Elementary Biology, Plant, Animal, HumanMacmillan, 1912 - 593 páginas |
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... plant material . ( 2 ) Plants are the final source of all the food supply of animals and man , and if the composition and manu- facture of the nutrients are taught early in the course , a solid foundation is laid for all subsequent ...
... plant material . ( 2 ) Plants are the final source of all the food supply of animals and man , and if the composition and manu- facture of the nutrients are taught early in the course , a solid foundation is laid for all subsequent ...
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... plants . But it is utterly useless to attempt to teach biological functions without first presenting some of the elementary principles involved in physical and chemical phenomena . For this reason the first chapter in Plant Biology is ...
... plants . But it is utterly useless to attempt to teach biological functions without first presenting some of the elementary principles involved in physical and chemical phenomena . For this reason the first chapter in Plant Biology is ...
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... plants are propagated . This treatment presents only the briefest statement of underlying principles , since any extended dis- cussion of this topic belongs to a course in agriculture . In Chapters IX ( Plants in their Relation to ...
... plants are propagated . This treatment presents only the briefest statement of underlying principles , since any extended dis- cussion of this topic belongs to a course in agriculture . In Chapters IX ( Plants in their Relation to ...
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... Plants . III . THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF PLANTS IV . OSMOSIS AND DIGESTION · • vii 1 13 15222 2 2 88 * 2 26 32 39 • · 39 45 • 52 • V. ADAPTATIONS OF THE NUTRITIVE ORGANS OF PLANTS I. The Structure and Adaptations of Roots II . The ...
... Plants . III . THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF PLANTS IV . OSMOSIS AND DIGESTION · • vii 1 13 15222 2 2 88 * 2 26 32 39 • · 39 45 • 52 • V. ADAPTATIONS OF THE NUTRITIVE ORGANS OF PLANTS I. The Structure and Adaptations of Roots II . The ...
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James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt. CHAPTER IX . PLANTS IN THEIR RELATION TO HUMAN WELFARE I. Some of the Uses of Plants to Man . II . The Uses of Forests and Forest Conservation . III . Fungi and their Relation to Human Welfare ...
James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt. CHAPTER IX . PLANTS IN THEIR RELATION TO HUMAN WELFARE I. Some of the Uses of Plants to Man . II . The Uses of Forests and Forest Conservation . III . Fungi and their Relation to Human Welfare ...
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Página 169 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.
Página 167 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Página 36 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Página 167 - I won't count this time!" Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his...
Página 168 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 103 - AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. An Act for the Protection of Birds and their Nests and Eggs. Section i. No person shall, within the State of- , kill or catch or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a...
Página 169 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Página 167 - Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 59 - In my opinion this exhibition of moral courage has never been surpassed in the annals of the Army of the United States.
Página 80 - The use of intoxicants by employes while on duty is prohibited. Their habitual use, or the frequenting of places where they are sold, is sufficient cause for dismissal.