The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volumen10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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... Flowers Worth Notice , ' ' The British Ferns , ' & c . The Figures by J. E. SOWERBY , JAMES SOWERBY , F.L.S. , J. DE C. SOWERBY , F.L.S. , and J. W. SALTER , A The Distinctive Characteristics of this Edition are- 1. A Life - size ...
... Flowers Worth Notice , ' ' The British Ferns , ' & c . The Figures by J. E. SOWERBY , JAMES SOWERBY , F.L.S. , J. DE C. SOWERBY , F.L.S. , and J. W. SALTER , A The Distinctive Characteristics of this Edition are- 1. A Life - size ...
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... flower , such as the Angræcum Sesquipedale of Madagascar , with a very deep nectary , and a supply of nectar at the bottom of it . This can only be reached by a moth with a very long proboscis . Suppose also that this nectary has , from ...
... flower , such as the Angræcum Sesquipedale of Madagascar , with a very deep nectary , and a supply of nectar at the bottom of it . This can only be reached by a moth with a very long proboscis . Suppose also that this nectary has , from ...
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... flower or leaf , he carefully selects all in- dividuals that approximate towards it , guards them from in- jurious influences , secures their inter - breeding , and takes them , in short , by his protecting care out of the natural ...
... flower or leaf , he carefully selects all in- dividuals that approximate towards it , guards them from in- jurious influences , secures their inter - breeding , and takes them , in short , by his protecting care out of the natural ...
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... flowers , and in its passage is often covered with pollen . Hence , those butterflies which flit from flower to flower indiscriminately , such as the Peacock or Admiral , would be likely to carry from one flower to another pollen grains ...
... flowers , and in its passage is often covered with pollen . Hence , those butterflies which flit from flower to flower indiscriminately , such as the Peacock or Admiral , would be likely to carry from one flower to another pollen grains ...
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... flowers appear at the ends of the vigorous shoots bearing the female flowers . Whatever affects the vigour of the tree inter- feres with the production of female but not of male flowers , and this was the reason why some seasons had ...
... flowers appear at the ends of the vigorous shoots bearing the female flowers . Whatever affects the vigour of the tree inter- feres with the production of female but not of male flowers , and this was the reason why some seasons had ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...