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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... positions . He summed up a series of thermometer readings extending over forty years , dividing them into two sections - the one including fourteen days about full moon , the other , fourteen days about the epoch of new moon ; and it re ...
... positions . He summed up a series of thermometer readings extending over forty years , dividing them into two sections - the one including fourteen days about full moon , the other , fourteen days about the epoch of new moon ; and it re ...
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... position as an- æsthetics . Nitrous oxide , indeed , has of late been greatly extolled and raised into fervour of favour by the members of the Dental profession . Ether has been persistently employed in some parts of America and some ...
... position as an- æsthetics . Nitrous oxide , indeed , has of late been greatly extolled and raised into fervour of favour by the members of the Dental profession . Ether has been persistently employed in some parts of America and some ...
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... position , has always been a subject of enquiry with geologists , and the theories suggested have been numerous and varied . It was not till a necessity arose for determining the depth of the sea bottom across the Atlantic , preparatory ...
... position , has always been a subject of enquiry with geologists , and the theories suggested have been numerous and varied . It was not till a necessity arose for determining the depth of the sea bottom across the Atlantic , preparatory ...
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... position of this remarkable substance is not Huxley's Appendix to Capt . Dayman's account of Deep - Sea Soundings in H.M.S. Cyclops . yet satisfactorily made out , but the bottom temperature that 28 POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW .
... position of this remarkable substance is not Huxley's Appendix to Capt . Dayman's account of Deep - Sea Soundings in H.M.S. Cyclops . yet satisfactorily made out , but the bottom temperature that 28 POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW .
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... position . There is nothing in this assumption in any way opposed to what is already known regarding the elevation of the earth's surface , during the tertiary period in Europe , Asia , and Africa . On the contrary , a change of level ...
... position . There is nothing in this assumption in any way opposed to what is already known regarding the elevation of the earth's surface , during the tertiary period in Europe , Asia , and Africa . On the contrary , a change of level ...
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Página 95 - ... and I believe a little earth was plastered over the whole, so as to make the surface of the grave smooth and compact.
Página 167 - It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct, belonging by inheritance to the whole species, but is in each case the result of individual experience. As with the same experience some bees have acquired the habit and others have not, we must admit not only that these insects are intelligent, but that they differ from each other in their degrees of intelligence, some being slow in acquiring knowledge, others quicker.
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