as if to rest itself, for a lull hour, when it again crept under the earth. The next...sunk half an inch lower; and in another day the work «as completed and the bird covered. M. GlediUch continued 4o add other small dead animals, which were... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1832 - 696 pages
...when it again crept under the earth. The next day in the morning the bird was an inch VOL. xiv. 2 E and a half under ground, and the trench remained open...day the work was completed, and the bird covered. M. Gleditsh continued to add other small dead animals, which were all sooner or later buried ; and... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...earth beside the bird, without the smallest motion, as if to rest himself, for a full hour, when he again crept under the earth. The next day, in the...day, the work was completed and the bird covered. From a number of experiments conducted in this way, he found that in fifty days four beetles had interrred,... | |
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At length, apparently wearied with this uninterrupted labour, it came forth, and leaned its head upon the earth beside the bird without the smallest motion, as if to rest itself, for a full hour, when it again crept under the earth. The next day, in the... 
