The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 11James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1872 - Science |
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Page 87
... resemblance , thus acquired , to another species , which enjoys , for some reason , special immunity from the attacks of enemies , or to some inanimate object . Whether this explanation is supported by a careful examination of the facts ...
... resemblance , thus acquired , to another species , which enjoys , for some reason , special immunity from the attacks of enemies , or to some inanimate object . Whether this explanation is supported by a careful examination of the facts ...
Page 88
... resemblance " : - natural selection and hybridisation . Mr. Darwin , Mr. Wallace , and Mr. Bates advocate the former view , maintaining that the resemblance is brought about by exceedingly slow gradations , each small variation in the ...
... resemblance " : - natural selection and hybridisation . Mr. Darwin , Mr. Wallace , and Mr. Bates advocate the former view , maintaining that the resemblance is brought about by exceedingly slow gradations , each small variation in the ...
Page 89
... resemblances among plants sufficiently close to deserve the appellation of mimicry may be classed under two heads ... resemblance in external features . Plants growing in running water , whether flowering or flowerless , Ranunculus or ...
... resemblances among plants sufficiently close to deserve the appellation of mimicry may be classed under two heads ... resemblance in external features . Plants growing in running water , whether flowering or flowerless , Ranunculus or ...
Page 90
... resemblance is not merely a general one ; particular groups , and even species , of African Euphorbia imitate particular groups or species of American Cactus in the form and habit of the stem and the arrangement of the spines , so that ...
... resemblance is not merely a general one ; particular groups , and even species , of African Euphorbia imitate particular groups or species of American Cactus in the form and habit of the stem and the arrangement of the spines , so that ...
Page 91
... resemblance often carried , that the most experienced botanist has sometimes referred a plant , on a too cursory examination , to a genus or even natural order with which it has no affinity whatever . Thus Sir William Hooker is said to ...
... resemblance often carried , that the most experienced botanist has sometimes referred a plant , on a too cursory examination , to a genus or even natural order with which it has no affinity whatever . Thus Sir William Hooker is said to ...
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Page 207 - It is almost impossible to enumerate all the symptoms of this first invader upon the constitution, as in a hundred cases of Indigestion there will probably be something peculiar to each; but be they what they may, they are all occasioned by the food becoming a burden rather than a support to the stomach ; and in all its stages the medicine most wanted is that...
Page 268 - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page 336 - ... by a peculiar process accidentally discovered, and known only to the proprietor, and which he firmly believes to be one of the most valuable modern discoveries in medicine, by which all the essential and extractive matter of more than an ounce of the flowers is concentrated in four moderate-sized pills. Experience has afforded the most ample proof that they possess all the fine aromatic and stomachic properties for which the herb has been esteemed ; and, as they are taken into the stomach unencumbered...
Page 76 - SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYMB), LL.DFLS, &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth Notice," " The British Ferns,
Page 336 - ... to the taste, and unable to name one individual article of food which disagrees with or sits unpleasantly on the stomach. Never forget that a small meal well digested affords more nourishment to the system than a large one, even of the same food, when digested imperfectly. Let the...
Page 336 - Pills should be immediately taken, as they will stop and eradicate disease at its commencement. Indeed, it is most confidently asserted, that by the timely use of this medicine only, and a common degree of caution, any person may enjoy all the...
Page 336 - PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit) forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body (two inches below the hips) being sent to the Manufacturer, Mr.
Page 336 - ... mixing them well, and blending the whole together before they are swallowed ; and it is particularly urged upon all to take plenty of time to their meals and never eat in haste. If you conform to this short and simple, but comprehensive advice, and find that there are various things which...
Page 336 - ... been placed the very first in rank of all restorative medicines is, that in taking it the stomach has always been loaded with water which tends in a great measure to counteract, and very frequently wholly to destroy the effect. It must be evident that loading a weak stomach with a large quantity of water, merely for the purpose of conveying into it a small quantity of medicine, must be injurious; and that the medicine must possess powerful renovating properties only to counteract the bad effects...