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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... prove fatal to the animal we are imagining . There is no conceivable reason why such an animal should live and perpetuate his peculiarity , while others which did not possess it perished ; there is , on the contrary , every reason to ...
... prove fatal to the animal we are imagining . There is no conceivable reason why such an animal should live and perpetuate his peculiarity , while others which did not possess it perished ; there is , on the contrary , every reason to ...
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... proved beyond doubt that many species of fungi are truly polymor- phic , appearing under different phases . It is ... prove , without doubt , that they are conditions , the one of the other . It is easy enough to sow the spores of a ...
... proved beyond doubt that many species of fungi are truly polymor- phic , appearing under different phases . It is ... prove , without doubt , that they are conditions , the one of the other . It is easy enough to sow the spores of a ...
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... prove dimorphism in moulds under such conditions . In many cases it is more presumption than proof . These remarks are not made with the view of discrediting the conclusions of such observers as Professor De Bary and the brothers ...
... prove dimorphism in moulds under such conditions . In many cases it is more presumption than proof . These remarks are not made with the view of discrediting the conclusions of such observers as Professor De Bary and the brothers ...
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... proved to be fact , and that many more will yet be discovered . We would admit that it is possible that none of the species , now included in the two great families of Coniomycetes and Hyphomycetes are autonomous . But , because it is ...
... proved to be fact , and that many more will yet be discovered . We would admit that it is possible that none of the species , now included in the two great families of Coniomycetes and Hyphomycetes are autonomous . But , because it is ...
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... proved and the presumptions admitted , but not proven , we may answer briefly that the tendency of recent discoveries , in the relations of one form to another amongst fungi , is to demonstrate that reproduction is not so simple a ...
... proved and the presumptions admitted , but not proven , we may answer briefly that the tendency of recent discoveries , in the relations of one form to another amongst fungi , is to demonstrate that reproduction is not so simple a ...
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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...