 | 1891 - 766 Seiten
...inquiry." * Speculation is rife as to the coming man. May we not ask what plants the coming man will use ? There is an enormous disproportion between the total...one-tenth, so that we are within very safe limits in talcing the number of existing species to be somewhat above one hundred and ten thousand.1 .Now if... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - 1891 - 64 Seiten
...inquiry." * Speculation is rife as to the coming man. May we not ask what plants the coming man will use ? There is an enormous disproportion between the total...unexplored or imperfectly explored regions may increase the * For references, notes, etc., see p. 300. aggregate perhaps one-tenth, so that we are within very... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 604 Seiten
...There is an enormous disproportion between the total number of 'i'n references, notes, etc., see p. 33. species of plants known to botanical science and the...limits in taking the number of existing species to be somewliat above one hundred and ten thousand.1 Now if we should make a comprehensive list of all the... | |
 | 1892 - 928 Seiten
...inquiry.* Speculation is rife as to the coming man. May we not ask what plants the coming man will use ? There is an enormous disproportion between the total...explored regions may increase the aggregate perhaps one tenth, so that we are within very safe limits * The following are among the more useful works of... | |
 | 1892 - 790 Seiten
...inquiry.! Speculation is rife as to the coining man. May we not ask what plants the coming man will use? There is an enormous disproportion between the total...flowering plants already described and named are about 107,000. Acquisitions from unexplored or imperfectly explored regions may increase the aggregate perhaps... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1892 - 710 Seiten
...families are entitled to he called the true royal families among cultivated plants. There is a vast disproportion between the total number of species...plants known to botanical science, and the number of these employed by man. Now if we should make a comprehensive list of all the flowering plants which... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 816 Seiten
...inquiry.! Speculation is rife as to the coming man. May we not ask what plants the coming man will use? There is an enormous disproportion between the total...of flowering plants already described and named are abont 107,000. Acquisitions from unexplored or imperfectly explored regions may increase the aggregate... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 786 Seiten
...inquiry.t Speculation is rife as to the coming man. May we not ask what plants the coming man will use? There is an enormous disproportion between the total number of species of plants known to botanical scieiice and the number of those which are employed by man. The species of flowering plants already... | |
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... realized rapidly that they become accomplished facts before we are aware. In asking what are the possibilities that other plants than those we now use may be utilized we enter upon a many-sided inquiry." * Speculation is rife as to the coming man.... 