The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Том 10James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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Стр. 254 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
Стр. 10 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Стр. 175 - STRANGE DWELLINGS: a Description of the Habitations of Animals, abridged from ' Homes without Hands '. With 60 Illustrations.
Стр. 10 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Стр. 377 - I suggest of the older theory—there must be another form of matter present during life ; a matter which exists in the condition of vapour or gas, which pervades the whole nervous organism, surrounds, as an enveloping atmosphere, each molecule of nervous structure, and is the medium of all motion communicated to or from the nervous centres.
Стр. 253 - They went, and found a hospitable race: Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast: The trees around them all their food produce; Lotus the name: divine nectareous juice!
Стр. 253 - And learn what habitants possess'd the place. They went, and found a hospitable race; Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and Nature gives the feast; The trees around them, all their...
Стр. 72 - Other Worlds than Ours ; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches.
Стр. 96 - Centralblatt," publishes a few facts in the form of a provisional communication, to show that it is probably produced at the liver. The plan of experimentation adopted (in common with M. Istomin) was as follows: The whole of the blood was abstracted from the carotid of a dog, and a portion, after being defibrinated, was transmitted by means of mercurial pressure through the liver. Coincidently three...
Стр. 330 - ... substance in alcohol,* in the same manner as a photographic plate is coated with collodion. After the plate has remained a day or two in a dry atmosphere it is placed over the magnet, or magnets, with its ends resting on slips of wood, so that the under surface of the plate just touches the magnet. Fine iron-filings, produced by