History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth CenturyAbridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... curious and important . It originated in Britain , and indeed took its rise from the Royal Society ; and almost all the additions to it , even to our own times , have been made by the Members of that illustrious body . The third branch ...
... curious and important . It originated in Britain , and indeed took its rise from the Royal Society ; and almost all the additions to it , even to our own times , have been made by the Members of that illustrious body . The third branch ...
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... curious critical information occurs . 4. AMALTHEUM BOTANICUM ; seu Stirpium Indicarum alterum Copia Cornu , millenas ad minimam et bis centum diversas Species novas et indictas nominatim comprehendens ; qua- rum sexcenæ et insuper ...
... curious critical information occurs . 4. AMALTHEUM BOTANICUM ; seu Stirpium Indicarum alterum Copia Cornu , millenas ad minimam et bis centum diversas Species novas et indictas nominatim comprehendens ; qua- rum sexcenæ et insuper ...
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... curious , that out of 800 plants described by Sloane , 100 are ferns , and most of the rest arborescent vegetables . It is now well understood , that a much greater proportion of the vegetables which occur in the torrid zone are trees ...
... curious , that out of 800 plants described by Sloane , 100 are ferns , and most of the rest arborescent vegetables . It is now well understood , that a much greater proportion of the vegetables which occur in the torrid zone are trees ...
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... curious matter respecting the functions of plants has been brought to light by the investigations of those philosophers , to whom we are chiefly indebted for the improvements of pneumatic chemistry . The subject was begun by Scheele and ...
... curious matter respecting the functions of plants has been brought to light by the investigations of those philosophers , to whom we are chiefly indebted for the improvements of pneumatic chemistry . The subject was begun by Scheele and ...
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... curious and important fact of the sexual organs of plants , and the man- ner in which impregnation is accomplished , was totally unknown to the ancients . They talk indeed frequently of male and female trees and plants ; but it was some ...
... curious and important fact of the sexual organs of plants , and the man- ner in which impregnation is accomplished , was totally unknown to the ancients . They talk indeed frequently of male and female trees and plants ; but it was some ...
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