The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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Page 23
... reason , but our explanation would be scien- tifically valueless if we neglected to observe that the Canadian colony was founded by British individuals . The leaf from Nature ' arrived last night . I had previously intended to try ...
... reason , but our explanation would be scien- tifically valueless if we neglected to observe that the Canadian colony was founded by British individuals . The leaf from Nature ' arrived last night . I had previously intended to try ...
Page 49
... reasons I should have postponed Pan- genesis and worked the Medusæ right through in one year . There is a glitter about immediate results which is very alluring . From C. Darwin to G. J. Romanes . I will send the books off by railway on ...
... reasons I should have postponed Pan- genesis and worked the Medusæ right through in one year . There is a glitter about immediate results which is very alluring . From C. Darwin to G. J. Romanes . I will send the books off by railway on ...
Page 55
... reason I should like to know is , that last year it occurred to me that the stinging property probably has reference to some widely distributed class of animals , and being told- rightly or wrongly , I do not know - that ruminants do ...
... reason I should like to know is , that last year it occurred to me that the stinging property probably has reference to some widely distributed class of animals , and being told- rightly or wrongly , I do not know - that ruminants do ...
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... mesh . But the only reason why I resort to the supposition of nerve - tracts at all is because of the sudden blocking of contractile waves by section , and the fact that stimulus ( tentacular. 1877 69 MR . F. DARWIN ON DROSERA 59.
... mesh . But the only reason why I resort to the supposition of nerve - tracts at all is because of the sudden blocking of contractile waves by section , and the fact that stimulus ( tentacular. 1877 69 MR . F. DARWIN ON DROSERA 59.
Page 64
... reason with people who , knowing such facts , expend all their energies in straining at a wonderfully small gnat , while swallow- ing , as an article of daily food , such an enormously large camel . From C. Darwin , Esq . Down : August ...
... reason with people who , knowing such facts , expend all their energies in straining at a wonderfully small gnat , while swallow- ing , as an article of daily food , such an enormously large camel . From C. Darwin , Esq . Down : August ...
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