Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1891 |
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Page 19
... Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited ? By W. Platt Ball ( London : Macmillan & Co. ) . This well got - up little volume is one of the celebrated " Nature Series . " It deals clearly and forcibly with Herbert Spencer's examples and ...
... Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited ? By W. Platt Ball ( London : Macmillan & Co. ) . This well got - up little volume is one of the celebrated " Nature Series . " It deals clearly and forcibly with Herbert Spencer's examples and ...
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... effect . Practically , in every - day life every one acts upon the assumption that individual peculiarities are ... effects in perfecting or aborting every organ of animals , and the slight , fine modifications in certain directions by ...
... effect . Practically , in every - day life every one acts upon the assumption that individual peculiarities are ... effects in perfecting or aborting every organ of animals , and the slight , fine modifications in certain directions by ...
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... effect was magical . The shy explorers took wing together without a cry or warning to those left behind , and not daring to face the foe , fly forwards , catching sight of each of us in turn as they pass the stile of the screen through ...
... effect was magical . The shy explorers took wing together without a cry or warning to those left behind , and not daring to face the foe , fly forwards , catching sight of each of us in turn as they pass the stile of the screen through ...
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... effect under the glass is that of a plane A Fig . 28 . B Fig . 29 . B Fig . 30 . C Fig . 31 . Fig . 32 . D Fig . 33 . E Fig . 34 . F Fig . 35 margin with the whole of the thickening occurring on the under side of the leaf , so as to ...
... effect under the glass is that of a plane A Fig . 28 . B Fig . 29 . B Fig . 30 . C Fig . 31 . Fig . 32 . D Fig . 33 . E Fig . 34 . F Fig . 35 margin with the whole of the thickening occurring on the under side of the leaf , so as to ...
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... effect is to produce a ludicrous resemblance to a diminutive cobra . Now , what puzzles me is this exact resemblance . The insect could not possibly be taken for a cobra on account of its small size and green colour ; while if the ...
... effect is to produce a ludicrous resemblance to a diminutive cobra . Now , what puzzles me is this exact resemblance . The insect could not possibly be taken for a cobra on account of its small size and green colour ; while if the ...
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