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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... similar intention and no result . The resistance of the air in the case just mentioned reduces the range to a space thirty - four times less than a vacuum range . Hutton's law assigned it to be a function of the velocity added to its ...
... similar intention and no result . The resistance of the air in the case just mentioned reduces the range to a space thirty - four times less than a vacuum range . Hutton's law assigned it to be a function of the velocity added to its ...
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... similar individuals , or the Kind - a word which may be usefully employed to avoid the technical meaning attaching to class or species - that changes . And it changes only by means of changing its units , by dropping out from time to ...
... similar individuals , or the Kind - a word which may be usefully employed to avoid the technical meaning attaching to class or species - that changes . And it changes only by means of changing its units , by dropping out from time to ...
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... similar peculiarities in others . But if the change is actually injurious , it will vanish at once . The unlucky pos- sessor of it will be inferior to his neighbours in the struggle for existence ; his life will be cut short sooner than ...
... similar peculiarities in others . But if the change is actually injurious , it will vanish at once . The unlucky pos- sessor of it will be inferior to his neighbours in the struggle for existence ; his life will be cut short sooner than ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... similar instance of presumed dimorphism between precisely the same genera is thus recorded . " On a preparation preserved in a moist chamber on the third day a white speck was seen in the surface consist- ing of innumerable yeast cells ...
... similar instance of presumed dimorphism between precisely the same genera is thus recorded . " On a preparation preserved in a moist chamber on the third day a white speck was seen in the surface consist- ing of innumerable yeast cells ...
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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...