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... described by Ptolemy as Chuns ( hence the later territorial name of Chunigard ! ) are a Finnish tribe , from the Ural mountains , which separate the two continents— pp . 80-81 . Representations of the sun , animals , and characters ...
... described by Ptolemy as Chuns ( hence the later territorial name of Chunigard ! ) are a Finnish tribe , from the Ural mountains , which separate the two continents— pp . 80-81 . Representations of the sun , animals , and characters ...
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... described or are preserved in herba- riums . Numerical ratios of plant - forms . Discovered laws of the geogra phical distribution of the families . Ratios of the great divisions : of the Cryptogamia to the Cotyledons , and of the ...
... described or are preserved in herba- riums . Numerical ratios of plant - forms . Discovered laws of the geogra phical distribution of the families . Ratios of the great divisions : of the Cryptogamia to the Cotyledons , and of the ...
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... described and undescribed , in our herbariums ; it is probable that the number of collected insects scarcely equals that number of phanerogamia ; whereas in individual European districts the insects collected preponderate in a threefold ...
... described and undescribed , in our herbariums ; it is probable that the number of collected insects scarcely equals that number of phanerogamia ; whereas in individual European districts the insects collected preponderate in a threefold ...
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... described as extending in equal breadth to the Straits of Magellan , unmindful that it is intersected by the wooded plain of the Amazon , which is bounded to the north by the grassy Steppes of the Apure , and to the south by those of ...
... described as extending in equal breadth to the Straits of Magellan , unmindful that it is intersected by the wooded plain of the Amazon , which is bounded to the north by the grassy Steppes of the Apure , and to the south by those of ...
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... described by Willdenow ( in his Hortus Berolinensis , 1816 , Tab . xxvii . ) . The elevation of the Lake of Tacarigua above the level of the sea is almost 1400 French feet ( according to my measurement , exactly 230 toises , i.e. , 1471 ...
... described by Willdenow ( in his Hortus Berolinensis , 1816 , Tab . xxvii . ) . The elevation of the Lake of Tacarigua above the level of the sea is almost 1400 French feet ( according to my measurement , exactly 230 toises , i.e. , 1471 ...
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