The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... TRIBES THAT ISSUE FROM IT . Lect . Page I. On Matter , and the Material World 25 II . On the Elementary and Constituent Principles of Things III . The Subject continued 34 42 IV . On the Properties of Matter , essential and peculiar 50 ...
... TRIBES THAT ISSUE FROM IT . Lect . Page I. On Matter , and the Material World 25 II . On the Elementary and Constituent Principles of Things III . The Subject continued 34 42 IV . On the Properties of Matter , essential and peculiar 50 ...
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... tribes , and which are found , under one species or other , over the whole world . The race of horses , of swine , or of sheep , furnishes us with abundant exam- ples of this remark : and that of dogs affords perhaps a still more ...
... tribes , and which are found , under one species or other , over the whole world . The race of horses , of swine , or of sheep , furnishes us with abundant exam- ples of this remark : and that of dogs affords perhaps a still more ...
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... tribes of aquatic creatures ; and consequently , to that of those lowest ranks of animal life , testaceous worms , corals , and other zoophytes , whose relics , as we have already observed , are alone to be traced in the second class of ...
... tribes of aquatic creatures ; and consequently , to that of those lowest ranks of animal life , testaceous worms , corals , and other zoophytes , whose relics , as we have already observed , are alone to be traced in the second class of ...
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... tribes that derive by far the greater portion of their increase from the mineral kingdom alone ; while even in man him- self , air , water , common salt , and lime , which last is almost always an ingre- dient of common salt , are ...
... tribes that derive by far the greater portion of their increase from the mineral kingdom alone ; while even in man him- self , air , water , common salt , and lime , which last is almost always an ingre- dient of common salt , are ...
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... tribes , if the stem branches be bent down to the earth , plunged into it , and continued in this situation for a ... tribe . The rhizophora Mangle , or mangrove - tree , grows naturally in this manner ; for its stem - branches , having ...
... tribes , if the stem branches be bent down to the earth , plunged into it , and continued in this situation for a ... tribe . The rhizophora Mangle , or mangrove - tree , grows naturally in this manner ; for its stem - branches , having ...
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