The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 sivua |
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Sivu 21
... Plants compared with that of Animals · IX . On the general Analogy of Animal and Vegetable Life X. On the Principle of Life , Irritability , and Muscular Power . XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk , Feathers ...
... Plants compared with that of Animals · IX . On the general Analogy of Animal and Vegetable Life X. On the Principle of Life , Irritability , and Muscular Power . XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk , Feathers ...
Sivu 58
... plants in the balmy air of the morning : and hence one reason , though there is also another that concurs with it , and which I shall explain presently , for the convex shape assumed by a wine - glass of liquid of any kind , on its ...
... plants in the balmy air of the morning : and hence one reason , though there is also another that concurs with it , and which I shall explain presently , for the convex shape assumed by a wine - glass of liquid of any kind , on its ...
Sivu 68
... plants , mosses , and other cryptogamic productions , which occupy the lowest part in the scale of vegetable life , as zoophytic worms do among animals . It is here , also , that carbonaceous matter , which is chiefly of vegetable ...
... plants , mosses , and other cryptogamic productions , which occupy the lowest part in the scale of vegetable life , as zoophytic worms do among animals . It is here , also , that carbonaceous matter , which is chiefly of vegetable ...
Sivu 69
... plants ; eggs , birds , and birds ' nests ; preserving them from decay , by defending them from the action of the air . The clay and sand sometimes contain petrified wood ; and in many parts are found the skeletons of quadrupeds , even ...
... plants ; eggs , birds , and birds ' nests ; preserving them from decay , by defending them from the action of the air . The clay and sand sometimes contain petrified wood ; and in many parts are found the skeletons of quadrupeds , even ...
Sivu 72
... plants , whose seeds are in like manner wafted about on the wings of the breeze , or casually dropped with the excretions of birds or other animals that pass over them . In several parts , observes M. Cuvier , these proceed with a ...
... plants , whose seeds are in like manner wafted about on the wings of the breeze , or casually dropped with the excretions of birds or other animals that pass over them . In several parts , observes M. Cuvier , these proceed with a ...
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