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... pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light - Luminous insects - Law of natural selection- Happiness and unhappiness in the ...
... pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light - Luminous insects - Law of natural selection- Happiness and unhappiness in the ...
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... pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light - Luminous insects - Law of natural selec- tion - Happiness and unhappiness in ...
... pollinia of orchids- Disharmonies in nature - Unadapted insects - Aberration of instincts - Perversion of sexual instinct - Attraction of insects by light - Luminous insects - Law of natural selec- tion - Happiness and unhappiness in ...
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... pollinia , and these adhere to the body . of the visiting insect by means of an adhesive fluid which is secreted by an organ of the flower known as the rostellum . In this way the pollinia adhere firmly , it may be to the proboscis of ...
... pollinia , and these adhere to the body . of the visiting insect by means of an adhesive fluid which is secreted by an organ of the flower known as the rostellum . In this way the pollinia adhere firmly , it may be to the proboscis of ...
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... pollinia , introduces itself into another flower of the same species of orchid , it inevit- ably comes in contact with the female apparatus , more particularly with the viscous surface of the stigma . Some of the grains of pollen ...
... pollinia , introduces itself into another flower of the same species of orchid , it inevit- ably comes in contact with the female apparatus , more particularly with the viscous surface of the stigma . Some of the grains of pollen ...
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... pollinia firmly to the insects without getting hard " ) , " and in these alone , we find copious nectar ready stored for rapid suction in open nectaries . On the other hand , whenever the viscid matter gets hard by exposure for a short ...
... pollinia firmly to the insects without getting hard " ) , " and in these alone , we find copious nectar ready stored for rapid suction in open nectaries . On the other hand , whenever the viscid matter gets hard by exposure for a short ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
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.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 175 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.