 | William Paul Crillon Barton, Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1836 - 414 pages
...Dr. Darwin. J Phylologia, &c. Sect. iv. § By Gustavus Bonde, Professor Ludwig, Sir John Hill, &c. certain, that the leaves are incapable of essentially...few simple, but conclusive experiments. Mr. Papin found, that a plant which he had put into an exhausted receiver, lived a long time, provided only the... | |
 | William Paul Crillon Barton, Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1836 - 416 pages
...Dr. Darwin. | Phylologia, &c. Sect. iv. § By Gustavus Bonde, Professor Ludwig, Sir John Hill, &c. certain, that the leaves are incapable of essentially...few simple, but conclusive experiments. Mr. Papin found, that a plant which he had put into an exhausted receiver, lived a long time, provided only the... | |
 | Church history - 1838 - 844 pages
...the temporalities; but, in other respects, held no rank superior to any other member. Dr Jamieson, to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the Coldees, thinks be can discover, in their ecclesiastical government, a great resemblance to the Presbyterian.... | |
 | John Knox - Great Britain - 1851 - 216 pages
...fertilizing the empire of mind, as it flows over the old world and the new. She can boast of a Ferguson, to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the heavenly bodies ; of a Watt, who first rendered the steam engine of practical utility ; of a Reid,... | |
 | Medicine - 1868 - 312 pages
...1868. Mr. Spender is Surgeon to the Bath Mineral Water Hospital, and son of the celebrated gentleman to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the natural treatment of ulcers. In this volume the author treats ofthehutory, diagnosis, prognosis, and... | |
 | Henry Reed Stiles - 1868 - 144 pages
...genealogy, and to Doctor JB POUTER, of Coventry, Conn., and to Mrs. ALMIRA (Dow) WILSON, of South Coventry, to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the Dow family. HRS BROOKLYN, NY, September, 1868. So ^tvanahatt »«*1 Jitth famf.s of theit Dedicated... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1919 - 688 pages
...in those languages. He was one of the survivors of a group of naturalist explorers and investigators to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the fauna and flora of tropical America. He belonged to an illustrious company which, beginning with Humboldt... | |
 | William Henry Flower, Richard Lydekker - Extinct animals - 1891 - 792 pages
...other forms less distinctly carnivorous, to the whole of which, including the modern Insectivora, Cope (to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the American extinct species) gives the name of BUNOTHERIA, those more specially related to the existing... | |
 | Ludwig Edinger - Brain - 1899 - 472 pages
...involved in these curious structures is, in fishes, supplied by the Vagus and Trigeminus. Fritsch, to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the fish-brain, found that the nuclei of these nerves in Loph ius — and in this fish alone — were supplemented... | |
 | Hubert William Brown - Bibliography - 1901 - 342 pages
...Indians. While many monks were iconoclasts of the type of Zumarraga, others were studious, scholarly men, to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge of the beliefs and customs of the Indians. In their explanations of the facts which they relate, they reflect... | |
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... be rather unphilosophical to contend, that they are the digestive organs of the plant, unless we were able to prove (what has not yet been proved,) that the nutritious matters which are conveyed from the root to the leaves, are again returned by the... 
