Nature, Volume 47Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1893 - Electronic journals |
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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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... Exhibiting the latest progress in Mechanics , Motors , and the Transmission of Power . Edited by PARK BENJAMIN , LL.B. , Ph . D. Editor of " Appleton's Cyclo of Applied Mechanics " Edition of 1880 , Me uber of the American Society of ...
... Exhibiting the latest progress in Mechanics , Motors , and the Transmission of Power . Edited by PARK BENJAMIN , LL.B. , Ph . D. Editor of " Appleton's Cyclo of Applied Mechanics " Edition of 1880 , Me uber of the American Society of ...
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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 ative perfumes , all highly odorous and collected with labour . et this sensitive organization always appeared to be the more range when the horribly stinking smells of two of their common ticles of ...
... exhibited in the use of their own ative perfumes , all highly odorous and collected with labour . et this sensitive organization always appeared to be the more range when the horribly stinking smells of two of their common ticles of ...
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... exhibited some photographs of life - size figures 2 wood , carved by a well - known artist of Maulmain , of the " fr sights " shown to Buddha as Prince Siddhartha on his first viar to the outer world , viz . , the old man , the sick man ...
... exhibited some photographs of life - size figures 2 wood , carved by a well - known artist of Maulmain , of the " fr sights " shown to Buddha as Prince Siddhartha on his first viar to the outer world , viz . , the old man , the sick man ...
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Page 116 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.