Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volume 2John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829 - Natural history |
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... nearly similar to what he afterwards discovered in the pollen of plants ; and he considers these internal particles to be in both cases the real fecundising agents . The succeeding twenty- four pages contain his discovery of the action ...
... nearly similar to what he afterwards discovered in the pollen of plants ; and he considers these internal particles to be in both cases the real fecundising agents . The succeeding twenty- four pages contain his discovery of the action ...
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... nearly an hour in many of the grains ; others ejected the whole of their particles in less than a minute . The pollen of a hollyhock , which had been between the plates of mica in the slider of a microscope at least fifty years ...
... nearly an hour in many of the grains ; others ejected the whole of their particles in less than a minute . The pollen of a hollyhock , which had been between the plates of mica in the slider of a microscope at least fifty years ...
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... nearly globular form . Some of the grains which lay beyond the edge of the water being unchanged , gave me the opportunity of comparing them in these two forms . Frequently a transparent globule of con- siderable size , and sometimes ...
... nearly globular form . Some of the grains which lay beyond the edge of the water being unchanged , gave me the opportunity of comparing them in these two forms . Frequently a transparent globule of con- siderable size , and sometimes ...
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... nearly they resemble ourselves . There was a restless , tormenting , and agile creature on board a vessel in which I sailed up an African river , who was incessantly teasing and hovering about me . If I called another , he was sure to ...
... nearly they resemble ourselves . There was a restless , tormenting , and agile creature on board a vessel in which I sailed up an African river , who was incessantly teasing and hovering about me . If I called another , he was sure to ...
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... nearly with those of the house swallows . If the exact order in which our British species arrive be required to be stated , I should arrange it thus , sand marten , house swallow , house marten , swift . Some- TABLE showing the earliest ...
... nearly with those of the house swallows . If the exact order in which our British species arrive be required to be stated , I should arrange it thus , sand marten , house swallow , house marten , swift . Some- TABLE showing the earliest ...
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