Nature, Volumen1Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1870 |
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... Physical Meteorology , 218 Humboldt's Memoir , 236 Husemann's Vegetable Essences , 403 Huxley ( Prof. ) on Goethe's Aphorisms on Nature , 9 ; on Tri- assic Dinosauria , 23 ; on Kant's View of Space , 314 ; on the Progress of ...
... Physical Meteorology , 218 Humboldt's Memoir , 236 Husemann's Vegetable Essences , 403 Huxley ( Prof. ) on Goethe's Aphorisms on Nature , 9 ; on Tri- assic Dinosauria , 23 ; on Kant's View of Space , 314 ; on the Progress of ...
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... physical geography , general appearance , and mineral and vegetable productions of the vast regions traversed . The work also abounds in exciting adventures , and , besides being full of information , is as fixing to the attention as a ...
... physical geography , general appearance , and mineral and vegetable productions of the vast regions traversed . The work also abounds in exciting adventures , and , besides being full of information , is as fixing to the attention as a ...
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... PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . By the same . Second Edition . 25 . ADVANCED TEXT - BOOK of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . By the same . With Engravings . 55 . " A thoroughly good text - book of Physical Geography . " — Saturday Review . HAND - BOOK of ...
... PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . By the same . Second Edition . 25 . ADVANCED TEXT - BOOK of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY . By the same . With Engravings . 55 . " A thoroughly good text - book of Physical Geography . " — Saturday Review . HAND - BOOK of ...
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... PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE . Huxley's celebrated Essay on this subject is lectured on daily , by WILLIAM BARTON , who has made the matter a life study . It is also illustrated daily at his tables , where the " physical basis " can be laid ...
... PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE . Huxley's celebrated Essay on this subject is lectured on daily , by WILLIAM BARTON , who has made the matter a life study . It is also illustrated daily at his tables , where the " physical basis " can be laid ...
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... Physical Science , on à priori grounds , to a fair place in the course of school work , have been abundantly vindicated , and are , I suppose , established . But the method and details of its teaching , the books and apparatus which it ...
... Physical Science , on à priori grounds , to a fair place in the course of school work , have been abundantly vindicated , and are , I suppose , established . But the method and details of its teaching , the books and apparatus which it ...
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