The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 - Science |
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... common ancestor , and probably these class - founders are themselves only brethren descended from some yet remoter stock . Of the former of these two positions he speaks confidently . " I cannot doubt , " he says , " that the theory of ...
... common ancestor , and probably these class - founders are themselves only brethren descended from some yet remoter stock . Of the former of these two positions he speaks confidently . " I cannot doubt , " he says , " that the theory of ...
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... common form the boundless multiformity which now meets our eyes . No doubt the whole course of Mr. Darwin's reasonings and illustrations leads us to the conviction that in his judgment the unassisted action of natural selection is ...
... common form the boundless multiformity which now meets our eyes . No doubt the whole course of Mr. Darwin's reasonings and illustrations leads us to the conviction that in his judgment the unassisted action of natural selection is ...
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... common ; how would the differentiation begin to be carried on ? One of the most marked peculiarities in man is the soft , smooth skin . Alone among the mammalia , he is unprotected either by the hardness or the shagginess of his ...
... common ; how would the differentiation begin to be carried on ? One of the most marked peculiarities in man is the soft , smooth skin . Alone among the mammalia , he is unprotected either by the hardness or the shagginess of his ...
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... common Aspergillus or Penicillium makes its appearance , to some minds it is at once conclusive that the said Mucedine is only a condition of Aspergillus or Penicil- lium . Such a conclusion is not only rash , but mischievous , and far ...
... common Aspergillus or Penicillium makes its appearance , to some minds it is at once conclusive that the said Mucedine is only a condition of Aspergillus or Penicil- lium . Such a conclusion is not only rash , but mischievous , and far ...
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... common Sphæria ( Plaospora ) herbarum . It occurs on the dead stems of herbaceous plants , on the leaves of some trees , and even sometimes on decaying Alga . On pea and bean stems it is usually plentiful . In fact , it is almost the ...
... common Sphæria ( Plaospora ) herbarum . It occurs on the dead stems of herbaceous plants , on the leaves of some trees , and even sometimes on decaying Alga . On pea and bean stems it is usually plentiful . In fact , it is almost the ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...