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... species of Idotea and Polybius Henslowii . On the Atlantic cable , which was raised to the surface at a point 112 miles west of Brest , were found numerous shells of a small boring mollusc , one of the Pholadida , apparently Xylophaga ...
... species of Idotea and Polybius Henslowii . On the Atlantic cable , which was raised to the surface at a point 112 miles west of Brest , were found numerous shells of a small boring mollusc , one of the Pholadida , apparently Xylophaga ...
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... species ) confined to Australia and America . The typical Tree - frogs ( Hyla ) abound in South America and are also found in Australia , but not in India or in | Africa south of the Sahara . On the other hand another genus of Tree ...
... species ) confined to Australia and America . The typical Tree - frogs ( Hyla ) abound in South America and are also found in Australia , but not in India or in | Africa south of the Sahara . On the other hand another genus of Tree ...
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... species more or less resemble our own Efts ( or Newts ) in shape , yet the Urodela are very far from consti- tuting such a homogeneous group as are the Anoura . It will be well now to review some of the more striking forms contained in ...
... species more or less resemble our own Efts ( or Newts ) in shape , yet the Urodela are very far from consti- tuting such a homogeneous group as are the Anoura . It will be well now to review some of the more striking forms contained in ...
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... species , Since then several other species have transformed them- selves , but without affording any clue as to the conditions which determine this change - a change remarkable in- deed , resulting as it does not merely in the loss of ...
... species , Since then several other species have transformed them- selves , but without affording any clue as to the conditions which determine this change - a change remarkable in- deed , resulting as it does not merely in the loss of ...
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... species found pas upon Obisium , and which he believed to be identica Hypopus , described by Dujardin . Specimens both met and alive were exhibited under the Society's microscopes- Some photographs of Navicula yra and Amphipleura polv ...
... species found pas upon Obisium , and which he believed to be identica Hypopus , described by Dujardin . Specimens both met and alive were exhibited under the Society's microscopes- Some photographs of Navicula yra and Amphipleura polv ...
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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.