Hardwicke's Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 29. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1893 |
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... plant may also be partly due to a slimy substance which is left by the Mycetozoon as it shifts its position , as though it threw off the waste material that would otherwise accumulate in its own substance . This rejection of useless ...
... plant may also be partly due to a slimy substance which is left by the Mycetozoon as it shifts its position , as though it threw off the waste material that would otherwise accumulate in its own substance . This rejection of useless ...
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... plant will not account for this , for the whole country generally was ablaze with clover , during the months when the insect was prevalent ; while many a brilliant clover - field with a breezy situation , proved a barren hunting ...
... plant will not account for this , for the whole country generally was ablaze with clover , during the months when the insect was prevalent ; while many a brilliant clover - field with a breezy situation , proved a barren hunting ...
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... plants and domesticated animals . We see this in the invariable increase of the part selected , instead of a general enlargement of all the parts . ( 2. ) Modifications due to inherent variability , and more or less intermittently ...
... plants and domesticated animals . We see this in the invariable increase of the part selected , instead of a general enlargement of all the parts . ( 2. ) Modifications due to inherent variability , and more or less intermittently ...
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... plants . As a matter of fact , it is taken for granted that any group of living beings now found removed from each other in different parts of the globe , must have been thus transferred from point to point , during those geological ...
... plants . As a matter of fact , it is taken for granted that any group of living beings now found removed from each other in different parts of the globe , must have been thus transferred from point to point , during those geological ...
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... plant life , very nearly allied to the microscopic yeast and fungi . It is more than pro- bable that we owe more to these microscopical members of the vegetable kingdom , than to its larger and more advanced species . THROUGH ...
... plant life , very nearly allied to the microscopic yeast and fungi . It is more than pro- bable that we owe more to these microscopical members of the vegetable kingdom , than to its larger and more advanced species . THROUGH ...
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