The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 - Science |
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... species , but it still remains doubtful whether it should not constitute the type of a new genus . The mould above described having become established for a week or two , small blackish spots made their appearance on the paper ...
... species , but it still remains doubtful whether it should not constitute the type of a new genus . The mould above described having become established for a week or two , small blackish spots made their appearance on the paper ...
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... species , but the accuracy of this determination is open to very grave doubts . The mycelium and erect threads are much too highly developed for a good species of Sporidesmium , and certainly so for the species to which they were ...
... species , but the accuracy of this determination is open to very grave doubts . The mycelium and erect threads are much too highly developed for a good species of Sporidesmium , and certainly so for the species to which they were ...
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... species are at first hyaline , simple , and connected together in a moniliform manner by a short apiculus ; but , as subsequent search did not reveal any further corroborative evidence , it can only be considered probable . Finally , Mr ...
... species are at first hyaline , simple , and connected together in a moniliform manner by a short apiculus ; but , as subsequent search did not reveal any further corroborative evidence , it can only be considered probable . Finally , Mr ...
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... species , now included in the two great families of Coniomycetes and Hyphomycetes are autonomous . But , because it is possible , it by no means follows that we are prepared to condemn them by wholesale , or to admit that there is at ...
... species , now included in the two great families of Coniomycetes and Hyphomycetes are autonomous . But , because it is possible , it by no means follows that we are prepared to condemn them by wholesale , or to admit that there is at ...
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... species of Sphæria , that they can no longer be regarded as plants with a distinct autonomy and independent existence , we are unable to explain the relations which one bears to the other , or by what means each exerts its influence ...
... species of Sphæria , that they can no longer be regarded as plants with a distinct autonomy and independent existence , we are unable to explain the relations which one bears to the other , or by what means each exerts its influence ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and 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...