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... reflected , capsule 3- angled , 3 - celled , 3 - valved , valves septiferous in the middle ; seeds many , subglobose , arillate at the hilum . - Nuttall's Gen. U. grandiflora , leaves perfoliate , oblong , acute ; petals smooth within ...
... reflected , capsule 3- angled , 3 - celled , 3 - valved , valves septiferous in the middle ; seeds many , subglobose , arillate at the hilum . - Nuttall's Gen. U. grandiflora , leaves perfoliate , oblong , acute ; petals smooth within ...
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... reflected on the soil which nour- ished it , a glory that has crossed the broad Atlantic . Whoev- er reads the London Quarterly Review , for November last , will there find the taste and feeling of the British public , doing homage ...
... reflected on the soil which nour- ished it , a glory that has crossed the broad Atlantic . Whoev- er reads the London Quarterly Review , for November last , will there find the taste and feeling of the British public , doing homage ...
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... reflected , and moves in right lines with great velocity . The celebrated Florentine experiments , a modification of the former , seems at first sight to establish no less conclusively the radiation of a frigorific principle , which ob ...
... reflected , and moves in right lines with great velocity . The celebrated Florentine experiments , a modification of the former , seems at first sight to establish no less conclusively the radiation of a frigorific principle , which ob ...
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... reflecting power of any surface increases , whilst the radiating power diminishes , and vice versa , and that their ... reflecting power . Let r represent the quantity of caloric reflected from the body situated in A during the first ...
... reflecting power of any surface increases , whilst the radiating power diminishes , and vice versa , and that their ... reflecting power . Let r represent the quantity of caloric reflected from the body situated in A during the first ...
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Albany Institute. calorific emanations of the latter . Now the quantity reflected from any surface , must always be in the compound ratio of the reflecting power and the number of incident rays ; and , as in this case , the reflecting ...
Albany Institute. calorific emanations of the latter . Now the quantity reflected from any surface , must always be in the compound ratio of the reflecting power and the number of incident rays ; and , as in this case , the reflecting ...
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Page 39 - Alleghany, it is seldom seen farther north than the state of Maryland ; though straggling parties have been occasionally observed among the valleys of the ( Juniata; and, according to some, even twenty-five miles to the north-west of Albany, in the state of New York.
Page 35 - It is remarkable, that proceeding on the same parallel of latitude west war dly, the climate becomes colder in like manner as when you proceed northwardly. This continues to be the case till you attain the summit of the Alleghany, which is the highest land between the ocean and the Mississippi.