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outside, and just touches

 
from pencilled jottings, which awaited the touch       121
outside, and just touches       348
 
such as the impact of rain-drops,
earth-vibrations,
wind, and the true sense of touch —
thigmotropic irritability
possessed by special organs...   1       170
 
when the perception of touch or contact is found       164
laid on edge and touching end to end       288
 
acting as levers or “stimulators,” and when touched mechanically       171-172
special papillae, — “touch-papillae”       172
 
nearly touching each other       58
open at the slightest touch   2       321
utmost —
the most touching       11
perhaps the crowning touch   3       13
 
as true and touching and expressive as either of them   4       332
The touch of the holy yew       51

 

  1. R. A. Robertson “The sense-organs of plants.” (Communicated Oct. 27, 1909) : 164-172
  2. Steward Archibald. “The weeds of a garden.” (Communicated Dec. 21, 1910) : 317-323
  3. ...to this great bird colony was given by the single pair of Peregrine Falcons which inhabited the island, and we look back on the day we located the eyrie as the red-letter one of our 1905 visit...
    ex J. C. Adam. “The Bird-Life of an Outer Island.” (Communicated Nov. 27, 1907) : 1-19
  4. The Rev. D. W. Wilson. “Burns and the song-birds of Scotland.” (Communicated Jan. 25, 1911) : 323-332

touches (some of, disordered) in
Transactions of the Edinburgh Field Naturalists’ and Microscopical Society 6 (1908-1911)
University of Minnesota copy, digitized June 27, 2013
Smithsonian copy (archive.org)
 

15 May 2017

tags:
birds; touch