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Pàgina 264 - Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to a definite, coherent, heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations...
Pàgina 74 - MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS, on Subjects included in the First and Second Divisions of the Schedule of Subjects for the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Examination. Devised and arranged by JOSEPH WOLSTENHOLME, late Fellow of Christ's College, sometime Fellow of St. John's College, and Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Indian Engineering College. New Edition greatly enlarged.
Pàgina 216 - On Artificial Manures : Their Chemical Selection and Scientific Application to Agriculture. A series of Lectures given at the Experimental Farm at Vincennes, during 1867 and 1874-75.
Pàgina 25 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter ; therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Pàgina 25 - And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Pàgina 45 - FELKIN, HM— Technical Education in a Saxon Town. Published for the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education.
Pàgina 142 - ... what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited and preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better suited to circumstance individuals who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting only the situations to which they have superior adaptation and greater power of occupancy than any other kind ; the weaker, less circumstancesuited being prematurely destroyed.
Pàgina 159 - HUXLEY has been elected a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the section of Anatomy and Zoology, in succession to the late Prof, von Baer ; and M.
Pàgina 141 - The final cause, of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.
Pàgina 240 - SOLID GEOMETRY AND CONIC SECTIONS. With Appendices on Transversals and Harmonic Division. For the Use of Schools. By JM WILSON, MA New Edition.