History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... observations of Du- hamel and Hedwig ; but Mirbel is the physiologist who has studied the sub- ject with the greatest industry . The vessels of vegetables , as far as we are acquainted with them , are of five different kinds . 1 ...
... observations of Du- hamel and Hedwig ; but Mirbel is the physiologist who has studied the sub- ject with the greatest industry . The vessels of vegetables , as far as we are acquainted with them , are of five different kinds . 1 ...
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... observations of Mr. Knight it would not be surprizing if these vessels were furnished with a kind of imperfect valves . He has shown at least that they are much better fitted to carry the true True sap . sap ( as the liquid which they ...
... observations of Mr. Knight it would not be surprizing if these vessels were furnished with a kind of imperfect valves . He has shown at least that they are much better fitted to carry the true True sap . sap ( as the liquid which they ...
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... observations of Dr. Watson who relates it , that the plants would have admitted of still greater divisions , and that of course the increase might have been still greater . † XII . Mr. Daines Barrington published an elaborate paper , to ...
... observations of Dr. Watson who relates it , that the plants would have admitted of still greater divisions , and that of course the increase might have been still greater . † XII . Mr. Daines Barrington published an elaborate paper , to ...
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... observations , it ap- pears that most of the old varieties of apple and pear tree , are worn out with old age . age . When a When a young tree is engrafted , from a branch of an old tree , the branch retains all the defects of the old ...
... observations , it ap- pears that most of the old varieties of apple and pear tree , are worn out with old age . age . When a When a young tree is engrafted , from a branch of an old tree , the branch retains all the defects of the old ...
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... observations . The subsequent classification of Linnæus was merely an extension and improvement of the method of Ray . The first of Mr. Ray's zoological works , if we except the ornithology and ichthyology of Willughby , which he edited ...
... observations . The subsequent classification of Linnæus was merely an extension and improvement of the method of Ray . The first of Mr. Ray's zoological works , if we except the ornithology and ichthyology of Willughby , which he edited ...
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