 | 1860 - 566 síður
...edge of a little pond. This mud, when dry, weighed only 6^ ounces. I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew. The plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number; and yet the viscid mud was all contained... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 síður
...of a little pond ; this mud, when dried, weighed only G| ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew ; the plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number ; and yet the viscid mud was all... | |
 | 1860 - 894 síður
...pond. This mud, when dry, weighed only six nnd three-fourths ounces. I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew. The plants were of many kinds, «mil were altogether live hundred and thirty-seven in number; and yet... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 síður
...edge of a little pond ; this mud when dry weighed only 6f ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew ; the plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number ; and yet the viscid mud was all... | |
 | 1862 - 446 síður
...this mud, when dried, weighed only six and three-quarter ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew. The plants were of many kinds, and were altogether five hundred and thirty-seven in number ; and yet... | |
 | 1862 - 448 síður
...this mud, when dried, weighed only six and three-quarter ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew. The plants were of many kinds, and were altogether five hundred and thirty-seven in number ; and yet... | |
 | 1862 - 476 síður
...pond; this mud, when dried, weighed only six and three-quarter ounces; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew. The plants were of many kinds, and were altogether five hundred and thirty-seven in number; and yet... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 síður
...edge of a little pond ; this mud when dry weighed only 6J ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew ; the plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 53Y in number ; and yet the viscid mud was all... | |
 | 1865 - 458 síður
...this mud, when dried, weighed only six and three-quarter ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew. The plants were of muny kinds, and were altogether five hundred and thirty-seven in number ; and yet... | |
 | Henry Walker (F.G.S.) - 1871 - 160 síður
...different points beneath water on the edge of a little pond ? that he kept this mud covered up in his study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as - it grew ? that the plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number, and yet all the viscid mud... | |
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I took in February three tablespoonfuls of mud from three different points, beneath water, on the edge of a little pond : this mud when dried weighed only 6^ ounces; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as... 
