Nature, Volume 41Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1890 - Electronic journals |
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... regard to those parts of the subject where a first - rate mathematician has so great an advant- age , we venture to think that the work would have been much more valuable if the writer had taken the trouble to acquaint himself more ...
... regard to those parts of the subject where a first - rate mathematician has so great an advant- age , we venture to think that the work would have been much more valuable if the writer had taken the trouble to acquaint himself more ...
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... regard to quantity , it does not matter how often fish are fed , except that if fed abundantly they will grow rapidly , which is not generally desired . Fish may be fed every day , or but two or three times a week , with equally good ...
... regard to quantity , it does not matter how often fish are fed , except that if fed abundantly they will grow rapidly , which is not generally desired . Fish may be fed every day , or but two or three times a week , with equally good ...
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... regard to the Edentata , Ungulata , Pachydermata , and Carnivora , which still continue to be characteristic representatives of the South American fauna . In two cases only there is evidence that species which are now exclusively ...
... regard to the Edentata , Ungulata , Pachydermata , and Carnivora , which still continue to be characteristic representatives of the South American fauna . In two cases only there is evidence that species which are now exclusively ...
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... regard to the point b of Chernoff . If steel be heated to a temperature above a , but below b , it remains fine ... regards large masses of metal , is certainly not a true hardening process . There has been much divergence of view as to ...
... regard to the point b of Chernoff . If steel be heated to a temperature above a , but below b , it remains fine ... regards large masses of metal , is certainly not a true hardening process . There has been much divergence of view as to ...
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... regards its cells ) which support his view . He says ( p . 126 ) : - " The dis- solution of a cell colony , with its ... regard them as arrested larvæ , Leuckart having found them greatly to resemble the new - born young of Distoma , as ...
... regards its cells ) which support his view . He says ( p . 126 ) : - " The dis- solution of a cell colony , with its ... regard them as arrested larvæ , Leuckart having found them greatly to resemble the new - born young of Distoma , as ...
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Page 39 - become included in the body which has been composed of their metamorphosed and diversely combined or confluent brethren ; so included, any derivative germ-cell or the nucleus of such may commence and repeat the same processes,