The American Naturalist, Volumen30Essex Institute, 1896 |
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... fact , he does not stop to consider the difference between seedlings and sexless plants in his efforts to improve a type , for he knows by experience that he is able to modify his plants in an equal degree , whatever the origin of the ...
... fact , he does not stop to consider the difference between seedlings and sexless plants in his efforts to improve a type , for he knows by experience that he is able to modify his plants in an equal degree , whatever the origin of the ...
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... fact it is begun with 1845 ? As Ascher- son and Engler point out , their limitation substantially makes it im- material whether the nominal starting point is 1753 or 1690. The labored distinction between generic and specific ...
... fact it is begun with 1845 ? As Ascher- son and Engler point out , their limitation substantially makes it im- material whether the nominal starting point is 1753 or 1690. The labored distinction between generic and specific ...
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... fact that the infusoria found by him , only appeared in urine plainly alkaline , which contained animal matter ( broken down epithelial cells , pus , albumen ) , and which had been exposed sometime to the air . In no case did he find ...
... fact that the infusoria found by him , only appeared in urine plainly alkaline , which contained animal matter ( broken down epithelial cells , pus , albumen ) , and which had been exposed sometime to the air . In no case did he find ...
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... fact that it is a national institution , renders the De- partment of Insects perhaps the best place in this country for the per- manent deposits of types by working specialists in entomology , and for the ultimate resting - place of ...
... fact that it is a national institution , renders the De- partment of Insects perhaps the best place in this country for the per- manent deposits of types by working specialists in entomology , and for the ultimate resting - place of ...
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... fact that fewer eggs develop from the four - fold than from the three - fold cleavage . A third paper gives a detailed account of the partial larvæ obtained when the eggs of Sphærechinus are shaken into fragments . Very min- ute ...
... fact that fewer eggs develop from the four - fold than from the three - fold cleavage . A third paper gives a detailed account of the partial larvæ obtained when the eggs of Sphærechinus are shaken into fragments . Very min- ute ...
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Página 878 - Its power of inducing fermentation in a solution of sugar was entirely destroyed, although no perceptible change in the appearance of the yeast cells could be detected under the microscope. This experiment was repeated several times, and always with the same result, although when the yeast was simply washed in water it readily induced fermentation.
Página 182 - Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures.
Página 818 - With this, the priest disappeared. I awoke at once and immediately told my wife the dream that I might not forget it. Next morning — Sunday — I examined the fragments once more in the light of these disclosures, and to my astonishment found all the details of the dream precisely verified in so far as the means of verification were in my hands. The original inscription on the votive cylinder read: "To the god Ninib, son of Bel, his lord, has Kurigalzu, pontifex of Bel, presented this.
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Página 643 - ... 3. They show no intimate association in areal distribution with the blue limestone, nor any tendency to grade into it." " 4. The metamorphic changes to which the white limestones have been subjected are general in their nature, and...
Página 525 - With the opposite (withdrawing, depressive affects) in injurious and painful conditions. ments) — but by the reinstatement of it by a discharge of the energies of the organism, concentrated as far as may be for the excessive stimulation of the organs (muscles, etc.) most nearly fitted by former habit to get this stimulation again (in which the " stimulation " stands for the condition favorable to adaptation).
Página 952 - We must therefore picture to ourselves a fertile plain occupying the whole of the Bristol Channel, and supporting herds of reindeer, horses, and bisons, many elephants and rhinoceroses, and now and then being traversed by a stray hippopotamus, which would afford abundant prey to the lions, bears, and hyaenas, inhabiting all the accessible caves, as well as to their great enemy and destroyer, man."* III.
Página 416 - heightened discharge " are capable of formulation of the principle of " motor excess " : " the accommodation of an organism to a new stimulation is secured — not by the selection of this stimulation beforehand (nor of the necessary movements) — but by the reinstatement of it by a discharge of the energies of the organism, concentrated, as far as may be, for the excessive stimulation of the organs (muscles, etc.), most nearly fitted by former habit to get this stimulation again," '' in which...
Página 495 - ... on the way to Pawtucket; he wanted to get away somewhere — he didn't know where — and have rest. He had six or seven hundred dollars with him when he went into the store. He lived very closely, boarded by himself, and did his own cooking. He went to church, and also to one prayer-meeting. At one of these meetings he spoke about a boy who had kneeled down and prayed in the midst of the passengers on a steamboat from Albany to New York [an incident of which he was well aware in the Ansel Bourne...