The Nature of manPutnam's, 1905 - 309 pages |
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... nectar , the material of their honey . Small humming - birds also hover over the vanilla blossoms , and by introducing their bills into the sexual organs of the flowers bring about con- tact of the male and female elements . Sterility ...
... nectar , the material of their honey . Small humming - birds also hover over the vanilla blossoms , and by introducing their bills into the sexual organs of the flowers bring about con- tact of the male and female elements . Sterility ...
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... nectar produced by the plants and stored in definite parts of the flowers . In order that their proboscis may reach the stores of sweet juice , the insects inevitably touch first the upper parts of the flowers , where the anthers are ...
... nectar produced by the plants and stored in definite parts of the flowers . In order that their proboscis may reach the stores of sweet juice , the insects inevitably touch first the upper parts of the flowers , where the anthers are ...
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... nectar is not easily accessible , and frequently the insect has to search for a long time before finding what it desires , and some- times it even has to pierce a membranous covering before reaching the fluid . The operation takes a ...
... nectar is not easily accessible , and frequently the insect has to search for a long time before finding what it desires , and some- times it even has to pierce a membranous covering before reaching the fluid . The operation takes a ...
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... nectar ; and in all such species the nectar is lodged within intercellular spaces , so that it can be obtained only by the inner membrane being pene- trated at several points , and this will require time . If this double relation is ...
... nectar ; and in all such species the nectar is lodged within intercellular spaces , so that it can be obtained only by the inner membrane being pene- trated at several points , and this will require time . If this double relation is ...
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... nectar or pollen . Other insects , again , are not so fortunate . in this respect . Darwin * on one occasion " found an extremely minute Hymenopterous insect vainly struggling to escape , with its head cemented by the hardened viscid ...
... nectar or pollen . Other insects , again , are not so fortunate . in this respect . Darwin * on one occasion " found an extremely minute Hymenopterous insect vainly struggling to escape , with its head cemented by the hardened viscid ...
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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 11 - 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.