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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... requires the results to be supplemented with an elaborate process of interpo- lation , described in the Transactions of the Royal Society , 1868 . November 23 , 1865 , gave such indications of the HITTING THE MARK , ETC. 9.
... requires the results to be supplemented with an elaborate process of interpo- lation , described in the Transactions of the Royal Society , 1868 . November 23 , 1865 , gave such indications of the HITTING THE MARK , ETC. 9.
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... described as the survival of the fittest . Were Now let us apply these principles to the case of man . the changes by which the Kind passed - if it did pass - from some lower type to the human type such as would be mani- festly ...
... described as the survival of the fittest . Were Now let us apply these principles to the case of man . the changes by which the Kind passed - if it did pass - from some lower type to the human type such as would be mani- festly ...
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... described moulds with which we were acquainted . Here was a problem to be solved under the most favourable conditions , a forest of mould indoors , within a few yards of the fireside , growing quite naturally , and all strangers ; could ...
... described moulds with which we were acquainted . Here was a problem to be solved under the most favourable conditions , a forest of mould indoors , within a few yards of the fireside , growing quite naturally , and all strangers ; could ...
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... described having become established for a week or two , small blackish spots made their appearance on the paper , sometimes amongst thin patches of the mould and some- times outside them . These spots , at first cloudy and indefinite ...
... described having become established for a week or two , small blackish spots made their appearance on the paper , sometimes amongst thin patches of the mould and some- times outside them . These spots , at first cloudy and indefinite ...
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... described species of Penicillium with which this new mould would agree , it was named Penicillium chartarum . Almost simultaneously , or but shortly after the perfection of the spores of the Penicillium , other and very similar patches ...
... described species of Penicillium with which this new mould would agree , it was named Penicillium chartarum . Almost simultaneously , or but shortly after the perfection of the spores of the Penicillium , other and very similar patches ...
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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...