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Scientific amusements (1890)

Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 578

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Cage for j fine meshes prevented the little animals from escaping.We gave the tree-frogs flies for their food, and sometimesthey caught them with remarkable dexterity. I haveoften seen a frog when at liberty watching a fly, on which AN AQUARIUM. IS It pounces as a cat does on a bird. The… … Small aqnnrinm, with frogs ladder. particularly a case of catalepsy produced in a code. Iwill describe this remarkable experiment, certainly one ofthe most curious we ever performed. We place a cock on a table of dark colour, rest its i6 OPEN-AIR SCIENCE. beak on the surface, where it is firmly…

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