History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... colour ; placed on the summit of the filaments . At the time of fecundation , they become covered with a light dust , called the pollen ; which performs the office of fecundating the female organs by falling on them . The female organs ...
... colour ; placed on the summit of the filaments . At the time of fecundation , they become covered with a light dust , called the pollen ; which performs the office of fecundating the female organs by falling on them . The female organs ...
Page 83
... coloured . of shells . The arrangement of shells began at a very early period . Aristotle divided Arrangement them into univalve , bivalve , and turbinated , and he imposed the names of vari- ous genera still retained by modern ...
... coloured . of shells . The arrangement of shells began at a very early period . Aristotle divided Arrangement them into univalve , bivalve , and turbinated , and he imposed the names of vari- ous genera still retained by modern ...
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... colour . The animals inhabiting various species of murer and buccinum furnish this colouring matter . Among these none is more remarkable than the buccinum lapillus , a shell fish to be found in abundance on the shores of Bri- tain ...
... colour . The animals inhabiting various species of murer and buccinum furnish this colouring matter . Among these none is more remarkable than the buccinum lapillus , a shell fish to be found in abundance on the shores of Bri- tain ...
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... coloured juices , which have been always highly prized as dye stuffs . The cochineal , which is a species of this animal , a native of Mexico , and inhabiting a kind of cactus , furnishes the finest red colour known , and has , in some ...
... coloured juices , which have been always highly prized as dye stuffs . The cochineal , which is a species of this animal , a native of Mexico , and inhabiting a kind of cactus , furnishes the finest red colour known , and has , in some ...
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... colour between venous and arte- rial blood . It is well known that arterial blood is of a beautiful scarlet colour , whereas venous blood is dark and almost brown . Lower showed that the colour of the arterial blood was owing to the ...
... colour between venous and arte- rial blood . It is well known that arterial blood is of a beautiful scarlet colour , whereas venous blood is dark and almost brown . Lower showed that the colour of the arterial blood was owing to the ...
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