The American Journal of Science and ArtsS. Converse, 1860 - Geology |
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... mass of inorganic elements which had been drawn together in due proportion for that purpose . This last supposition is inevitable if we reject the first . The one thing I would be understood to assert , is , that science must now elect ...
... mass of inorganic elements which had been drawn together in due proportion for that purpose . This last supposition is inevitable if we reject the first . The one thing I would be understood to assert , is , that science must now elect ...
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... Mass . THE common cane , as it springs from the seed , bears no slight resemblance to some of our coarser and more reedy Panicums ; rising , during the season of its growth , according to the more or less favorable circumstances of its ...
... Mass . THE common cane , as it springs from the seed , bears no slight resemblance to some of our coarser and more reedy Panicums ; rising , during the season of its growth , according to the more or less favorable circumstances of its ...
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... Mass . - of course in the open air . The aver- age distance of the shots from the centre is 1 : 038 inches . Any marksman upon inspect- ing it will at once see that shots a and a ' were carried to the right and left merely by the wind ...
... Mass . - of course in the open air . The aver- age distance of the shots from the centre is 1 : 038 inches . Any marksman upon inspect- ing it will at once see that shots a and a ' were carried to the right and left merely by the wind ...
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... mass of organized molecules formed of the same elements of which the plant is composed , viz : carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , and nitrogen , with a minute portion of sulphur and other substances . Without attempting to describe the ...
... mass of organized molecules formed of the same elements of which the plant is composed , viz : carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , and nitrogen , with a minute portion of sulphur and other substances . Without attempting to describe the ...
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... mass than any we are acquainted with , must , on entering our atmosphere with planetary velocity , become self ... masses of air lying in the path of the body must be driven before it , 44 J. H. Lane on a Mode of Photographing Meteors .
... mass than any we are acquainted with , must , on entering our atmosphere with planetary velocity , become self ... masses of air lying in the path of the body must be driven before it , 44 J. H. Lane on a Mode of Photographing Meteors .
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