The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 12James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1873 - Science |
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... COMET AND ITS METEOR - TRAIN By R. A. Proctor , B.A. 139 CURIOSITIES OF VEGETABLE MORPHOLOGY . By H. J. Slack , F.G.S. Illustrated ... ... ... ... ... ... 150 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN During the PLEIS- TOCENE AGE . By W ...
... COMET AND ITS METEOR - TRAIN By R. A. Proctor , B.A. 139 CURIOSITIES OF VEGETABLE MORPHOLOGY . By H. J. Slack , F.G.S. Illustrated ... ... ... ... ... ... 150 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN During the PLEIS- TOCENE AGE . By W ...
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... Comets , " " What , then , is the Corona ? are decidedly the best papers in the volume . Still it must not be thought that the other contributions are devoid of interest ; for , in our opinion , even the slightest of them is not without ...
... Comets , " " What , then , is the Corona ? are decidedly the best papers in the volume . Still it must not be thought that the other contributions are devoid of interest ; for , in our opinion , even the slightest of them is not without ...
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... comet was in R.A. 1h . 41m . , and N.P.D. 48 ° —an agreement so close as to leave no room for doubt as to the real connection between the comet and the meteors . It is worthy of notice that Prof. Alex . Herschel had , in the ...
... comet was in R.A. 1h . 41m . , and N.P.D. 48 ° —an agreement so close as to leave no room for doubt as to the real connection between the comet and the meteors . It is worthy of notice that Prof. Alex . Herschel had , in the ...
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... comets existed . Many comets depending in just such a manner on the planet Jupiter have been already detected ; that the case is the same with Neptune ; that there is one comet at least , which on this view of the matter must be ...
... comets existed . Many comets depending in just such a manner on the planet Jupiter have been already detected ; that the case is the same with Neptune ; that there is one comet at least , which on this view of the matter must be ...
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... Comets expelled from the much more slowly moving Neptune would be as likely to travel in either direction . This agrees with observation . " Probable Early Appearances of Comet I. 1866 ( the Comet of the November Meteors ) .— Mr . Hind ...
... Comets expelled from the much more slowly moving Neptune would be as likely to travel in either direction . This agrees with observation . " Probable Early Appearances of Comet I. 1866 ( the Comet of the November Meteors ) .— Mr . Hind ...
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