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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... present standard of scientific knowledge by T. BOSWELL SYME , F.L.S. , & With Popular Descriptions of the Uses , History , and Traditions of each Plant by Mrs. LANKESTER , Aut ' Wild Flowers Worth Notice , ' ' The British Ferns , ' & c ...
... present standard of scientific knowledge by T. BOSWELL SYME , F.L.S. , & With Popular Descriptions of the Uses , History , and Traditions of each Plant by Mrs. LANKESTER , Aut ' Wild Flowers Worth Notice , ' ' The British Ferns , ' & c ...
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... present Report , but the difficulties in the way of a clear solution are so many and so great , that it would be difficult with our present experience to assign any new law repre- senting with accuracy the resistance of the air to the ...
... present Report , but the difficulties in the way of a clear solution are so many and so great , that it would be difficult with our present experience to assign any new law repre- senting with accuracy the resistance of the air to the ...
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... present artillerists with a true guide for the performance of their arduous duties . The result of 18 rounds of shot through 10 screens , commenced * If 120 feet be the distance of one screen from another , and the cubic law of ...
... present artillerists with a true guide for the performance of their arduous duties . The result of 18 rounds of shot through 10 screens , commenced * If 120 feet be the distance of one screen from another , and the cubic law of ...
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... present similar difficulties in the way of natural selection , and seem therefore to require the introduction of this other factor . What , for instance , were the steps which led to the production of the first mammal , or of the first ...
... present similar difficulties in the way of natural selection , and seem therefore to require the introduction of this other factor . What , for instance , were the steps which led to the production of the first mammal , or of the first ...
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... present when the Penicillium was examined , and the leaves on which it had grown were enclosed in the tin box , but that the Mucor afterwards appeared on the same leaves , sometimes from the same patches , and from the same mycelium ...
... present when the Penicillium was examined , and the leaves on which it had grown were enclosed in the tin box , but that the Mucor afterwards appeared on the same leaves , sometimes from the same patches , and from the same mycelium ...
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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...