Report of the Annual Meeting, Issue 63J. Murray., 1894 - Science |
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... Movements Physical Aspect of the Moon Vitality of Seeds Map of the World .. 425 10 11 1851 . 10 7 11 15 00 500 4 0 0 09870 0051 Maintaining the Establish- ment at Kew Observatory ( includes part of grant in 1849 ) Theory of Heat ...
... Movements Physical Aspect of the Moon Vitality of Seeds Map of the World .. 425 10 11 1851 . 10 7 11 15 00 500 4 0 0 09870 0051 Maintaining the Establish- ment at Kew Observatory ( includes part of grant in 1849 ) Theory of Heat ...
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... movements in the water in which it swims , and of guiding these movements accordingly . In the lowest vertebrates , as , e.g. , in the dogfish , although the auditory apparatus is much more complicated in structure , and plainly ...
... movements in the water in which it swims , and of guiding these movements accordingly . In the lowest vertebrates , as , e.g. , in the dogfish , although the auditory apparatus is much more complicated in structure , and plainly ...
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... movement is modified by the influence of auxiliary or antagonistic conditions , or changed by the simultaneous or antecedent action on the reagent of other stimuli , in all of which cases the effect can be expressed quantitatively ...
... movement is modified by the influence of auxiliary or antagonistic conditions , or changed by the simultaneous or antecedent action on the reagent of other stimuli , in all of which cases the effect can be expressed quantitatively ...
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... movements of freely moving cells , or , as it is termed , phototaxis . The rod - like purple organism called by Engel- mann ... movement is not physical but chemical . The spectral light trap is used in the way already described ; the or ...
... movements of freely moving cells , or , as it is termed , phototaxis . The rod - like purple organism called by Engel- mann ... movement is not physical but chemical . The spectral light trap is used in the way already described ; the or ...
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... movements of the antherozoids of ferns and of mosses are guided by impressions derived from chemical sources , by the allure- ment exercised upon them by certain chemical substances in solution- in one of the instances mentioned by ...
... movements of the antherozoids of ferns and of mosses are guided by impressions derived from chemical sources , by the allure- ment exercised upon them by certain chemical substances in solution- in one of the instances mentioned by ...
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