The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina xii
... plants , as it contains full sets of nearly all the collections made by the numerous exploring expeditions of the United States Government , from that of Maj . Long , in 1819 , to the present time , and the original specimens from which ...
... plants , as it contains full sets of nearly all the collections made by the numerous exploring expeditions of the United States Government , from that of Maj . Long , in 1819 , to the present time , and the original specimens from which ...
Pagina 68
... plants . In or- der to meet this difficulty , Dr. Dresser suggested an " Improved Na- ture - Printing " process , which he patented , in conjunction with Dr. Lyon Playfair , in which impressions are taken from the living plant , and ...
... plants . In or- der to meet this difficulty , Dr. Dresser suggested an " Improved Na- ture - Printing " process , which he patented , in conjunction with Dr. Lyon Playfair , in which impressions are taken from the living plant , and ...
Pagina 69
... plant ; thus , if the leaves of the black , red , American , and golden currant be printed together with that of the gooseberry , all of which belong to one bo- tanical genus or group , the variation or modification of the form will be ...
... plant ; thus , if the leaves of the black , red , American , and golden currant be printed together with that of the gooseberry , all of which belong to one bo- tanical genus or group , the variation or modification of the form will be ...
Pagina 105
... plant as well as in the animal fibre , nitrogen appears as the most necessary constituent . Why should not nitrogen have something to do with the fibrous condition of metals ? The celebrated chemist , Fremy , in Paris , has lately ...
... plant as well as in the animal fibre , nitrogen appears as the most necessary constituent . Why should not nitrogen have something to do with the fibrous condition of metals ? The celebrated chemist , Fremy , in Paris , has lately ...
Pagina 106
... plant was sub- mitted solely to the influence of the electric light . It is well known that a plant grown in darkness is devoid of green color , and it is generally considered that the sun's light is essential to its 106 ANNUAL OF ...
... plant was sub- mitted solely to the influence of the electric light . It is well known that a plant grown in darkness is devoid of green color , and it is generally considered that the sun's light is essential to its 106 ANNUAL OF ...
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Pagina ix - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 150 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space of action, involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping forever.
Pagina xii - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.