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He then filled one tube with water and the other with sugar, marked the top level
of fluid in each, stood the two in the preserving jar with their long ends sticking up
through the holes in the screen cover, and by sleight of hand managed to insert ...
He then filled one tube with water and the other with sugar, marked the top level
of fluid in each, stood the two in the preserving jar with their long ends sticking up
through the holes in the screen cover, and by sleight of hand managed to insert ...
Page 42
There was the same old preserving jar, the same two tubes— with additions.
Down the entire length of each tube and completely circumscribing the small
opening of the drinking end was a layer of conducting paint— that paint which
conducts ...
There was the same old preserving jar, the same two tubes— with additions.
Down the entire length of each tube and completely circumscribing the small
opening of the drinking end was a layer of conducting paint— that paint which
conducts ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | To know a fly |
| Author | Vincent Gaston Dethier |
| Publisher | Holden-Day, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2010 |
| Length | 119 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biological research Biology Flies Insects Nature / Insects & Spiders Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology |
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