 Consider their incredible numbers, their universal distribution, their insatiable voracity; and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted...  The Microscope - Page 176de Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 457 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1859 - 932 pages
...distribution, their insatiable voracity ; and tliat it is the particles of decaying vegetable and aninml bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate....must in some degree be indebted to these ever-active scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important... | |
 | 1843 - 504 pages
...important offices of the economy of nature, on which our own wellbeing more or less immediately depends. Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those over active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Xor is this all : they... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1843 - 408 pages
...important offices of the economy of nature, on which our own well-being more or less immediately depends. Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those ever active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all: they perform... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 pages
...important offices of the economy of nature, on which our own well-being, more or lees, immediately depends. "Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...assimilate. "Surely we must, in some degree, be indebted to those ever active, invisible scavengers, for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all, they... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1848 - 186 pages
...DEFINITIONS. Let me be allowed to quote Professor Owen, as to their use in creation. " Consider," he observes, "their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. * How times change! it was only in the year 1819, that a wit of the day wrote "engage him in some useless... | |
 | John Harris - 1850 - 324 pages
...sustenance of other forms of life. " Consider (says Professor Owen in his Lectures on the Invertebrata) their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...ever-active invisible scavengers, for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important ofiice in preventing the gradual... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 pages
...lectures on the invertebrata. ' Consider,' he observes with reference to the infusorial animalcules, ' their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...ever-active, invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important office in preventing the gradual... | |
 | 1850 - 268 pages
...lectures on the invertebrata. ' Consider,' he observes with reference to the infusorial animalcules, ' their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...ever-active, invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important office in preventing the gradual... | |
 | John Harris - 1850 - 322 pages
...sustenance of other forms of life. " Consider (says Professor Owen in his Lectures on the Invertebrata) their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...ever-active invisible scavengers, for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important office in preventing the gradual... | |
 | John Harris - 1851 - 368 pages
...sustenance of other forms of life. " Consider (says Professor Owen in his Lectures on the Invertebrata) their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...ever-active invisible scavengers, for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important office in preventing the gradual... | |
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