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... holes . He then picked up in the laboratory two pieces of glass tubing about ten inches long . He drew out the end of each tube in a gas flame until the opening was about the thickness of pencil lead . Each tube was then bent into the ...
... holes . He then picked up in the laboratory two pieces of glass tubing about ten inches long . He drew out the end of each tube in a gas flame until the opening was about the thickness of pencil lead . Each tube was then bent into the ...
Page 62
... hole in the dike , he had to push out as hard with his finger as the water was pushing in , in order to prevent a ... holes so small as to be invisible even under the microscope but large enough , nontheless , to permit the pas- sage of ...
... hole in the dike , he had to push out as hard with his finger as the water was pushing in , in order to prevent a ... holes so small as to be invisible even under the microscope but large enough , nontheless , to permit the pas- sage of ...
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... hole in the back of the head , reach- ing more or less blindly into the proper region of the brain , and cutting out that piece in which the gland is known to lie . For comparative purposes it is interesting to note that the entire fly ...
... hole in the back of the head , reach- ing more or less blindly into the proper region of the brain , and cutting out that piece in which the gland is known to lie . For comparative purposes it is interesting to note that the entire fly ...
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