Science, Volume 46Moses King, 1917 - Science Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... interest to deserve mention . The first step in the process is the oxidation of naphthalene to phthalic acid . The proc- esses which had been used before that were too tedious and expensive . In the course of a systematic examination of ...
... interest to deserve mention . The first step in the process is the oxidation of naphthalene to phthalic acid . The proc- esses which had been used before that were too tedious and expensive . In the course of a systematic examination of ...
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... interest in the sar- dine industry . SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON has now returned to England , after lecturing in Australia and America . He has received a commission in the army . PROFESSOR JOSEPH S. AMES , of the Johns Hopkins University ...
... interest in the sar- dine industry . SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON has now returned to England , after lecturing in Australia and America . He has received a commission in the army . PROFESSOR JOSEPH S. AMES , of the Johns Hopkins University ...
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... interest in or remember the Latin names of plants . This being so , it is highly desirable that every species of plant inhabiting the United States and Canada should have an English name . It is further desirable that the name should ...
... interest in or remember the Latin names of plants . This being so , it is highly desirable that every species of plant inhabiting the United States and Canada should have an English name . It is further desirable that the name should ...
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... interest is that these results , as a whole , demonstrate that the ex- tent of sexual modification in the experi- mental animal is , in general , in proportion to the immaturity of the treated animal . That is to say , the earlier the ...
... interest is that these results , as a whole , demonstrate that the ex- tent of sexual modification in the experi- mental animal is , in general , in proportion to the immaturity of the treated animal . That is to say , the earlier the ...
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... interest aroused by parasitic flowering plants has found ex- pression in an enormous number of macro- scopic and microscopic morphological and life - history investigations . Yet it should be clear that the problem of the distribu- tion ...
... interest aroused by parasitic flowering plants has found ex- pression in an enormous number of macro- scopic and microscopic morphological and life - history investigations . Yet it should be clear that the problem of the distribu- tion ...
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