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Pagina xii
... conditions : 1st , Fry or Sill ; 2d , Maties , or Fat Herring ; 3d , Full Herring ; 4th , Shotten , or Spent Herring . It is extremely diffi- cult to obtain satisfactory evidence as to the length of time which the herring requires to ...
... conditions : 1st , Fry or Sill ; 2d , Maties , or Fat Herring ; 3d , Full Herring ; 4th , Shotten , or Spent Herring . It is extremely diffi- cult to obtain satisfactory evidence as to the length of time which the herring requires to ...
Pagina xiii
... condition in one year , and that the eggs are hatched in , at most , two to three weeks after deposition , and that in six or seven weeks more the young have attained three inches in length . The maties , or fat herring , feed , develop ...
... condition in one year , and that the eggs are hatched in , at most , two to three weeks after deposition , and that in six or seven weeks more the young have attained three inches in length . The maties , or fat herring , feed , develop ...
Pagina 17
... conditions into the river at a point far below the city limits and not far distant from the sea . " These main drains are called the High , Middle , and Low Level sew- ers , according to the height of the localities which each ...
... conditions into the river at a point far below the city limits and not far distant from the sea . " These main drains are called the High , Middle , and Low Level sew- ers , according to the height of the localities which each ...
Pagina 22
... condition , 74 cents per pound . He stated that “ the inventor , who was for a number of years director of a large iron manufacturing establishment in Germany , had made it his particular study to examine theoretically and practically ...
... condition , 74 cents per pound . He stated that “ the inventor , who was for a number of years director of a large iron manufacturing establishment in Germany , had made it his particular study to examine theoretically and practically ...
Pagina 27
... inner surface of the barrel being in a brilliantly polished condition from the boring . When the barrel is placed at the proper angle , which practice enables the person performing this duty MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 27 27.
... inner surface of the barrel being in a brilliantly polished condition from the boring . When the barrel is placed at the proper angle , which practice enables the person performing this duty MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 27 27.
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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.