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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... definite answer . The same gas , however , is produced by the decomposition of dead plants in marshy places , and we must content ourselves with the vague statement that carburetted hydrogen has been generated by chemical reaction out ...
... definite answer . The same gas , however , is produced by the decomposition of dead plants in marshy places , and we must content ourselves with the vague statement that carburetted hydrogen has been generated by chemical reaction out ...
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... definite order comparable to that order of succes- sion into which all stratified rocks may be determined . Each layer may be taken to represent a series of limestones and clays , or sandstones and conglomerates , or slates . Some ...
... definite order comparable to that order of succes- sion into which all stratified rocks may be determined . Each layer may be taken to represent a series of limestones and clays , or sandstones and conglomerates , or slates . Some ...
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... definite purpose , and which has been retained for a prodigious length of time . " This is remarkable enough ; though it may be objected , that it does not prove anything with regard to man , it is of value as proving that habits have ...
... definite purpose , and which has been retained for a prodigious length of time . " This is remarkable enough ; though it may be objected , that it does not prove anything with regard to man , it is of value as proving that habits have ...
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... definite name can be given , and in which organization appears in its simplest forms . The mor- phology of plants and animals is intimately connected with the comparative anatomy of the two groups , and the investi- gator traces step by ...
... definite name can be given , and in which organization appears in its simplest forms . The mor- phology of plants and animals is intimately connected with the comparative anatomy of the two groups , and the investi- gator traces step by ...
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... definite branched rhizome , from which the flower - branches arise , and which is clothed with thick tooth - like scales , from the axils of some of which slender rootlets are given off .. The observations of Mr. Bowman in 1829 first ...
... definite branched rhizome , from which the flower - branches arise , and which is clothed with thick tooth - like scales , from the axils of some of which slender rootlets are given off .. The observations of Mr. Bowman in 1829 first ...
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