The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... continuous piece save a small portion to unite it with the bell , and if the distal end be now irritated , a main of contraction runs along the entire severed part till it arrives at the small united part , when the whole bell contracts ...
... continuous piece save a small portion to unite it with the bell , and if the distal end be now irritated , a main of contraction runs along the entire severed part till it arrives at the small united part , when the whole bell contracts ...
Page 84
... continuous , and universal a development of human faculty could have arisen and persisted unless it were in correspondence with reality ? ' In fact we may almost say that the obstacles to belief on the side of science were gone when ...
... continuous , and universal a development of human faculty could have arisen and persisted unless it were in correspondence with reality ? ' In fact we may almost say that the obstacles to belief on the side of science were gone when ...
Page 109
... continuous uninterrupted series of sparks , however bright , would produce no effect at all , owing to the plant tissues being too slug- gish to admit of being affected by a succession of stimuli each of such brief duration . But if any ...
... continuous uninterrupted series of sparks , however bright , would produce no effect at all , owing to the plant tissues being too slug- gish to admit of being affected by a succession of stimuli each of such brief duration . But if any ...
Page 119
... continuous light of same brilliancy during 60 m . So that Van Tieghem , in the first part of his book , which has just appeared , remarks , the light during 40 m . out of the 60 m . produced no effect . I observed an analogous case ...
... continuous light of same brilliancy during 60 m . So that Van Tieghem , in the first part of his book , which has just appeared , remarks , the light during 40 m . out of the 60 m . produced no effect . I observed an analogous case ...
Page 209
... continuous areas are more or less mutually sterile ( see p . 392 ) . If you have hitherto failed to apply these converse tests to my theory , I cannot conceive by what other principle you have sought to test it . Pray read the passages ...
... continuous areas are more or less mutually sterile ( see p . 392 ) . If you have hitherto failed to apply these converse tests to my theory , I cannot conceive by what other principle you have sought to test it . Pray read the passages ...
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