The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 104National Geographic Society, 1953 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... light , times the miracle of flowering . When the night shortens or lengthens to a certain span , an unknown trigger mechanism tells plants that it is the season to blossom . Sometimes if a plant's normal night is broken by even a short ...
... light , times the miracle of flowering . When the night shortens or lengthens to a certain span , an unknown trigger mechanism tells plants that it is the season to blossom . Sometimes if a plant's normal night is broken by even a short ...
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... light - fishing was no new experience for me ; I had done it often in the waters of the Gulf Stream off Bimini . * But the marine fauna revealed by the light here in the Strait of Messina proved no less cap- tivating a sight than had ...
... light - fishing was no new experience for me ; I had done it often in the waters of the Gulf Stream off Bimini . * But the marine fauna revealed by the light here in the Strait of Messina proved no less cap- tivating a sight than had ...
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... light . We had been drifting , and the fauna had changed . Gone were the fleets of fiery jelly creatures . Now myriad crablike Lillipu- tians , no larger than grains of wheat , were whirling in the light . Their colors - tints of red ...
... light . We had been drifting , and the fauna had changed . Gone were the fleets of fiery jelly creatures . Now myriad crablike Lillipu- tians , no larger than grains of wheat , were whirling in the light . Their colors - tints of red ...
Contents
Fact Finding for Tomorrows Planes A Little Faninabox Wind | v |
All America Mingles in the Prairie State | ix |
Rip Van Winkle of the Underground North Americas Much Misunder | xii |
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