 I have counted above 10,000,000), so subtile (they are scarcely visible to the naked eye, and often resemble thin smoke), so light (raised, perhaps, by evaporation into the atmosphere), and are dispersed in so many ways (by the attraction of the sun,...  Principles of General and Comparative Physiology - Page 60de William Benjamin Carpenter - 1838 - 80 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
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...and are dispersed in so many ways by the attraction of the sun, insects, wind, electricity, adhesion, &c., that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded.' There is, therefore, no impossibility in the supposition that they may obtain access to the most secret... | |
 | John Lindley, John Torrey - 1831 - 486 pages
...are dispersed in so many ways (by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c.), that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded." I give his words as nearly as possible, because they may be considered the sum of all that has to be... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1832 - 456 pages
...dispersed in so tnany ways by the attraction of ihe sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, and adhesion, that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded."— binds. Nat. Syst. 335. * во D'Urville found, and has noticed. " Pulverulent lichens are the first... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1832 - 272 pages
...evaporation through the air, they are dispersed by the wind, by insects, elasticity, and adhesion, so that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded. From all that has been said, we may fairly conclude, that the notion of fortuitous, or equivocal production,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 358 pages
...and dispersed in so many ways by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c., that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they may be excluded." In turning our attention, in the next place, to the instrumentality of the aqueous... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 424 pages
...dispersed in so many ways by the attraction of I he sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, and adhesion, that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can he excluded."—Linds. Nat. Syst. 335. * So D'Urville found, and has noticed. " Pulverulent lichens... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1835 - 578 pages
...dispersed in so many ways by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind. elasticity, adhesion, etc., that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded. We have also an account of a vegetable matter which fell suddenly from the sky in Persia, in the early... | |
 | John M. Moffatt - 1835 - 854 pages
...and dispersed in so inany ways by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c., that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they may be excluded."* To what great distances heavy substances in a state of minute division may be conveyed... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1836 - 454 pages
...are dispersed in BO many ways (by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &,c.), that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded.' I give his words as nearly as possible, because they may be considered the sum of all that has to be... | |
 | John Lindley - 1836 - 570 pages
...are dispersed in so many ways (by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c.), that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded." I give his words as nearly as possible, because they may be considered the sum of all that has to be... | |
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