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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... modified . The phenomena exhibited in the section show that there are many important considerations to affect our ideas of the rocks at some depth below those coloured on our maps . Though the series has a regular arrangement , many ...
... modified . The phenomena exhibited in the section show that there are many important considerations to affect our ideas of the rocks at some depth below those coloured on our maps . Though the series has a regular arrangement , many ...
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... modified according to the manure applied . When the crop is cut from each plot , its weight is estimated , and also the amount of dry produce . In some cases chemical analysis is pushed further , and the ashes duly examined . In ...
... modified according to the manure applied . When the crop is cut from each plot , its weight is estimated , and also the amount of dry produce . In some cases chemical analysis is pushed further , and the ashes duly examined . In ...
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... modified in structure , those which depart furthest from the harmless serpents . The long poison - fang is firmly fixed to the maxillary bone , which is extremely short and high , and moveable upon two other bones of the head . Behind ...
... modified in structure , those which depart furthest from the harmless serpents . The long poison - fang is firmly fixed to the maxillary bone , which is extremely short and high , and moveable upon two other bones of the head . Behind ...
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... modified structure as well as their geographical range , it might reasonably be con- jectured , from the point of view afforded by Mr. Darwin's hypothesis , that the Crotalidæ first appeared at a later period than any other family of ...
... modified structure as well as their geographical range , it might reasonably be con- jectured , from the point of view afforded by Mr. Darwin's hypothesis , that the Crotalidæ first appeared at a later period than any other family of ...
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... modify the natural mode of conveyance of an object or act to the senses : the mirage , the double sun , the monster in the fog , the reflected sound ( echo ) , even the reflected image in the clear stream ; these the mysterious ...
... modify the natural mode of conveyance of an object or act to the senses : the mirage , the double sun , the monster in the fog , the reflected sound ( echo ) , even the reflected image in the clear stream ; these the mysterious ...
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