The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... experimental work and less to what may be called philosophical natural history . Some will regard his removal as a misfortune , and others as a happy accident , but the might - have - beens of life are never very profitable subjects for ...
... experimental work and less to what may be called philosophical natural history . Some will regard his removal as a misfortune , and others as a happy accident , but the might - have - beens of life are never very profitable subjects for ...
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... margin of all these forms there is situated a localised system of centres of spontaneity , having for one of its functions the origination of impulses to which the contraction of the swimming bell is , under. 1875 17 EXPERIMENTS ON MEDUSÆ.
... margin of all these forms there is situated a localised system of centres of spontaneity , having for one of its functions the origination of impulses to which the contraction of the swimming bell is , under. 1875 17 EXPERIMENTS ON MEDUSÆ.
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... experiments led him to infer the existence of a very fine plexus of nerve fibres , in which the constituent threads cross and re - cross one another without actually coalescing . This conclusion , which he arrived at from purely ...
... experiments led him to infer the existence of a very fine plexus of nerve fibres , in which the constituent threads cross and re - cross one another without actually coalescing . This conclusion , which he arrived at from purely ...
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... experiments with the galvanometer on Sarsia , placing one electrode on the margin and another on the muscular sheet , but without any decided results . I also tried placing a Sarsia in one beaker and simple sea water in another ...
... experiments with the galvanometer on Sarsia , placing one electrode on the margin and another on the muscular sheet , but without any decided results . I also tried placing a Sarsia in one beaker and simple sea water in another ...
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... experiments in graft - hybridisation were to prove that formative material ( or gemmules ) was actually present in the general tissues of plants and was capable of uniting with the gemmules of another plant and thus of reproducing the ...
... experiments in graft - hybridisation were to prove that formative material ( or gemmules ) was actually present in the general tissues of plants and was capable of uniting with the gemmules of another plant and thus of reproducing the ...
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