The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... seem very promising ; and as their buds admit of being planted in the ground , it would be much more easy to try the bisecting plan in their case than in others , where one half - bud , besides requiring to be fitted to the other half ...
... seem very promising ; and as their buds admit of being planted in the ground , it would be much more easy to try the bisecting plan in their case than in others , where one half - bud , besides requiring to be fitted to the other half ...
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... seems to show that there are nervous connections between the eye - specks and the polypite . By introducing cuts between former and latter , these connections may be destroyed - the tolerance of the tissue to such sections being ...
... seems to show that there are nervous connections between the eye - specks and the polypite . By introducing cuts between former and latter , these connections may be destroyed - the tolerance of the tissue to such sections being ...
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... seems to show that the nervous plexus , if present , has its constituent fibres aggregated into trunks in the course of the nutriment tubes . Thus far , then , I should be inclined to adopt the nerve - plexus theory . But lastly , we ...
... seems to show that the nervous plexus , if present , has its constituent fibres aggregated into trunks in the course of the nutriment tubes . Thus far , then , I should be inclined to adopt the nerve - plexus theory . But lastly , we ...
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... seems to me , is to preclude , on the one hand , the supposition that the muscular tissue of Medusæ is merely muscular ( for no muscle would respond to local stimulus throughout its substance when so severely. 1876 31 MEDUSE.
... seems to me , is to preclude , on the one hand , the supposition that the muscular tissue of Medusæ is merely muscular ( for no muscle would respond to local stimulus throughout its substance when so severely. 1876 31 MEDUSE.
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... seems to me that the histology can very well wait for future treatment - that its absence is not sufficient justification for withholding the results I have already observed . These results , after all , are the most important ; for ...
... seems to me that the histology can very well wait for future treatment - that its absence is not sufficient justification for withholding the results I have already observed . These results , after all , are the most important ; for ...
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