The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... known to occur at all ; while in the higher animals we meet with no obvious phenomena at all of the nature of gemmation . In those of the lower species in which both modes of propagation are well - marked features , we find that they ...
... known to occur at all ; while in the higher animals we meet with no obvious phenomena at all of the nature of gemmation . In those of the lower species in which both modes of propagation are well - marked features , we find that they ...
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... known to be merely rudimentary forms of Cestoid worms . Their transformation into the latter is their most notable change , but , prior to it , they present us with a series of successive forms , all referable to the cystic phase . The ...
... known to be merely rudimentary forms of Cestoid worms . Their transformation into the latter is their most notable change , but , prior to it , they present us with a series of successive forms , all referable to the cystic phase . The ...
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... known the sexual elements are not formed in connection with the con- spicuous vegetative stem , but in minute derivative phytoids , termed prothallia , which are produced by the germination of the spores . The prothallia bear antheridia ...
... known the sexual elements are not formed in connection with the con- spicuous vegetative stem , but in minute derivative phytoids , termed prothallia , which are produced by the germination of the spores . The prothallia bear antheridia ...
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... known and highly esteemed man of science , who has travelled over a great part of the Andes , assures me , that wherever he found an Indian home , there he found the cat domesticated . It only remains for me to say , that in this ...
... known and highly esteemed man of science , who has travelled over a great part of the Andes , assures me , that wherever he found an Indian home , there he found the cat domesticated . It only remains for me to say , that in this ...
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... known to be producable by the action of floating ice , I am disposed to refer them to this agency . Without entering upon the question whether the valleys of the first class may not , at an earlier stage of the glacial epoch , have been ...
... known to be producable by the action of floating ice , I am disposed to refer them to this agency . Without entering upon the question whether the valleys of the first class may not , at an earlier stage of the glacial epoch , have been ...
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