The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volumen9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... carry direct to the nervous centres in quick and steady stream . It is true we can produce the effect we want in another way , by another mode of entrance . For example , I have recently found it quite possible and easy to put an animal ...
... carry direct to the nervous centres in quick and steady stream . It is true we can produce the effect we want in another way , by another mode of entrance . For example , I have recently found it quite possible and easy to put an animal ...
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... carried on and nearly two hundredweight of the sea bottom , with its living inhabitants and the skeletons of the recently dead , has revealed a submarine life at a depth of more than 2,000 fathoms , not less varied nor less numerous ...
... carried on and nearly two hundredweight of the sea bottom , with its living inhabitants and the skeletons of the recently dead , has revealed a submarine life at a depth of more than 2,000 fathoms , not less varied nor less numerous ...
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... carried on with im- proved means of determining bottom temperature , have made it clear that there are well marked deep areas that possess a warm temperature , not very far from other areas where the bottom temperature is uniformly low ...
... carried on with im- proved means of determining bottom temperature , have made it clear that there are well marked deep areas that possess a warm temperature , not very far from other areas where the bottom temperature is uniformly low ...
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... carried off to other blossoms . Moreover , when the bee leaves a flower , the stigma is already occupied with the foreign pollen which the insect left there in entering , and there is , consequently , little or no exposure of viscid ...
... carried off to other blossoms . Moreover , when the bee leaves a flower , the stigma is already occupied with the foreign pollen which the insect left there in entering , and there is , consequently , little or no exposure of viscid ...
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... carry the disk away from the stigma right across the corolla , until it comes into contact with the anterior lip , where it remains fixed ( fig . 9 , b ) . It is plain that when a bee visits a flower in this later condition , the same ...
... carry the disk away from the stigma right across the corolla , until it comes into contact with the anterior lip , where it remains fixed ( fig . 9 , b ) . It is plain that when a bee visits a flower in this later condition , the same ...
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