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Report of the Annual Meeting - Page lxxix
by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1871
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The Living Age, Volume 107

1870 - 846 pages
...Xenogenesis rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded...eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately, ibr the benefit of Button and Needham. Once more, an Italian, the Abbe Spallanzani, a worthy successor...
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Journal of the Chemical Society, Volume 97, Part 1

Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1910 - 1364 pages
...very possibly have allowed them to bias my judgment. Moreover, I have suffered what Huxley called that great tragedy of science — " the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." But I regard this as a proper and desirable ending, and am glad to have helped in the " happy dispatch,"...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Geology - 1870 - 506 pages
...Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded...of Buffon and Needham. Once more, an Italian, the Abbe Spallanzani, a worthy successor and representative of Eedi in his acuteness, his ingenuity, and...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded...of Buffon and Needham. Once more, an Italian, the Abbe Spallanzani, a worthy successor and representative of Redi in his acuteness, his ingenuity, and...
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Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded...of Buffon and Needham. Once more, an Italian, the Abb6 Spallanzani, a worthy successor and representative of Redi in his acuteness, his ingenuity, 'and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 107

American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...Xenogenesis rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded...almost immediately, for the benefit of Buffon and Needbam. Once more, an Italian, the Abbe Spallanzani, a worthy successor and representative of Redi...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 40

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 720 pages
...Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will bo just enough to remember that it was propounded before...and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact—which is so constantly being enacted...
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Science - 1871 - 316 pages
...xenogenesis rather than under abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded before the birth of modern chemistry and of the mo tern optical arts to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science...
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...xenogenesis rather than under abiogenesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded before the birth of modern chemistry and of the molern optical arts to be a most ingenious and suggestive speculation. But the great tragedy of science...
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English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are ..., Volume 12

Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...Xenogeuesis rather than under Abiogeuesis. Such as it was, I think it will appear, to those who will be just enough to remember that it was propounded before the birth of modem chemistry and of the modern optical arts, to be a most ingenious anil suggestive speculation....
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