The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Band 7Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1905 |
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... species are known in South. F lameng , François , frän - swä flä - män , French painter : b . Paris 1859. He began ... species of true flamingoes , widely spread over the warmer regions of both hemispheres . Our North American species ...
... species are known in South. F lameng , François , frän - swä flä - män , French painter : b . Paris 1859. He began ... species of true flamingoes , widely spread over the warmer regions of both hemispheres . Our North American species ...
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... species , classified in some 55 genera , being known to ichthyologists . All are oval or ellip- tical in outline , very thin and flexible , and habitually rest , half covered , or move sidewise along sandy sea - bottoms , some species ...
... species , classified in some 55 genera , being known to ichthyologists . All are oval or ellip- tical in outline , very thin and flexible , and habitually rest , half covered , or move sidewise along sandy sea - bottoms , some species ...
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... species is brown on both sides alike ; but when it turns on one side and lies flat , the under side becomes nearly white while the upper assumes the color of the bottom upon which the fish habitually rests . This is an excellent example ...
... species is brown on both sides alike ; but when it turns on one side and lies flat , the under side becomes nearly white while the upper assumes the color of the bottom upon which the fish habitually rests . This is an excellent example ...
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... species live on the root system of various weeds , the adults doing the principal damage to useful plants . Some species are also leaf - miners , while a few feed on the upper sur- face of leaves like the young of common leaf- beetles ...
... species live on the root system of various weeds , the adults doing the principal damage to useful plants . Some species are also leaf - miners , while a few feed on the upper sur- face of leaves like the young of common leaf- beetles ...
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... species , most of which are incalculably numerous in individ- uals ; so that " swarms " of flies is a proverbial expression . Entomologists believe that 8 or 10 times 40,000 species really exist . This vast abun- dance is due to the ...
... species , most of which are incalculably numerous in individ- uals ; so that " swarms " of flies is a proverbial expression . Entomologists believe that 8 or 10 times 40,000 species really exist . This vast abun- dance is due to the ...
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Seite 16 - On partially liquefying carbonic acid by pressure alone, and gradually raising at the same time the temperature to 88° Fahr., the surface of demarcation between the liquid and gas became fainter, lost its curvature, and at last disappeared. The space was then occupied by a homogeneous fluid, which exhibited, when the pressure was suddenly diminished or the temperature slightly lowered, a peculiar appearance of moving or flickering striae throughout its entire mass.
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Seite 9 - On a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; On Decision of Character ; On the Application of the Epithet Romantic ; On some of the Causes by which Evangelical Religion has been rendered less acceptable to Persons of cultivated Taste.