The Lens, Volume 2State Microscopical Society of Illinois, 1873 - Microscopes A quarterly journal of microscopy and the allied natural sciences, with the transactions of the State Microscopical Society of Illinois. |
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Page 241 - The heavens declare the glory of God, day unto day uttereth speech, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard, their line is gone through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
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Page 139 - Whether the discoloration is in the cell wall, or in the cement or matrix by which the adjacent cells are held together, is a more difficult question, and one into which I do not propose to enter at the present time. It is enough for the purposes of this paper that the peripheries of the cells or the substance just external to them, exhibits a much more speedy and intense reaction with the nitrate than the cell contents do, and must therefore differ more or less from these in composition. Having...
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Page 243 - This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant.
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Page 243 - As I contemplated it I could not help thinking of Andromeda as described by the poets ; and the more I meditated upon their descriptions, the more applicable they seemed to the little plant before me, so that if these writers had had it in view, they could scarcely have contrived a more apposite fable.
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