Nature, Volume 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 - Electronic journals |
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... 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 . There is usually no difficulty in telling what a thing is " ( p . 50 ) . Hence it appears that the ...
... 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 . There is usually no difficulty in telling what a thing is " ( p . 50 ) . Hence it appears that the ...
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... less force . " Surely the translator is to blame for some of these sentences . • The theory of valency deserved a more rigorous and exact treatment than M. Wurtz has given it . We leave the book , feeling that it is the production of a ...
... less force . " Surely the translator is to blame for some of these sentences . • The theory of valency deserved a more rigorous and exact treatment than M. Wurtz has given it . We leave the book , feeling that it is the production of a ...
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... less grotesquely modified human face in mural decoration . The hypertrophy of one set of organs , with the atrophy of another , and modification of a third , are paralleled in the specialisations of all degraded forms . ALFRED C. HADDON ...
... less grotesquely modified human face in mural decoration . The hypertrophy of one set of organs , with the atrophy of another , and modification of a third , are paralleled in the specialisations of all degraded forms . ALFRED C. HADDON ...
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... less than the hundredth of a second apart produce a discon- tinuous molecular action of alternate expansion and con- traction , then the mysterious property of matter revealed by these experiments is accounted for . However this may be ...
... less than the hundredth of a second apart produce a discon- tinuous molecular action of alternate expansion and con- traction , then the mysterious property of matter revealed by these experiments is accounted for . However this may be ...
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... less in front of the fixed one more or less of the light was cut off . Speaking to the diaphragm there- fore caused vibrations which shut or opened , as it were , a door for the beam of light , and altered its intensity . The mirror ...
... less in front of the fixed one more or less of the light was cut off . Speaking to the diaphragm there- fore caused vibrations which shut or opened , as it were , a door for the beam of light , and altered its intensity . The mirror ...
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