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Excerpt from Up-to-Date Truck Growing in the SouthThere are almost as many different kinds of soils in the South as there are varieties of vegetables grown. Some soils are suited to certain crops, and entirely unsuited to others. I shall endeavor to advise, as each crop is taken up, what class of soil is best adapted to that particular crop. In a general way, however, I will say while on this subject, that for nearly all crops of vegetables it...

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Excerpt from L. M.B.C. Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants and Animals, Vol. 10: Patella (the Common Limpet)The Liverpool Marine Biology Committee was constituted in 1885, with the object of investigating the Fauna and Flora of the Irish Sea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten ...

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Excerpt from The Natural History of Animals, Vol. 8: The Animal Life of the World in Its Various Aspects and RelationsMuch kind assistance has also been given by the Secretaries to the French, German, Italian, Russian, and us. Embassies, the Legations of Holland and Scandinavia, the Italian Chamber of Commerce, the Imperial Russian Financial Agency, our own Department for Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company, al...

Excerpt from The Natural History of Animals, Vol. 2: The Animal Life of the World in Its Various Aspects and RelationsA, Skull and part of vertebral column. B, End view of a caudal vertebra, and longitudinal section through centra of two vertebrae. C, Pectoral fin (from below). D, Pelvic fin (from below).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is...

Excerpt from The Natural History of Animals, Vol. 1: The Animal Life of the World in Its Various Aspects and RelationsThe Introduction fully explains the plan of the work, and the lines which have been adopted in writing it, and books to which the Author is specially indebted are either mentioned in the text, or included in a special list at the end. It is both mentally and physically impossible for one zoologist to know at first hand more tha...

Excerpt from The Natural History of Animals, Vol. 7: The Animal Life of the World in Its Various Aspects and RelationsAny change in the surroundings which brings the sensitive ness of an organism into play is technically known as a stimulus (l. Slz'mulus, an ox-goad), and stimuli may broadly be classified as mechanical, chemical, thermal, photic, and electrical. The corresponding stimulating agents are pressure, change in chemi cal nature of t...

Excerpt from An Elementary Text-Book of Biology, Vol. 2: Comprising Vegetable and Animal Morphology and Physiology, Animal Morphology and PhysiologyThe range of these subdivisions will be comprehended more clearly if we consider what questions they seek to answer in regard to some particular animal, say, for example, the common Frog.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.f...

Excerpt from Thomas H. HuxleyAN attempt has been made in this short biography to bring into prominence Huxley's scientific work, though much of it was of so specialized a nature as to make a full presentment to other than professed zoologists practically impossible. It has been necessary to incur a large debt to Mr. Leonard Huxley's admirable Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, the chief source of information, and this is gratefully ackno...

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This book presents an approach to understanding and solving the problems of corrosion of structural materials.

A comprehensive materials dictionary. It features 10, 000 authoritative entries, covering materials, processes, and concepts related to ferrous and nonferrous metals, plastics, ceramics, composites, and adhesives. The terms and definitions are supplemented by approximately 700 figures and more than 150 tables.

This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion.

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Magic. Myth. Warfare. Wonder. Beauty. Bravery. Glamour. Gore. Sorcery. Sensuality. These and many more elements of fantasy await you in the pages of Griots, which brings you the latest stories of the new genre called Sword and Soul. The tales told in Griots are the annals of the Africa that was, as well as Africas that never were, may have been, or should have been. They are the legends of a continent and people emerging from shadows thrust up...

Excerpt from L. M.B.C. Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants and Animals, Vol. 10: Patella (the Common Limpet) The Liverpool Marine Biology Committee was constituted in 1885, with the object of investigating the Fauna and Flora of the Irish Sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Fo...

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