Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 1. köideRobert Hardwicke, 1865 |
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... hair is projected , as it were , by their growth from below . Under a low power the cells of the human hair cannot be observed . It presents , how- ever , a well - marked distinction between the outside , or cortical layer , and the ...
... hair is projected , as it were , by their growth from below . Under a low power the cells of the human hair cannot be observed . It presents , how- ever , a well - marked distinction between the outside , or cortical layer , and the ...
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... hair . To pluck out a hair from the head of a playmate , and look at it with a simple microscope , is one of the first experiments of schoolboy days , although the result of the investigation is not always satis- factory , for reasons ...
... hair . To pluck out a hair from the head of a playmate , and look at it with a simple microscope , is one of the first experiments of schoolboy days , although the result of the investigation is not always satis- factory , for reasons ...
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... hair of an Ethiopian . This change was accompanied with a great sensibility in the skin to the heat of the sun and of fire . In the course of a few months the natural colour returned , first in patches which pre- sented a singularly ...
... hair of an Ethiopian . This change was accompanied with a great sensibility in the skin to the heat of the sun and of fire . In the course of a few months the natural colour returned , first in patches which pre- sented a singularly ...
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Mistletoe in Devonshire 114 | 14 |
Furzeleaves Trifoliate 115 | 15 |
Moa of New Zealand 282 | 23 |
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