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... Vegetable kingdoms ; and the distinction between Animal and Vegetable struc- tures on the one hand , and Mineral masses on the other , or between living bodies , and aggregations of inert matter , is by no means so obvious in every case ...
... Vegetable kingdoms ; and the distinction between Animal and Vegetable struc- tures on the one hand , and Mineral masses on the other , or between living bodies , and aggregations of inert matter , is by no means so obvious in every case ...
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... vegetable life present themselves under a shape , which ap- proaches more or less closely to the globular . It is ... vegetables , and in the lower classes of animals . A forest - tree may go on extending itself to an almost indefinite ...
... vegetable life present themselves under a shape , which ap- proaches more or less closely to the globular . It is ... vegetables , and in the lower classes of animals . A forest - tree may go on extending itself to an almost indefinite ...
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... Vegetable cells , the highest powers of the microscope fail in detecting any such distinction of fluid and solid com- ponents , as that which has been described as characteristic of organized structures . Nevertheless it is indubitable ...
... Vegetable cells , the highest powers of the microscope fail in detecting any such distinction of fluid and solid com- ponents , as that which has been described as characteristic of organized structures . Nevertheless it is indubitable ...
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... Vegetable organism is composed , is identical with Starch in the proportion of its components ; but as these are in a different state of aggregation , it is distinguished as Cellulose . It con- sists of 12 Carbon , 10 Hydrogen , and 10 ...
... Vegetable organism is composed , is identical with Starch in the proportion of its components ; but as these are in a different state of aggregation , it is distinguished as Cellulose . It con- sists of 12 Carbon , 10 Hydrogen , and 10 ...
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... Vegetable kingdom is intermediate between the Animal and the Mineral . For whilst Proteine and Gelatine are ... Vegetables are intermediate between the Animal kingdom and the Inorganic world in another most important particular the ...
... Vegetable kingdom is intermediate between the Animal and the Mineral . For whilst Proteine and Gelatine are ... Vegetables are intermediate between the Animal kingdom and the Inorganic world in another most important particular the ...
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