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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... surface consist- ing of innumerable yeast cells with some filaments , branch- ing in all directions . On the fourth day tufts of Penicillium had developed two varieties , P. glaucum and P. viride . This continued until the ninth day ...
... surface consist- ing of innumerable yeast cells with some filaments , branch- ing in all directions . On the fourth day tufts of Penicillium had developed two varieties , P. glaucum and P. viride . This continued until the ninth day ...
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... surface of the matrix . This is a most interesting mould belonging to the order of Mucedines , but it seemed to agree so little with the characters of any known genus , that , on distributing specimens last year , it was placed ...
... surface of the matrix . This is a most interesting mould belonging to the order of Mucedines , but it seemed to agree so little with the characters of any known genus , that , on distributing specimens last year , it was placed ...
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... surface of the damp paper was covered by these different fungi , it was scarcely possible to regard any of them as isolated , or to declare that one was not connected with the mycelium of the others . The little spheres , when the paper ...
... surface of the damp paper was covered by these different fungi , it was scarcely possible to regard any of them as isolated , or to declare that one was not connected with the mycelium of the others . The little spheres , when the paper ...
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... surface of the vinegar - as from the fetid scums of our hydrant - water likewise - little sprigs , like air - vesicles , become manifest , and that , rapidly en- larging in bulk and lengthwise , from their ramified fibre ( and which ...
... surface of the vinegar - as from the fetid scums of our hydrant - water likewise - little sprigs , like air - vesicles , become manifest , and that , rapidly en- larging in bulk and lengthwise , from their ramified fibre ( and which ...
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... surface . The gaseous envelope into which these gaseous prominences are projected to vast heights , and through which they sink slowly back , is doubtless to be regarded as the true solar atmosphere , and not that glowing and somewhat ...
... surface . The gaseous envelope into which these gaseous prominences are projected to vast heights , and through which they sink slowly back , is doubtless to be regarded as the true solar atmosphere , and not that glowing and somewhat ...
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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...