Nature, Том 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 |
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... examination of the basalt - plateaux and associated dykes in the west of Scotland has assured me that this view of their origin and connection , which first suggested itself to my mind on the lava - plains of Idaho , furnishes the true ...
... examination of the basalt - plateaux and associated dykes in the west of Scotland has assured me that this view of their origin and connection , which first suggested itself to my mind on the lava - plains of Idaho , furnishes the true ...
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... examination of the plates FIG . 4. - Las Monjas Chichen Itza ( Plate 21 ) . will prove the profuse employment of the more or less grotesquely modified human face in mural decoration . The hypertrophy of one set of organs , with the ...
... examination of the plates FIG . 4. - Las Monjas Chichen Itza ( Plate 21 ) . will prove the profuse employment of the more or less grotesquely modified human face in mural decoration . The hypertrophy of one set of organs , with the ...
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... examination of the oil of hops , separating . the different chemical components , and finding amongst them quercitrin and morin - tannic acid . At this epoch he succeeded in obtaining the remarkable alloy formed by the union of four ...
... examination of the oil of hops , separating . the different chemical components , and finding amongst them quercitrin and morin - tannic acid . At this epoch he succeeded in obtaining the remarkable alloy formed by the union of four ...
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... examination of the physiography of that country , and of the fossils which he there collected , when , as a member of the expe- dition under the leadership of Dr. Rohlfs , he visited the Libyan Desert in the winter of 1873-74 . THE ...
... examination of the physiography of that country , and of the fossils which he there collected , when , as a member of the expe- dition under the leadership of Dr. Rohlfs , he visited the Libyan Desert in the winter of 1873-74 . THE ...
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... examination of the African Landolphias and Malayan rubber - yielding Willugh- beias , and the results will be given in the next report . Addi- tional facts to those contained in the previous Report are given on the introduction of South ...
... examination of the African Landolphias and Malayan rubber - yielding Willugh- beias , and the results will be given in the next report . Addi- tional facts to those contained in the previous Report are given on the introduction of South ...
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Сторінка 326 - I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still, O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart ; O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air ; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters.
Сторінка 312 - Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the later chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Сторінка 81 - Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations...
Сторінка 101 - On which the comment may be that one who had studied celestial mechanics as much as the reviewer has studied the general course of transformations, might similarly have remarked that the formula — " bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances," was at best but a blank form for solar systems and sidereal clusters.
Сторінка 326 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Сторінка 312 - On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years...
Сторінка 67 - For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct practical use, which can be studied apart from another sort of scientific knowledge, which is of no practical utility, and which is termed "pure science.
Сторінка 227 - Judged from this point of view, there can be no doubt that the Monotremes embody that type of structure which constitutes the earliest stage of mammalian organisation : — 1.
Сторінка 302 - The above experiments appear to prove conclusively that the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow belt in depth, and that there is no intermediate belt, so to speak, of animal life, between those living on the bottom, or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna.
Сторінка 100 - Without further remark we shall give Newton's Three Laws ; it being remembered that as the properties of matter might have been such as to render a totally different set of laws axiomatic, these laws must be considered as resting on convictions drawn from observation and experiment and not on intuitive perception?