Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Volume 30

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Linnean Society of New South Wales., 1906 - Biology
 

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Page 19 - A museum is an institution for the preservation of those objects which best illustrate the phenomena of nature and the works of man, and the utilization of these for the increase of knowledge and for the culture and enlightenment of the people.
Page 19 - The Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the United States National Museum.
Page 564 - Review of Mining Operations in the State of South Australia during the Half-year ended December 31st, 1904 (1905).
Page 551 - Agglutinating Action. — Normal human serum does not exert any characteristic agglutinating action upon the staphylococcus. Such agglutination as is obtained is not very sensibly increased under the influence of staphylococcus inoculations.
Page 202 - ... very common. From Wellington to Dubbo is about 30 miles, and as most of the country has been cleared near the railway line, the list of plants noticed is not an extensive one, but is sufficient to show that, with the exception of an occasional plant, the cold country flora has been left behind. 49 the valley of the Bell River, near its junction with the Macquarie, he writes: — "Imagination cannot fancy anything more beautifully picturesque than the scene which burst upon us.
Page 13 - Plaintiff may have such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require].
Page 392 - ... feet. The smaller islands are often wholly volcanic. There are three principal volcanoes in the group, which are usually active, situated on the islands of Tanna, Lopevi, and Ambrym, and these have caused some very serious eruptions.
Page 219 - lends any countenance to this view. On the other hand, Captain PP King seems to be the only author who has had anything definite to say about the Journal, and this apparently from personal knowledge. In his remarks upon Sting-ray Bay as the earlier name of Botany Bay, Captain King says — " it is so called in the charts of the Endeavour's voyage, in the Hydrographical Office at the Admiralty, as well as in Sir Joseph Banks's copy of the Endeavour's journal, and in Dr.
Page 34 - Although the blacks' practice of medicine is dominated by empiricism, it is much to be regretted that we do not know more about the plants recognised by them to be of therapeutic value.
Page 156 - That there is a close analogy or identity between the production of bacteriolytic bodies and the digestion of food. (2) That bacteria do traverse the intestinal wall, and that negative experimental results regarding the same are untrustworthy. (3) That natural immunity, especially towards the bacteria that normally inhabit the intestinal tract, is occasioned and maintained by the comparatively few bacteria which, in crossing the intestinal wall and possibly gaining access to the body fluids and organs,...

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