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" Now. why is this marvellous variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result from some innate tendency of each species? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man ? Or has the form and size and texture some reference... "
Flowers, Fruits and Leaves - Página 98
por Sir John Lubbock - 1886 - 147 páginas
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen27

1885 - 900 páginas
...innate tendency of each species ? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man ? or have the form, and size, and texture some reference to...abnormal forms of leaves : the pitchers of Nepenthes or Cephalotits, the pitfalls of Sarracenia or Darlingtonia, the spring -trap leaves of Dioncea, the scarcely...
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The Development of Taste, and Other Studies in Aesthetics

W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 426 páginas
...variety in the appearances of leaves, ask, as if the questions were mutually exclusive and inconsistent, "Does it result from some innate tendency of each...organization, the habits and requirements of the whole plant?"1 and then proceed to write and to investigate as if an affirmative to the last question could...
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The Development of Taste, and Other Studies in Aesthetics

W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 424 páginas
...variety in the appearances of leaves, ask, as if the questions were mutually exclusive and inconsistent, "Does it result from some innate tendency of each...delight the eye of man \ or has the form, and size, and THE USE OF BEAUTY. 331 texture some reference to the structure and organization, the habits and requirements...
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Reader in Botany: Selected and Adapted from Well-known Authors. From ..., Parte1

Jane Hancox Newell - 1889 - 232 páginas
...1880. p. 97. in wreaths, endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstock to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness...any of the more unusual and abnormal forms of leaves ; . . . I propose, rather, to ask you to consider the structure, and especially the forms, of the common,...
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Outlines of Lessons in Botany: From seed to leaf, Parte1

Jane Hancox Newell - 1889 - 232 páginas
...1886. p. 97. in wreaths, endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstock to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness...any of the more unusual and abnormal forms of leaves ; . . . I propose, rather, to ask you to consider the structure, and especially the forms, of the common,...
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Nature, Volumen42

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 928 páginas
...observe that the forms of leaves are almost infinitely varied. To quote Ruskin's vivid words, they "take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant ? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the...
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Nature, Volumen42

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 812 páginas
...kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shap:d, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated,...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant ? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the...
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Nature, Volumen42

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 708 páginas
...spires, in wreaths, endlessly expressive, | deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to j blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness,...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the interior...
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The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions

1891 - 1226 páginas
...from some innate tendency of each species ? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man Î Or has the form and size and texture some reference...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant ? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the...
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The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in

Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 492 páginas
...variety ? this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result from some innate tendency in each species ? Is it intentionally designed to delight...size and texture some reference to the structure and organisation, the habits and requirements of the whole plant ? I shall never forget hearing Darwin's...
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