Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ZOOLOGICAL CLUB.- The last meeting of the year will be held tonight, at the Museum. Doors open, 7.15 to 7.30. Short papers on (1) Maturation of the egg; (2) Limb-buds in reptiles; (3) Symbiosis between rotifers and Hepatics...
...CUMMINGS, Sec'y.THE Zoological Club will meet tonight in room 3. fourth floor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Doors open from 7.15 to 7.30. Paper by Mr. C. H. Eigenmann, "Egg membranes in Fishes...
...fires for victories of late years. Princeton seems to have started, and only started, back to a respectable showing in track athletics. The bottom was reached last year. This year one second, and a first, only won gloriously to be lost unaccountably, may prove a nest egg from which to hatch a cup some day. Princeton luck is inexplicable. We win and we lose, and no one knows why we win or why we lose. In college athletics fortune favors whom she favors, and that is all there...
There is no stage in which butterflies may not pass the winter, they can hibernate either as eggs as caterpillars, chrysalids, or in the winged condition. Butterflies do not lay caterpillars, as thought by some. Metamorphoses from egg to adult take place at least once a year; some species go through as many as eight generations in a year. Mimickry is not uncommon among butterflies. There is a species which is noxious in taste to birds; their form is mimicked in color by a second form, and this one is again mimicked by a third species. Other forms of mimicry...
...first three innings, the score standing 15 to 9 against them. Lowell is blanked in the fourth, and Harvard tallies one. Lowell piles up four in runs in the fifth, but Harvard makes eight, on heavy hitting; score, 19 to 18 in favor of Lowell. Lowell finds a goose-egg in the sixth, and Harvard scores two runs amid such "deafening applause" that the umpire calls for silence; score, 20 to 19 in favor of Harvard. "Ether-rending applause, and sun-darkening cloud of flying beavers." Lowell scores two runs and Harvard five; score, 25 to 21. In this inning...