Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln., 1870 |
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Page 271 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 213 - ... to the very apex of the cone. For this purpose a glass funnel is chosen possessing an angle of 60°, or as nearly 60° as possible, the walls of which must be completely free from inequalities of every description ; and into it is placed a second funnel made of exceedingly thin platinum-foil, and the sides of which possess exactly the same inclination as those of the glass funnel. An ordinary paper filter is then introduced into this compound funnel in the usual manner ; when carefully moistened...
Page 300 - Every fully developed plant, whether of wheat, oats, or barley, presents an ear superior in productive power to any of the rest on that plant. 2. Every such plant contains one grain which, upon trial, proves more productive than any other.