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Pagina xiii
... close to the ground that the fishermen have to practise a peculiar mode of fishing in order to take them , while every net and line used in the fishing is thickly covered with the adhesive spawn which they are busily engaged in shedding ...
... close to the ground that the fishermen have to practise a peculiar mode of fishing in order to take them , while every net and line used in the fishing is thickly covered with the adhesive spawn which they are busily engaged in shedding ...
Pagina 19
... close - ceiling the holds , or under- planking the hold - beams , and saving those spaces between them for the storage of light dry - goods above that deck ( which was generally lost ) , and placing loose planks ( indeed , as we were in ...
... close - ceiling the holds , or under- planking the hold - beams , and saving those spaces between them for the storage of light dry - goods above that deck ( which was generally lost ) , and placing loose planks ( indeed , as we were in ...
Pagina 39
... close of the experiment , to be driven out at the same temperature . In the cement safe , 6 pounds were fixed in the setting , and 133 pounds were held by capillary attraction . Of these 133 , 13 were driven out at 2120. There remained ...
... close of the experiment , to be driven out at the same temperature . In the cement safe , 6 pounds were fixed in the setting , and 133 pounds were held by capillary attraction . Of these 133 , 13 were driven out at 2120. There remained ...
Pagina 41
... close of the first experi- ment . The wooden boxes in Nos . 1 , 2 , and 3 , had been destroyed . The temperature in No. 2 had been above 600 ° , and in Nos . 1 and 3 , above 300 ° , but not to 600 ° , though probably not far below . The ...
... close of the first experi- ment . The wooden boxes in Nos . 1 , 2 , and 3 , had been destroyed . The temperature in No. 2 had been above 600 ° , and in Nos . 1 and 3 , above 300 ° , but not to 600 ° , though probably not far below . The ...
Pagina 42
... close imitation of orchestral instruments . We have then a total of 89 speaking stops , which may all be combined , and a grand total of 5474 pipes . The largest of these pipes measure thirty - two feet in length , and are sufficiently ...
... close imitation of orchestral instruments . We have then a total of 89 speaking stops , which may all be combined , and a grand total of 5474 pipes . The largest of these pipes measure thirty - two feet in length , and are sufficiently ...
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Pagina 170 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with which this point was investigated by Newton, and the care he took to ascertain that every kind of substance, ' metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,'...
Pagina 256 - As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body...
Pagina 306 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Pagina 288 - The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw, and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth. The aboriginal American represents the same child nearer birth. The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.
Pagina 77 - The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.