My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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... complete . A third set of observations might be made on young fowls , turkeys , guinea - fowls , pheasants , etc. , in exactly the same manner . " Now the purport of these observations is to ascertain the law which had determined the ...
... complete . A third set of observations might be made on young fowls , turkeys , guinea - fowls , pheasants , etc. , in exactly the same manner . " Now the purport of these observations is to ascertain the law which had determined the ...
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... complete . The duke , dealing with birds only , had dwelt most on these special adaptations ( chiefly , if I remember , the beautiful overlapping and movements of the separate feathers increas- ing resistance during the downward , and ...
... complete . The duke , dealing with birds only , had dwelt most on these special adaptations ( chiefly , if I remember , the beautiful overlapping and movements of the separate feathers increas- ing resistance during the downward , and ...
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... complete his preparations , and in September , 1871 , was landed in Astrolabe Bay with two servants , one a Swede and the other a Polynesian . The ship's carpenter built him a small hut , fourteen feet by seven feet , and then the ship ...
... complete his preparations , and in September , 1871 , was landed in Astrolabe Bay with two servants , one a Swede and the other a Polynesian . The ship's carpenter built him a small hut , fourteen feet by seven feet , and then the ship ...
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... complete laboratories , or finer telescopes , or more costly apparatus of any kind , who but our scientific associations and the large and wealthy class now interested in science should supply the want ? They have hitherto done so nobly ...
... complete laboratories , or finer telescopes , or more costly apparatus of any kind , who but our scientific associations and the large and wealthy class now interested in science should supply the want ? They have hitherto done so nobly ...
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... complete harmony with him , neither need you fear that I shall remain sceptical on those points where already I am willing to receive them in hypothesis for all really useful or practical purposes in reference to classification . I have ...
... complete harmony with him , neither need you fear that I shall remain sceptical on those points where already I am willing to receive them in hypothesis for all really useful or practical purposes in reference to classification . I have ...
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