The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, 10. köideJames Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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... called , Mr. Wallace does not enter , though we may gather , from a passage in which he speaks of " the controlling action of such higher intelligences , " that he does not necessarily identify him with the First Cause of all things ...
... called , Mr. Wallace does not enter , though we may gather , from a passage in which he speaks of " the controlling action of such higher intelligences , " that he does not necessarily identify him with the First Cause of all things ...
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... called Cladosporium herbarum . It may be characterised as cosmopolitan , and one of the commonest , if not the commonest , of fungi . Under the microscope this mould consists of a profuse mycelium , from which arise tufts of jointed ...
... called Cladosporium herbarum . It may be characterised as cosmopolitan , and one of the commonest , if not the commonest , of fungi . Under the microscope this mould consists of a profuse mycelium , from which arise tufts of jointed ...
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... called paraphyses , supposed to be abortive asci . At first , and for some time , the perithecia contain only a granular mass , at length mixed with paraphyses . The contents of the fertile asci are also at the first granular , and ...
... called paraphyses , supposed to be abortive asci . At first , and for some time , the perithecia contain only a granular mass , at length mixed with paraphyses . The contents of the fertile asci are also at the first granular , and ...
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... called a bacterium ' ) by individual lengthwise growth increases into a short automatously travelling and afterwards exceedingly long , but still as fine leptomitous ' or individual fibre of the ' mephitic ' water - rot of our pools and ...
... called a bacterium ' ) by individual lengthwise growth increases into a short automatously travelling and afterwards exceedingly long , but still as fine leptomitous ' or individual fibre of the ' mephitic ' water - rot of our pools and ...
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... called it , the sierra - is as well defined as that of the prominences . There is indeed not a par- ticle of evidence tending to the belief that in eclipses it would appear otherwise than in the valuable drawings which Profes- sor ...
... called it , the sierra - is as well defined as that of the prominences . There is indeed not a par- ticle of evidence tending to the belief that in eclipses it would appear otherwise than in the valuable drawings which Profes- sor ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...