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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... taken to adh closely as possible to Nature . Vol . 1. ( Seven Parts ) . Vol . 2. ditto The Prices of the Volumes are— Bound cloth . £ s . d . 1 18 0 Half morocco . £ s . d . 220 1 18 0 220 Vol . 3. ( Eight Parts ) . 230 270 Vol . 4 ...
... taken to adh closely as possible to Nature . Vol . 1. ( Seven Parts ) . Vol . 2. ditto The Prices of the Volumes are— Bound cloth . £ s . d . 1 18 0 Half morocco . £ s . d . 220 1 18 0 220 Vol . 3. ( Eight Parts ) . 230 270 Vol . 4 ...
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... . ENLARGED ILLUSTRATED SURGICAL CATALOGUE , SIX STAMPS . N.B. - GOOD INSTRUMENTS PURCHASED OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE . VOL . X.-NO. XXXVIII . a A Now ready , a new Edition , with the Popular Science Review Advertiser , January 1871 .
... . ENLARGED ILLUSTRATED SURGICAL CATALOGUE , SIX STAMPS . N.B. - GOOD INSTRUMENTS PURCHASED OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE . VOL . X.-NO. XXXVIII . a A Now ready , a new Edition , with the Popular Science Review Advertiser , January 1871 .
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... taken to vary as the SIXTH power of the velocity from 950-1050 f . s . , as the THIRD power from 1070 to 1400 f . s . , and as the SECOND power for higher velocities . Under these cir- cumstances the cubic law , with a varying ...
... taken to vary as the SIXTH power of the velocity from 950-1050 f . s . , as the THIRD power from 1070 to 1400 f . s . , and as the SECOND power for higher velocities . Under these cir- cumstances the cubic law , with a varying ...
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... taken into account . What , then , were these changes ? We cannot , of course , tell exactly , unless we knew - as we certainly do not know the form of life which immediately preceded the human . But let us assume for the moment that ...
... taken into account . What , then , were these changes ? We cannot , of course , tell exactly , unless we knew - as we certainly do not know the form of life which immediately preceded the human . But let us assume for the moment that ...
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... taken unless it is more to the advantage of the individual than a short step in the same direction , because it is certain that many more individuals will be born in any given generation with the small than with the large variation ...
... taken unless it is more to the advantage of the individual than a short step in the same direction , because it is certain that many more individuals will be born in any given generation with the small than with the large variation ...
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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...