"Have you ever watched an electric bulb fade away when the current is failing?"

Having received from the Admiralty the funds necessary for immediate operations, I have commenced with the photographic registers of the thermometers, dry-bulb and wet-bulb, from 1848 to 1868.Our chronometer-room contains at present 219 chronometers, including 37 chronometers which have been placed here by chronometer-makers as competing for the honorary reputation

From a distance, they looked pretty much like ordinary light bulbs.

And now, with Van Baerle out of the house as a prisoner, Boxtel in the dead of night broke into his neighbour's house, to secure the priceless bulbs of the black tulip.

Scillas (Squills).Very useful spring-flowering bulbs.

When the air is saturated, a dry bulb and a wet bulb will read alike.

" "Whatever we plant for the summer yellow border we must have the yellow spring bulbs right behind itjonquils and daffodils and yellow tulips and crocuses.

I've got pink tulip bulbs in the ground now and there are some pink flowering shrubsweigelia and flowering almondalready there against the lattice of the veranda.

The pitiless sun, the salt tides drunk up to their spongy bulbs, and their glory passedthey would be matted refuse on the shores and a man could trample them.

Even that afternoon as Joe stood at the high wall-desk near the door, under a golden bulb of light, figuring on contracts with Marty Briggs, he felt his singular happiness of belonging.

Immediately the Chinaman moved round her chair and, employing both hands, in one instant switched off the hooded bulb and reilluminated the lamp of brass.

" It was hyacinth bulbs, in glass vases, which had excited Dotty's disgust.

as he came to the spot where he had planted the bare root bulbs, he saw that from them had sprung flourishing green stalks, which bore beautiful flowers with silver white leaves.

" Our closing extract is from "Anecdotes of South African Baboons," by Thomas Pringle, Esq.: "It is the practice of these animals to descend from their rocky fastnesses in order to enjoy themselves on the banks of the mountain rivulets, and to feed on the nutritious bulbs which grow in the fertile valley ground.

It extends from the inner to the outer bulbs of the plantar cushion, and is bounded above by the perioplic ring, and below by the laminæ.

Craeke arrived just when Van Baerle was nursing his precious bulbsthe bulbs of the black tulipand his sudden entrance rudely disturbed the tulip-grower.

Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads,long, oval, like some seaweed bulbs, each an amulet.

A police sergeant sat behind a railing, writing at a low desk, a low-hanging, green-shaded electric bulb above him.

One full-sized bulb is sufficient for a 6-in.

The great lamp of brass was dark, and there was no other light than a solitary bulb, whose hooded rays were concentrated upon the crystal ball, so that the latter shone with a dead-white glare, somehow baleful, like an elfin moon deeply lost in a sea of sombre enchantment.

They are increased by the tiny bulbs which form at the axis of the leaves of the flower-stem.

This did not displease Muskwa, who made his breakfast of the dog-tooth violet bulbs.

So in life also, if there be given to you instead of a little bulb and a shell a wife and child, there will be nothing to prevent (you from taking them).

No, not quite silence, for past his ear the splendid hyacinths drifted with a musical creaking, leaf on leaf, the buoyant bulbs brushing each other.

As we waited in the light of the dim yellow bulbs threaded from the ceiling of the big bare upper front room of Liberty Hall, Susan Mitchell told me of "the chivalrous woman."