The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... fact that he was nearly grown up and not at all ready for college . One of his fellow pupils was Mr. Charles Edmund Lister , brother of the present owner of Shibden Hall , Halifax . With Mr. Lister he formed a friendship destined to be ...
... fact that he was nearly grown up and not at all ready for college . One of his fellow pupils was Mr. Charles Edmund Lister , brother of the present owner of Shibden Hall , Halifax . With Mr. Lister he formed a friendship destined to be ...
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... fact that his first book and his last should have been on theological subjects . Both were written when he was struggling with great bodily weakness , and in these months of early man- hood he showed the same almost pathetic desire to ...
... fact that his first book and his last should have been on theological subjects . Both were written when he was struggling with great bodily weakness , and in these months of early man- hood he showed the same almost pathetic desire to ...
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... facts recorded have been fully confirmed by later observers . This work was done at Cambridge . Mr. Romanes had worked for two years , or rather two summers , very constantly and very strenuously on the Medusæ . He set himself to try to ...
... facts recorded have been fully confirmed by later observers . This work was done at Cambridge . Mr. Romanes had worked for two years , or rather two summers , very constantly and very strenuously on the Medusæ . He set himself to try to ...
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... facts threw light , as Professor Sanderson has said , on ele- mentary questions of physiology relating to excita- bility and conduction , and it was a characteristic of Mr. Romanes that in all his work , of whatever kind , he was always ...
... facts threw light , as Professor Sanderson has said , on ele- mentary questions of physiology relating to excita- bility and conduction , and it was a characteristic of Mr. Romanes that in all his work , of whatever kind , he was always ...
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... fact would be all the better for ' Pangenesis . ' You have doubtless observed the very remarkable case given in the ' Gardener's Chronicle ' for January 2 -I mean the vine in which the scion appears to have notably affected the stock ...
... fact would be all the better for ' Pangenesis . ' You have doubtless observed the very remarkable case given in the ' Gardener's Chronicle ' for January 2 -I mean the vine in which the scion appears to have notably affected the stock ...
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