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... distributed . Even on the polar ice the air resounds with the cries or songs of birds , and with the hum of insects . Nor is it only the lower dense and vaporous strata of the atmosphere which are thus filled with life , but also the ...
... distributed . Even on the polar ice the air resounds with the cries or songs of birds , and with the hum of insects . Nor is it only the lower dense and vaporous strata of the atmosphere which are thus filled with life , but also the ...
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... distributed throughout the atmosphere , when armed with the microscope we discover far other marvels . Rotiferæ , Brachionæ , and a multitude of microscopic animalculæ , are carried up by the winds from the surface of evaporating waters ...
... distributed throughout the atmosphere , when armed with the microscope we discover far other marvels . Rotiferæ , Brachionæ , and a multitude of microscopic animalculæ , are carried up by the winds from the surface of evaporating waters ...
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... distribution , and the grouping of which the physiognomy of the vegetation of a country depends , we must not follow the march of systems of botany , in which from other motives the parts chiefly regarded are the smaller organs of ...
... distribution , and the grouping of which the physiognomy of the vegetation of a country depends , we must not follow the march of systems of botany , in which from other motives the parts chiefly regarded are the smaller organs of ...
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... distribution of the leaves and the form of the stems and of the branches are blended together . The painter ( and here the artist's delicate tact and appreciation of nature are demanded ) can distinguish in the middle distance and ...
... distribution of the leaves and the form of the stems and of the branches are blended together . The painter ( and here the artist's delicate tact and appreciation of nature are demanded ) can distinguish in the middle distance and ...
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... distribution inconsistent with our present climates , they also disclose to us gigantic forms that contrast no less with those which now surround us , than does the simple heroism of the Greeks with the character of human greatness in ...
... distribution inconsistent with our present climates , they also disclose to us gigantic forms that contrast no less with those which now surround us , than does the simple heroism of the Greeks with the character of human greatness in ...
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