Nature, Volume 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 - Electronic journals |
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... fact " that the distribution of living beings has no depth - limit , but that animals of all the marine invertebrate classes , and probably fishes also , exist over the whole of the floor of the ocean . " As to the exact nature of this ...
... fact " that the distribution of living beings has no depth - limit , but that animals of all the marine invertebrate classes , and probably fishes also , exist over the whole of the floor of the ocean . " As to the exact nature of this ...
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... fact , from the sentences which end the " Introduction " it seems doubtful whether they are not less than in many other cases . " Transition forms linking species so closely as to cause a doubt as to their limit are rarely met with ...
... fact , from the sentences which end the " Introduction " it seems doubtful whether they are not less than in many other cases . " Transition forms linking species so closely as to cause a doubt as to their limit are rarely met with ...
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... fact it has fallen between these limits , and nearer the higher than the lower , the average mean speed at the measured distance being 15.864 knots . The details of the several runs , which have not previously been published in London ...
... fact it has fallen between these limits , and nearer the higher than the lower , the average mean speed at the measured distance being 15.864 knots . The details of the several runs , which have not previously been published in London ...
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... fact ( ascertained by " sounding " ) that a for- ward compartment of the double bottom had been some- how filled , so effectually was the ship proper preserved from all injury within the double bottom , and so little effect had the ...
... fact ( ascertained by " sounding " ) that a for- ward compartment of the double bottom had been some- how filled , so effectually was the ship proper preserved from all injury within the double bottom , and so little effect had the ...
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... fact the donations have of late years become so numerous that they have not unfre- quently rivalled in number and interest the objects acquired by purchase . Taking the acquisitions from these two sources together , there are always a ...
... fact the donations have of late years become so numerous that they have not unfre- quently rivalled in number and interest the objects acquired by purchase . Taking the acquisitions from these two sources together , there are always a ...
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