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... lower limb , the least refrangible end of the spectrum would be disclosed . By projecting a large image of the sun into a darkened room I was enabled to get the whole of the spectrum produced by the prismatic action of the atmosphere in ...
... lower limb , the least refrangible end of the spectrum would be disclosed . By projecting a large image of the sun into a darkened room I was enabled to get the whole of the spectrum produced by the prismatic action of the atmosphere in ...
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... lower portions of t :: Silurian rocks of the Southern Uplands , the Llande strata , had experienced great difficulty in recognisin , horizons , in this series , such as would enable him : 3 divide these rocks into distinct portions . It ...
... lower portions of t :: Silurian rocks of the Southern Uplands , the Llande strata , had experienced great difficulty in recognisin , horizons , in this series , such as would enable him : 3 divide these rocks into distinct portions . It ...
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... Lower or Moffat Shale group . " This group is composed of " flaggy greywacke and grey shales , " which are ... lower part of the Dalveen group is seen overlying the Queensberry rocks south of Corse- well Lighthouse . Here its lower ...
... Lower or Moffat Shale group . " This group is composed of " flaggy greywacke and grey shales , " which are ... lower part of the Dalveen group is seen overlying the Queensberry rocks south of Corse- well Lighthouse . Here its lower ...
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... lower members of man's order . When , however , amongst Batrachia , we go outside that order to which the frog belongs , we find in his class no creatures whatever which present anything like such an approximation to any members of the ...
... lower members of man's order . When , however , amongst Batrachia , we go outside that order to which the frog belongs , we find in his class no creatures whatever which present anything like such an approximation to any members of the ...
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... lower petal imme- diately before the entrance of the flower ( y , Fig . 21 , 22 ) is in both dark yellow , and the lower petal is also marked by black streaks converging towards the same entrance . There is only this difference between ...
... lower petal imme- diately before the entrance of the flower ( y , Fig . 21 , 22 ) is in both dark yellow , and the lower petal is also marked by black streaks converging towards the same entrance . There is only this difference between ...
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Página 160 - An Introduction to Physical Measurements, with Appendices on Absolute Electrical Measurement. &c. By Dr. F. Kohlrausch. Translated from the Second German Edition by TH Waller, BA, B.Sc., and HR Procter, FCS (London : J. and A. Churchill, New Burlington Street, 1873.) MESSRS. TH WALLER and HR Procter have furnished us with a translation of the second edition of Dr. KoYrausch's "Physical Measurements," to which they have auded several useful Appendices and Tables.