The Quarterly Review, Volume 69William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1841 |
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... plants . Plants not only afford the means of nutrition for the growth and continuance of animal organi- zation , but they likewise furnish that which is essential to the support of the important vital process of respiration ; for ...
... plants . Plants not only afford the means of nutrition for the growth and continuance of animal organi- zation , but they likewise furnish that which is essential to the support of the important vital process of respiration ; for ...
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... plants in the form of carbonates , existed originally in the plants in the form of salts , that is , combined with vegetable acids which have been destroyed by the combustion . As certain of these vegetable acids are peculiar to certain ...
... plants in the form of carbonates , existed originally in the plants in the form of salts , that is , combined with vegetable acids which have been destroyed by the combustion . As certain of these vegetable acids are peculiar to certain ...
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... plants we gather the following highly important conclusions . First , that since the carbon and nitrogen of plants are derived from the atmosphere , the causes of fertility must be sought for in the mineral or inorganic elements of the ...
... plants we gather the following highly important conclusions . First , that since the carbon and nitrogen of plants are derived from the atmosphere , the causes of fertility must be sought for in the mineral or inorganic elements of the ...
Contents
Collection des Mémoires relatifs à lHistoire de France | 3 |
Objections to and Remarks upon Mr Sergeant Tal | 7 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America Chiapas | 52 |
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