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... DISHARMONIES AMONGST BEINGS INFERIOR TO MAN • The organised world before the appearance of man on the earth - Absence of a law of universal progress - Fertilisation Page iii ix 17 of vanilla - The part played by insects in the xi.
... DISHARMONIES AMONGST BEINGS INFERIOR TO MAN • The organised world before the appearance of man on the earth - Absence of a law of universal progress - Fertilisation Page iii ix 17 of vanilla - The part played by insects in the xi.
Page xii
... fertilisation of orchids - Mechanism by which insects carry the pollen of orchids - Habits of fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature- Useless organs - Rudiments of the pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects ...
... fertilisation of orchids - Mechanism by which insects carry the pollen of orchids - Habits of fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature- Useless organs - Rudiments of the pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects ...
Page 17
... Fertilisation of vanilla - The part played by insects in the fertilisation of orchids - Mechanism by which insects carry the pollen of orchids -- Habits of fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature -Useless organs - Rudiments of the ...
... Fertilisation of vanilla - The part played by insects in the fertilisation of orchids - Mechanism by which insects carry the pollen of orchids -- Habits of fossorial wasps - Harmonies in nature -Useless organs - Rudiments of the ...
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... fertilised and so made capable of bearing mature pods . * In the original home of the vanilla the intervention of man is unnecessary . In Guiana and Mexico fertilisation of the flower is the work of small bees ( of the genus Meli- pona ) ...
... fertilised and so made capable of bearing mature pods . * In the original home of the vanilla the intervention of man is unnecessary . In Guiana and Mexico fertilisation of the flower is the work of small bees ( of the genus Meli- pona ) ...
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... fertilisation of the orchids . Ménière relates that a person who kept bees near the garden of the Faculté de Toulouse complained that they returned from the garden with their heads covered with tiny yellow bodies which he was unable to ...
... fertilisation of the orchids . Ménière relates that a person who kept bees near the garden of the Faculté de Toulouse complained that they returned from the garden with their heads covered with tiny yellow bodies which he was unable to ...
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Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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