Nature, Volume 47Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1893 - Science |
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... exhibited a structure wholly different from that of any plant previously known , recent or fossil . In the centre of each stem was a primary vascular bundle , the transverse section of which was a triangle with three concave sides and ...
... exhibited a structure wholly different from that of any plant previously known , recent or fossil . In the centre of each stem was a primary vascular bundle , the transverse section of which was a triangle with three concave sides and ...
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... exhibited seeds of the " Bean - tree , " possibly an Erythrina , from Macdonald ranges , Central Australia . The seeds are strung and used as necklaces by the aborigines , who use the wood of the same tree for producing fire by friction ...
... exhibited seeds of the " Bean - tree , " possibly an Erythrina , from Macdonald ranges , Central Australia . The seeds are strung and used as necklaces by the aborigines , who use the wood of the same tree for producing fire by friction ...
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... exhibited in the use of their own native perfumes , all highly odorous and collected with labour . Yet this sensitive organization always appeared to be the more strange when the horribly stinking smells of two of their common articles ...
... exhibited in the use of their own native perfumes , all highly odorous and collected with labour . Yet this sensitive organization always appeared to be the more strange when the horribly stinking smells of two of their common articles ...
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... exhibited some photographs of life - size figures wood , carved by a well - known artist of Maulmain , of the " f sights " shown to Buddha as Prince Siddhartha on his first visi to the outer world , viz . , the old man , the sick man ...
... exhibited some photographs of life - size figures wood , carved by a well - known artist of Maulmain , of the " f sights " shown to Buddha as Prince Siddhartha on his first visi to the outer world , viz . , the old man , the sick man ...
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... exhibited specimens of lyommatus dispar var , rutilus , taken in England by his father bout sixty years ago . He stated that it was generally believed at this form of the species was confined to the Continent , but is specimens proved ...
... exhibited specimens of lyommatus dispar var , rutilus , taken in England by his father bout sixty years ago . He stated that it was generally believed at this form of the species was confined to the Continent , but is specimens proved ...
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