The Popular Science Monthly, Tom 46D. Appleton, 1895 |
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... plants have the proud office of capturing and taming for us the free nitrogen of the air , which , if we are to live at all , we must consume and assimilate , and yet which , without the help of our microscopic ally , we could not draw ...
... plants have the proud office of capturing and taming for us the free nitrogen of the air , which , if we are to live at all , we must consume and assimilate , and yet which , without the help of our microscopic ally , we could not draw ...
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... plants with which man is familiar , we shall admit that for a chain of change so vast , of which the smallest link is longer than our recorded history , the biologists are making no extrava- gant claim when they demand at least many ...
... plants with which man is familiar , we shall admit that for a chain of change so vast , of which the smallest link is longer than our recorded history , the biologists are making no extrava- gant claim when they demand at least many ...
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... plants like heads of gnomes and several strange shrubs threw down aërial roots as though in a vain effort to reach the thin soil at the bottom . On gaining the landing at the top we were received by the workmen drawn up in two lines ...
... plants like heads of gnomes and several strange shrubs threw down aërial roots as though in a vain effort to reach the thin soil at the bottom . On gaining the landing at the top we were received by the workmen drawn up in two lines ...
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... plants . Several sheep and goats , two dogs , some hens , two peacocks , and a white cat comprised the domestic animals of this Crusoe- like home . From time to time the sheep and goats had become wild and had taken to the almost ...
... plants . Several sheep and goats , two dogs , some hens , two peacocks , and a white cat comprised the domestic animals of this Crusoe- like home . From time to time the sheep and goats had become wild and had taken to the almost ...
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... plants , a species of Tillandsia , clung to the projections of the rocks and formed almost the sole vegetation at the extreme summit . The apex did not consist of a solid mass of rock , but was a pile of huge bowlders without the ...
... plants , a species of Tillandsia , clung to the projections of the rocks and formed almost the sole vegetation at the extreme summit . The apex did not consist of a solid mass of rock , but was a pile of huge bowlders without the ...
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