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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... doubt appreciate these labours , and it is a matter of congratulation that such men as Profes- sors Adams and Stokes have undertaken the onerous task of pro- nouncing their verdict upon researches as profound as they were spontaneous ...
... doubt appreciate these labours , and it is a matter of congratulation that such men as Profes- sors Adams and Stokes have undertaken the onerous task of pro- nouncing their verdict upon researches as profound as they were spontaneous ...
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... doubt , " he says , " that the theory of descent , with modification , embraces all the members of the same class . I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five pro- genitors , and plants from an equal or lesser ...
... doubt , " he says , " that the theory of descent , with modification , embraces all the members of the same class . I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five pro- genitors , and plants from an equal or lesser ...
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... doubt the whole course of Mr. Darwin's reasonings and illustrations leads us to the conviction that in his judgment the unassisted action of natural selection is sufficient to pro- duce all the necessary modifications , but so far as ...
... doubt the whole course of Mr. Darwin's reasonings and illustrations leads us to the conviction that in his judgment the unassisted action of natural selection is sufficient to pro- duce all the necessary modifications , but so far as ...
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... doubt a larger brain has an advantage over a smaller one . The brain is the organ of the greatest power that we know - the power of mind . It is the A man seat of thought , intelligence , sensation , c 2 NATURAL SELECTION INSUFFICIENT ...
... doubt a larger brain has an advantage over a smaller one . The brain is the organ of the greatest power that we know - the power of mind . It is the A man seat of thought , intelligence , sensation , c 2 NATURAL SELECTION INSUFFICIENT ...
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... doubt a great advantage over them in the struggle for existence , if he uses them . But they are no good to him in this respect while they lie latent or unused . does not become a match for a wild beast because he has a spear laid up in ...
... doubt a great advantage over them in the struggle for existence , if he uses them . But they are no good to him in this respect while they lie latent or unused . does not become a match for a wild beast because he has a spear laid up in ...
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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...