Organ
Organ, An Instrument Of Music. The Word Is Greek, Lyavor, Which Signifies Instrument Or Any Kind, And Is Very Appropriately Given, By Way Of Eminence, To This Incomparably The Grandest Among Musical Inntrumcnts. In The Short Abstract Of The History Of The Art, Given Under The Word Music, We Have ...
Organs
Organs Of Sensation. The Organs Of Sensation Exhibit Greater Varieties Than Those Of Motion. The Lowest Classes Of Animals, Zoo Phytes, And Pay/vs, Have No Visible Marks Of A Nervous System, Though It Is More Than Propable That They Are Capable Of Feeling, If Not Of Tasting. All The Classes ...
Organs
Organs Of Menem. Tun Organs Of Motion Differ Considerably In The Va Rious Classes Of Animals. In Many They Are As Distinct As In Man, And Much More Powerful In Proportion ; While In Others, Though The Phenomena Of Motion Are Very Apparent, The Organs By Which It Is Produced, ...
Organs Digestion The
Organs Digestion. The Organs Employed In The Digestion Of Aliments Are Numerous And Important. The Function Of Diges Tion Includes Several Operations, As Mastication, Or The Chewing Of The Food ; Deglutition, Or The Conveying Of It Into That Organ In Which Its Solution Is To Be Effected ; Chylification, ...
Organs_2
Organs Of Absorption. That Some Kind Of Absorption Takes Place In Ahnost That Some Kind Of Absorption Takes Place In Ahnost Every Class Of Animals With Which We Are Acquainted, There Can Be No Doubt ; But An Absorbent System Is Not Found In Several Of The Inferior Classes. The ...
Organs_3
Organs Of Reproduction. The Varieties In The Form, Structure, And Situation Of The Organs Of Reproduction In The Inferior Animals, Are So Numerous, And So Remarkable, That Linnxus Once Pro Posed To Extend To Animals The Sexual System, Which He Employed For The Classification Of Plants, And Was Deter Red ...
Origin
Origin Of All The Tropical Low Isles, Over The Whole South Sea." Captain Flinders, Gives The Following Interesting Ac Count Of The Formation Of Coral Islands, Particularly Of Half-way Island On The North Coast Of Terra Australis. Vol. Ii. P. 114, 115, 116. " This Little Island, Or Rather The ...
Oriollis
Oriollis, Lin.,,e4c. Oriole. Bill In The Form Of A Lengthened Cone, Horizontally Corn Pressed At The Base, And Sharp-edged, The Upper Mandible Surmounted By A Ridge, Notched At The Point ; Nostrils Ba Sal, Lateral, Naked, And Horizontally Pierced In A Large Membrane; Tarsus Shorter Than, Or Of The Same ...