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Les chats: Histoire Moeurs Observations AnecdotesLes chats: Histoire; Moeurs; Observations; Anecdotes.Il peut paratre singulier que de longues tudes soient consacres un simple individu, au chat, qui, quoique rsumant une partie des facults des flins, ne saurait cependant donner une ide complte des tres plus considrables de la mme race;...
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Ueber die Arsenikvergiftung ihre Hülfe und gerichtliche AusmittelungUeber die Arsenikvergiftung ihre Hülfe und gerichtliche AusmittelungEine Menge Ursachen, ich mag sie nicht herzhlen, haben seit einigen Jahrhunderten die Wrde jener gottnachahmenden Wissenschaft, der praktischen Heilkunde zur elenden Brodklauberei, zur Symptomenbertnchung, zum erniedrigenden Rezepthandel, Gott erbarms, herunter getrieben, zum Handwerke, das die Hippokrate...
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First ProfessorsThe Royal Institution: Its Founder and First ProfessorsI begin the history of the Royal Institution, and its professors to the time of Faraday, with the life of its founder, Count Rumford, because his career and character determined its original form. I have written short...
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Animal Life of the British IslesAnimal Life of the British Isles - A Pocket Guide to the Mammals, Reptiles and Batrachians of Wayside and WoodlandIt is unnecessary to say much by way of Preface to the present volume, the series of popular handbooks of which it forms part being...
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Evolution: Its nature, its evidence, and its relation to religious thoughtEvolution: Its nature, its evidence, and its relation to religious thoughtThe subject of the following work may be expressed in three questions: What is evolution? Is it true? What then? Surely, there are no questions of the day more burning than these. Much has...
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Egyptian BirdsEgyptian Birds - For the most part seen in the Nile Valley The Griffon Vulture, The Egyptian Vulture, The Kestrel, The Parasitic Kite or Egyptian Kite, White Owl, Screech Owl, The Little Owl, Egyptian Eagle Owl, The Hoopoe, The Kingfisher, Black and White Kingfisher,...
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Experiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani and Commonly Called Animal ElectricityExperiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani and Commonly Called Animal ElectricityThe subject of the following experiments, has excited such general curiosity, that every new fact respecting it, may afford some gratification; and although the few which I have...
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William Oughtred: A Great 17th-Century Teacher of MathematicsWilliam Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of MathematicsIn the year 1660 the Royal Society was founded by royal favor in London, although in reality its inception took place in 1645 when the Philosophical Society (or, as Boyle called it, the Invisible College) came into...
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The Biotic Associations of CockroachesThe Biotic Associations of CockroachesRecently we brought together much of the literature linking cockroaches with the transmission of certain organisms that cause disease in man and other vertebrates. In that paper (1957a) we concluded that cockroaches, being potential vectors of pathogenic agents, should not...
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Aus den Tiefen des WeltmeeresAus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres - Schilderungen von der deutschen Tiefsee-ExpeditionDie Tiefen des Weltmeeres haben von jeher die Gedanken der Menschen mchtig erregt. Bald dachte man sie sich unergrndlich und vllig ohne Leben, bald hielt man sie fr das Abbild des mit steilen Gebirgen...
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The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2)The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2) - A complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the stateLove of the birds is a natural passion and one which requires neither analysis nor defense. The birds live, we...
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Michael Faraday, Man of ScienceMichael Faraday, Man of Science"Tyndall, I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last." In these words, with which he replied to Professor Tyndall's urgent appeal to him to accept the Presidency of the Royal Society, we have a key-note to the character of...
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Synthesis of 2-methyl-4-selenoquinazolone, 2-phenylbenzoselenazole, and its derivativesSynthesis of 2-methyl-4-selenoquinazolone, 2-phenylbenzoselenazole, and its derivatives - Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Pure Science of Columbia UniversityThe general conception of selenium is that it is a comparatively rare element....
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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899 - Vol. LV, May to October, 1899The analogies between the life of an individual and that other organism which we call civilized society are as interesting as for any other reason because of their inexhaustible and ever-fresh variety....
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 467, December 13, 1884Scientific American Supplement, No. 467, December 13, 1884The Berlin Academy of Industry and the Academy of Building were united in 1876 to form the Technical High School. It was found that the buildings were not sufficiently large for the great number of scholars, and...
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Scientific American, September 29, 1883 Supplement. No. 404Scientific American, September 29, 1883 Supplement. No. 404Compound engines are tending to come more and more into use, inasmuch as they present many advantages over other kinds, especially as regards the saving they effect in fuel, and their great regularity, due to the adjusting...
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William HarveyWilliam HarveyIt is not possible, nor have I attempted in this account of Harvey, to add much that is new. My endeavour has been to give a picture of the man and to explain in his own words, for they are always simple, racy,...
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"Sterminator Vesevo" (Vesuvius the great exterminator)"Sterminator Vesevo" (Vesuvius the great exterminator) - Diary of the Eruption of April 1906In translating this book by Matilde Serao, I have felt as if none of its beautiful local colour, of its warmly felt and vivid description should be altered by an attempt...
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The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological PhilosophyThe Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological PhilosophyThe publication of the present work on The Wonders of Life has been occasioned by the success of The Riddle of the Universe, which I wrote five years ago. Within a few months of the...
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A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)This work treats of the fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of the study of Ichthyology. In general all traits of the fish are discussed, those which the...
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