Proceedings of the Essex Institute, Volumes 1-2Essex Institute Press, 1856 - Essex County (Mass.) "Communications" from 1848-64 were incorporated in the Proceedings; from 1864-70 they were issued with independent title-pages and pagination. |
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... living creature . An article of commerce prepared for the Chinese market , and called Beche de mer , was shown . There are several varieties of Beche de mer , all belong to the Holothuria , a sort of marine slug or soft sea - urchin ...
... living creature . An article of commerce prepared for the Chinese market , and called Beche de mer , was shown . There are several varieties of Beche de mer , all belong to the Holothuria , a sort of marine slug or soft sea - urchin ...
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... living spe- cimens at Pound beach . Venus gemma . Common in Lynn harbor . Cardium pinnatulum . * In all parts of the Bay ; very common ; also , taken by a dredge near Swampscot . Cardium Islandicum . * Frequent . Cardium Grænlandicum ...
... living spe- cimens at Pound beach . Venus gemma . Common in Lynn harbor . Cardium pinnatulum . * In all parts of the Bay ; very common ; also , taken by a dredge near Swampscot . Cardium Islandicum . * Frequent . Cardium Grænlandicum ...
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... living , nor actually lifeless . Others have derived them from the sportive wantonness of plastic nature ; even so late as the year 1820 , the power of charming , ( Zauberkraft ) with which some of these forms were supposed to be endued ...
... living , nor actually lifeless . Others have derived them from the sportive wantonness of plastic nature ; even so late as the year 1820 , the power of charming , ( Zauberkraft ) with which some of these forms were supposed to be endued ...
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... living and moving , but as afterwards becoming fixed , and growing into fungi ; the smut of grain , which , on the same authority , when mace- rated in water , becomes an oblong hyaline animalcule : lastly , in what he call his " Chaos ...
... living and moving , but as afterwards becoming fixed , and growing into fungi ; the smut of grain , which , on the same authority , when mace- rated in water , becomes an oblong hyaline animalcule : lastly , in what he call his " Chaos ...
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... living animal organisms on the earth . These labors of Professor Ehrenberg have led , as he informs us , to the establishment of two great principles , viz : That there is an animal organization , which does not proceed by gradation ...
... living animal organisms on the earth . These labors of Professor Ehrenberg have led , as he informs us , to the establishment of two great principles , viz : That there is an animal organization , which does not proceed by gradation ...
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