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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... species may be sufficiently distinguished from all the others , and that it may be in the power of every person who understands , and is in the possession of the system , to discover by means of it the name of every plant with which he ...
... species may be sufficiently distinguished from all the others , and that it may be in the power of every person who understands , and is in the possession of the system , to discover by means of it the name of every plant with which he ...
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... species . But his descriptions are so imperfect , and his allu- sions so doubtful , that , in spite of the unwearied exertions of his commentators , many of the species to which he alludes remain ambiguous . * As a commence- ment of the ...
... species . But his descriptions are so imperfect , and his allu- sions so doubtful , that , in spite of the unwearied exertions of his commentators , many of the species to which he alludes remain ambiguous . * As a commence- ment of the ...
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... species ; but in many places is far from accurate , often translating from Theophrastus and Dioscorides , with- out understanding the correct meaning of these authors , as has been sufficiently proved by Hermolaus Barbarus , Nicolaus ...
... species ; but in many places is far from accurate , often translating from Theophrastus and Dioscorides , with- out understanding the correct meaning of these authors , as has been sufficiently proved by Hermolaus Barbarus , Nicolaus ...
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... species : an idea which all true botanists have followed ever since , and to which the very existence of botany , as a science , is to be ascribed . He pitched upon the fruit as the part of the plant from which the characters were to be ...
... species : an idea which all true botanists have followed ever since , and to which the very existence of botany , as a science , is to be ascribed . He pitched upon the fruit as the part of the plant from which the characters were to be ...
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... species of the Sorcery of origin the Society . plants have been examined and described , and so admirably arranged , that it is easy to find the place of any one in the system , and even to ascertain its name and relations if it has ...
... species of the Sorcery of origin the Society . plants have been examined and described , and so admirably arranged , that it is easy to find the place of any one in the system , and even to ascertain its name and relations if it has ...
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