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In a more extreme case of book borrowing delinquency, an Australian library exercised leniency after a first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "Insectivorous Plants" was returned 122 years late.
Library Sends Cops To 5-Year-Old's House For Overdue Books (VIDEO) 2012
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Rabbits, or the Insectivorous Moles and Hedgehogs, or the Bats, could claim our ‘Homo’, as one of themselves.
Essays 2007
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The excitement attendant upon Darwin's book Insectivorous Plants quite possibly provided the inspiration for Carle Liche to fabricate the discovery of an 8-foot-tall "man-eating tree of Madagascar" in 1878.
Double mystery. bradamant 2006
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Insectivorous plants am common enough in Australia; but the
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Stem: Insectivorous. the parachute types of the flying squirrels and phalangers, or into the true flying types of the bats ....
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Insectivorous birds have only to open their mouths to have them filled.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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LemuridæA group of four-handed animals, distinct from the monkeys and approaching the Insectivorous Quadrupeds in some of their characters and habits.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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Darwin's luminous account of these two species alone, which occupies more than three hundred absorbingly interesting pages of his "Insectivorous Plants," should be read by every one interested in these freaks of nature.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Insectivorous plants am common enough in Australia; but the "Ahm-moo," tree does not appear to make use of the carcases of its victims, though it kills on an exceptionally extensive scale.
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_The Descent of Man_; _The Origin of Species_; _Insectivorous
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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