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... considered , and not parts of a series or chain of species - a fact illustrated in the chapter on the Classification of Crustacea . Second , that the preponderance of cold - water species is the re- verse of what must have been true in ...
... considered , and not parts of a series or chain of species - a fact illustrated in the chapter on the Classification of Crustacea . Second , that the preponderance of cold - water species is the re- verse of what must have been true in ...
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... considered as proved for the northern part of the region , by the fact that at Sitka , on the northwest coast of America , the pressure of the dry air increases from win- ter to summer . It is not probable that the overflow takes place ...
... considered as proved for the northern part of the region , by the fact that at Sitka , on the northwest coast of America , the pressure of the dry air increases from win- ter to summer . It is not probable that the overflow takes place ...
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... considered by almost all chemists as a principle itself pure , though this white has in it various salts and a sulphurous body which can be separated from the albumen by different reagents without producing the decomposition of that ...
... considered by almost all chemists as a principle itself pure , though this white has in it various salts and a sulphurous body which can be separated from the albumen by different reagents without producing the decomposition of that ...
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... considered , and when it is seen that grains of ichthin , by the regularity of their form , offer all the characteristics of a really pure principle , it is impos- sible not to consider it as one of the most interesting substances in ...
... considered , and when it is seen that grains of ichthin , by the regularity of their form , offer all the characteristics of a really pure principle , it is impos- sible not to consider it as one of the most interesting substances in ...
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... considered to contain one hundred and one units , but that in the ternary measure it is the ex- pression for 10. Barlow's Rule for reducing numbers in the denary measure to any other measure is as follows : Divide the given number and ...
... considered to contain one hundred and one units , but that in the ternary measure it is the ex- pression for 10. Barlow's Rule for reducing numbers in the denary measure to any other measure is as follows : Divide the given number and ...
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Página 300 - An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with a collection of Astronomical Tables ; by Prof. ELIAS LOOMIS, LL.D., &c. — Every cultivator of practical astronomy must have felt the want of some treatise embracing within moderate compass the requisite formulae and tables, together with descriptions of the most approved instruments and methods of observation.
Página 316 - Temple, which afforded a good view of the entire scene. On a sudden, all traffic in the thronged mart was suspended, porters cleared the front street of every description of merchandise, boatmen ceased lading and unlading their vessels, and put out into the middle of the stream, so that a few moments sufficed to give a deserted appearance to the busiest part of one of the busiest cities of Asia.
Página 299 - Parallel of latitude lying between Dona Ana on the Rio Grande and Pimas Villages on the Gila ; by Lieut.
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Página 179 - ... of the point. Grains of sand were thus pouring over the rocks in countless myriads, under the influence of the powerful current of air which seems to sweep constantly through this pass from the ocean to the interior. Wherever I turned my eyes, — on the horizontal tables of rock, or on the vertical faces turned to the wind, — the effects of the sand were visible: there was not a point untouched, — the grains had engraved their track on every stone. Even quartz was cut away and polished;...