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... division of animal life . But it will be observed , there is a hiatus in our knowledge . We cannot say that we know the whole nature and mode of existence of this , or any other animal , until we have traced it to its sexual state ; but ...
... division of animal life . But it will be observed , there is a hiatus in our knowledge . We cannot say that we know the whole nature and mode of existence of this , or any other animal , until we have traced it to its sexual state ; but ...
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... division of their substance - in a way somewhat analogous to that which I detailed when speaking of the Gregarinida — yet , as in that case , we have no knowledge of any true sexual process . It is a most remarkable circumstance that ...
... division of their substance - in a way somewhat analogous to that which I detailed when speaking of the Gregarinida — yet , as in that case , we have no knowledge of any true sexual process . It is a most remarkable circumstance that ...
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... division is the group of the SPONGIDA , which exist under such multitudinous forms in both salt and fresh waters . Up to the last few years we were in the same case , with respect to this class , as with the Gregarinida and the ...
... division is the group of the SPONGIDA , which exist under such multitudinous forms in both salt and fresh waters . Up to the last few years we were in the same case , with respect to this class , as with the Gregarinida and the ...
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... division of the vegetable kingdom . The next group to be considered is the division of the INFU- SORIA ; and here , again , within the last few years , prodigious strides have been made in our knowledge of the subject . Al- though the ...
... division of the vegetable kingdom . The next group to be considered is the division of the INFU- SORIA ; and here , again , within the last few years , prodigious strides have been made in our knowledge of the subject . Al- though the ...
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... Polyzoa . In the next division , the BRACHIOPODA , which are animals . differing very much in external appearance from the Polyzoa , we shall find , nevertheless , a singular fundamental resemblance 26 ON CLASSIFICATION .
... Polyzoa . In the next division , the BRACHIOPODA , which are animals . differing very much in external appearance from the Polyzoa , we shall find , nevertheless , a singular fundamental resemblance 26 ON CLASSIFICATION .
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