Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Conference. Papers: A recent Scientific Voyage to South America. Mr. R. DeC. Ward.- Note on the Nitre Deposits of the Atacama Desert. Dr. Charles Palache. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Papers: A recent Scientific Voyage to South America. Mr. R. DeC. Ward.- Note on the Nitre Deposits of the Atacama Desert. Dr. Charles Palache. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...University Museum received last week a new consignment of glass flowers, comprising twenty or thirty species of very complicated structure. They will be used to fill up gaps in the series, and are now nearly all in place. The river weeds have been put beside some desert plants, in order to show the differences between plants growing in water and those growing where there is but little moisture. In the case showing the relation of plants to animals are two species of bladderwort which capture minute water-animals. Some of the very beautiful tropical plants that Mr. Blaschka has been...
...danger, but she has all the bravery of Jesezebel her mother, calling her litter she instantly comes in person to the temple. Appalled by the scene she finds there, she can only rend her garments and cry, "Treason, Treason," but no one will come to her assistance, her officers desert her. The High Priest pronounces her fate. She is led out beyond the sacred precincts and there slain...
Specimens illustrating the dissemination of plants have been arranged in a systematic manner. in connection with representations of the different forms assumed by seedlings Close by these cases is one which are displayed the plants living under desert conditions...