Nature, Volume 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 - Electronic journals |
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... received by most European geologists with incredulity , if not with some more pronounced form of dissent . Yet I am convinced that they are well founded , and that a striking illustration of their truth is supplied by the greatest of ...
... received by most European geologists with incredulity , if not with some more pronounced form of dissent . Yet I am convinced that they are well founded , and that a striking illustration of their truth is supplied by the greatest of ...
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... received due acknowledgment on this side of the Atlantic , where the lesser type of cones and craters has been regarded as that by which all volcanic manifesta- tions must be judged . We are fortunate in possessing in the north - west ...
... received due acknowledgment on this side of the Atlantic , where the lesser type of cones and craters has been regarded as that by which all volcanic manifesta- tions must be judged . We are fortunate in possessing in the north - west ...
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... receiving station . We may in like manner classify the forms of photophone under two heads , as ( 1 ) articu- lating photophones , and ( 2 ) musical photo- phones ; the former being able to transmit speech because they work by beams of ...
... receiving station . We may in like manner classify the forms of photophone under two heads , as ( 1 ) articu- lating photophones , and ( 2 ) musical photo- phones ; the former being able to transmit speech because they work by beams of ...
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... received by a lens T , or a pair of lenses upon a common support , whose function is to render the beam once more ... receiving instrument , but will cover a much wider area . Of the whole beam , therefore , only a rela- tively small ...
... received by a lens T , or a pair of lenses upon a common support , whose function is to render the beam once more ... receiving instrument , but will cover a much wider area . Of the whole beam , therefore , only a rela- tively small ...
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... received a severe shock on account of the Tay Bridge disaster and the proceedings consequent on it . M. ERHARD , the well - known French cartographer , died on October 23. M. Erhard was a naturalised Frenchman , having been born at ...
... received a severe shock on account of the Tay Bridge disaster and the proceedings consequent on it . M. ERHARD , the well - known French cartographer , died on October 23. M. Erhard was a naturalised Frenchman , having been born at ...
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