146 A GERMAN SCIENCE READER. 



L. DER ELEFANT. 



i. richten ... an, do great damage to the rice fields. 2. Am . . . leben, 

 they prefer to live. 3. sollen sie, they are said. 4. rachsuchtig und 

 grausam, revengeful and cruel. 



LI. DIE GEMEINE AUSTER. 



i. 1st durch . . . , depends upon the color. 2. bald bald, sometimes 

 sometimes. 3. Mit . . . werden, oyster beds covered with but little -water 

 are in danger of being left dry during a strong ebb-tide. 



LII. WUTKRANKHEIT. 



i. schwer . . ., differences hard to understand. 2. zur Folge, as a 

 result. 3. an ... leidet, suffers from a desire to bite. 4. wuterzeugend, 



productive of rabies. 



LIII. DIE WAHRE AUFGABE DER PHYSIOLOGIE. 



i. Himdertfaltig . . ., it has been repeated hundreds of times. 2. zwar, 

 even. 3. vorsichgehenden, occurring. 4. wie . . . werden, how bodies 

 are composed, and how their composition takes place. 5. Das . . ., that is not 

 possible. 6. gliche . . . , it would resemble technology and mechanical engineer- 

 ing and other applied sciences. 7. Dass . . . koimte, that it can go far 

 enough to. 8. die . . . Erklarung, the physical explanations repeated first in 

 this century and especially during the past decades. 9. zum Teil, partly. 

 10. genau . . . , have been perfectly imitated, n. unmittelbar, simply. 

 12. das Allantoin, Cholin, allantoin and cholin. 13. sich . .. lassen, 

 can be recognized as mechanical and chemical, and can be satisfactorily 

 explained as such. 14. den der Luft, that (oxygen] of the air. 15. wie. . ., 

 how through the development of new functions, new organs arise, or those 

 which were present in former generations again come forth. 



LIV. DIE MODERNE PHRENOLOGIE. 



i. lauter, mere. 2. Die . . . sind, the skull is said to be formed of a 

 number of individual vertebrae arranged in rows one upon another. ^jr 



