Quarterly Journal of Science: 1874, Volume 11John Churchill and Sons, 1874 |
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Página 283
... BOGS . By G. H. Kinahan , M.R.I.A. , & c . III . THE PAST HISTORY OF OUR MOON . By Richard A. Proctor , B.A. IV . MODERN RESEARCHES IN TROPICAL ZOOLOGY . PAGE • 285 294 306 320 V. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS . By F. C. Danvers ...
... BOGS . By G. H. Kinahan , M.R.I.A. , & c . III . THE PAST HISTORY OF OUR MOON . By Richard A. Proctor , B.A. IV . MODERN RESEARCHES IN TROPICAL ZOOLOGY . PAGE • 285 294 306 320 V. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS . By F. C. Danvers ...
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... bogs are numerous , and it is a common oc- currence to find - off a coast where bogs now form the sea margin - peat from 8 to 12 feet deep , even at low water of spring tides , giving a depth below mean high - water mark of from 23 to ...
... bogs are numerous , and it is a common oc- currence to find - off a coast where bogs now form the sea margin - peat from 8 to 12 feet deep , even at low water of spring tides , giving a depth below mean high - water mark of from 23 to ...
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... bogs , the roots and the trunks of the trees under the peat , or in the lowest strata , are principally those of oak and yew , as if prior to the growth of the peat the low country was for the most part a vast forest of these kinds of ...
... bogs , the roots and the trunks of the trees under the peat , or in the lowest strata , are principally those of oak and yew , as if prior to the growth of the peat the low country was for the most part a vast forest of these kinds of ...
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... bogs , however , and in many bogs in the mountainous districts , the lower and upper systems of corkers will belong to deal trees , as if in such places there had been two distinct ages of deal forests . Some of the lowland or red bogs ...
... bogs , however , and in many bogs in the mountainous districts , the lower and upper systems of corkers will belong to deal trees , as if in such places there had been two distinct ages of deal forests . Some of the lowland or red bogs ...
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... bogs , as here the peat grows much more slowly and more densely . In typical mountain bogs the clearing , or partly living organic matter , rarely exceeds 12 inches in depth , and this lies on brown turf , under which there may be black ...
... bogs , as here the peat grows much more slowly and more densely . In typical mountain bogs the clearing , or partly living organic matter , rarely exceeds 12 inches in depth , and this lies on brown turf , under which there may be black ...
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Página 283 - EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE ; or, Researches among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life.
Página 101 - ... without a parallel elsewhere: and this willingness requires but wise direction to enable you effectually to wipe away the reproach of De Tocqueville. Your most difficult problem will be not to build institutions but to discover men. You may erect laboratories and endow them; you may furnish them with all the appliances needed for...
Página 233 - ... •If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity, and that a time will com* when it will cease to burn.
Página 86 - Wynne — their most minute accounts of what took place. To reject the recorded evidence on this subject is to reject all human testimony whatever ; for no fact in sacred or profane history is supported by a stronger array of proofs
Página 273 - ... that the rising of the pith was only due to currents of air, and that at this near approach to a vacuum the residual air was too highly rarefied to have power in its rising to overcome the inertia of the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed evident that when the last trace of air had been removed from the tube surrounding the balance — when the balance was suspended in empty space...