The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 5

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James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas
Robert Hardwicke, 1866 - Science
 

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Page 219 - The Treasury of Botany, or Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom ; with which is incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms.
Page 210 - The actual presence, therefore, of small species of animals in countries where larger species of the same natural families formerly existed, is not the consequence of any gradual diminution of the size of such species, but is the result of circumstances, which may be illustrated by the fable of the ' Oak and the Reed ; ' the smaller and feebler animals have bent and accommodated themselves to changes which have destroyed the larger species.
Page 298 - Vivian has moved, in the House of Commons, " That an humble address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that she would be graciously pleased to...
Page 443 - Not all the progeny of the primary impregnated germcell are required for the formation of the body in all animals : certain of the derivative germ-cells may remain unchanged and become included in that 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 of growth by imbibition, and of propagation by spontaneous fission, as those to which itself owed...
Page 406 - Stars that are invisible, and, consequently, have no name, move in space together with those that are visible. These invisible stars frequently fall to the earth and are extinguished, as the stony star which fell burning at jEgos Potamos.
Page 349 - Magazine. THE HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, and ACOUSTICS. New Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 400 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5^. cloth. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge.
Page 406 - BC, when, according to a passage in Livy, a shower of stones fell on the Alban Hill, not far distant from Rome. The next in chronological order is mentioned by several writers, such as Diogenes of Apollonia, Plutarch, and Pliny, and described by them as a great stone, the size of two millstones, and equal in weight to a full waggon-load.
Page 16 - In order that the powder on the surface may fall to the bottom, it is stirred round ; the deposit takes place, and the coffee poured off is ready for use. In order to separate the dregs more completely, the coffee may be passed through a clean cloth ; but generally this is not necessary, and often prejudicial to the pure flavour of the beverage.
Page 497 - These and other facts described in the paper had enabled him to arrive at the following conclusions: — (1) That the strata owe their metamorphism to hydrothermal action. (2) That the varying mineralogical character of the rocks is due principally to original differences of chemical composition, and not to infiltration of foreign matter at the time of metamorphism. (3) That the highly alkaline portions of the strata have been most susceptible of change. (4) That in beds having the same composition,...
Page 16 - The one-quarter of the coffee which has been kept back is then thrown in, and the vessel immediately withdrawn from the fire, covered over, and allowed to stand for five or six minutes. In order that the powder on the surface may fall to the bottom it is stirred round ; the deposit takes place, and the coffee poured off is ready for use. In order to separate the dregs more completely the coffee may be passed through a clear cloth, but generally this is not necessary, and often prejudicial to the...

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