Nature, Volume 43Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1891 - Electronic journals |
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... whole , it will be seen that it covers to a large extent the same ground as the " Ausführliches Handbuch der Photographie " of Eder , which is also a recognized standard work . In some re- spects Dr. Vogel's book offers advantages over ...
... whole , it will be seen that it covers to a large extent the same ground as the " Ausführliches Handbuch der Photographie " of Eder , which is also a recognized standard work . In some re- spects Dr. Vogel's book offers advantages over ...
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... whole air - column in a summer cyclone , from the ground up to a height of certainly over 5000 metres , is lower than in an anticyclone . It is probable that this holds good for winter cyclones also , if their temperature be compared ...
... whole air - column in a summer cyclone , from the ground up to a height of certainly over 5000 metres , is lower than in an anticyclone . It is probable that this holds good for winter cyclones also , if their temperature be compared ...
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... whole , which will appear shortly in the Philosophical Transactions . The chief results of more general interest , as bearing on the phylogeny of Apteryx and of the Ratitæ generally , may be briefly summarized as follows . In stage A ...
... whole , which will appear shortly in the Philosophical Transactions . The chief results of more general interest , as bearing on the phylogeny of Apteryx and of the Ratitæ generally , may be briefly summarized as follows . In stage A ...
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... whole energies and time to this department of pure science , and now not only its votaries , but the whole mass of mankind , will applaud the magnificence of what has been achieved by patient toil in a laboratory . applicable in its ...
... whole energies and time to this department of pure science , and now not only its votaries , but the whole mass of mankind , will applaud the magnificence of what has been achieved by patient toil in a laboratory . applicable in its ...
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... whole , but the division is restricted to the protoplasm contained within it . A cell with a membrane is , he says , like an encysted Infusorian . Taking the embryonal cell as a type , he believed that both the nucleus and the proto ...
... whole , but the division is restricted to the protoplasm contained within it . A cell with a membrane is , he says , like an encysted Infusorian . Taking the embryonal cell as a type , he believed that both the nucleus and the proto ...
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