The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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Page 55
... cause than the nettles , would fall upon its nearest neighbour at the feast , when a guinea - pig fight would ensue . I have seldom seen a more amusing spectacle than twenty or thirty of these animals closely packed round a bunch of ...
... cause than the nettles , would fall upon its nearest neighbour at the feast , when a guinea - pig fight would ensue . I have seldom seen a more amusing spectacle than twenty or thirty of these animals closely packed round a bunch of ...
Page 60
... cause I am almost sure the movements of the Medusa were accidental , and my pointing out this source of error may be discouraging to a lady observer . I remember thinking you were too diffident about the bloom , but I suppose that is ...
... cause I am almost sure the movements of the Medusa were accidental , and my pointing out this source of error may be discouraging to a lady observer . I remember thinking you were too diffident about the bloom , but I suppose that is ...
Page 64
... causes all the surrounding tentacles to bend to this point ; and here there can hardly be differentiated lines of convey- ance . It seems to me that the tentacles probably bend to that point whence a molecular wave strikes them , which ...
... causes all the surrounding tentacles to bend to this point ; and here there can hardly be differentiated lines of convey- ance . It seems to me that the tentacles probably bend to that point whence a molecular wave strikes them , which ...
Page 83
... causes , forces , conditions of nature are as unexplained as 1 Cf. Life and Letters of Dean Church , ' p . 154 . 24 ' Buying up the Opportunity , ' a sermon by the Rev. C. Gore , preached before the University of Oxford , and published ...
... causes , forces , conditions of nature are as unexplained as 1 Cf. Life and Letters of Dean Church , ' p . 154 . 24 ' Buying up the Opportunity , ' a sermon by the Rev. C. Gore , preached before the University of Oxford , and published ...
Page 88
... causes motion ) would inevitably thus change its character under the above conditions . Again I maintain that matter , though it may in the future be eternal , was created by God with the most marvellous affinities , leading to complex ...
... causes motion ) would inevitably thus change its character under the above conditions . Again I maintain that matter , though it may in the future be eternal , was created by God with the most marvellous affinities , leading to complex ...
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