The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... appearance said to be nerves , but in no case had it been shown that they functioned as such . Thus it was to solve this question , whether or not a nervous system , known to be present in all animals higher in the zoological scale ...
... appearance said to be nerves , but in no case had it been shown that they functioned as such . Thus it was to solve this question , whether or not a nervous system , known to be present in all animals higher in the zoological scale ...
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... appeared at all likely in any way to throw light on some biological or psychological problem . Only a trained scientific worker can appreciate the amount of labour these Royal Society papers represented . In 1875 he gave a Friday ...
... appeared at all likely in any way to throw light on some biological or psychological problem . Only a trained scientific worker can appreciate the amount of labour these Royal Society papers represented . In 1875 he gave a Friday ...
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... appearance , I think , is due to the various systems of muscles contracting without co - ordination , but why it should take place in some cases and not in others , I am quite unable to determine . Irritability of bell to shocks ...
... appearance , I think , is due to the various systems of muscles contracting without co - ordination , but why it should take place in some cases and not in others , I am quite unable to determine . Irritability of bell to shocks ...
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... appearance here , I should not dare to say it was nervous . Gold cer- tainly stains it , but it also stains many other parts of the tissue , and until I can see cells here I cannot be sure about a visible nervous cord . The cord I do ...
... appearance here , I should not dare to say it was nervous . Gold cer- tainly stains it , but it also stains many other parts of the tissue , and until I can see cells here I cannot be sure about a visible nervous cord . The cord I do ...
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... appearance of the new edition of the Variation . ' I only wish I had begun Pangenesis a year earlier , when perhaps by this time the graft - hybrid question might have been settled . Perhaps , however , it is as well to have this ...
... appearance of the new edition of the Variation . ' I only wish I had begun Pangenesis a year earlier , when perhaps by this time the graft - hybrid question might have been settled . Perhaps , however , it is as well to have this ...
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