True dacites, closely similar to those of the neighbouring Ngaingai and having a specific gravity of 2·61, were displayed often in slab-like blocks from the base to near the top.
Boulders and fragments of a closely similar basalt, with a specific gravity of 2·9, lie about on the surface in this region.
In the case of the Kiombo flow I have endeavoured to explain the origin of a closely similar pitch-stone-breccia (page 92).
The position of the chelicerae of Limulus and of the ganglionic nerve-masses from which they receive their nerve-supply, is closely similar to that of the same structures in Scorpio.
Their minute structure is closely similar in the two cases; the leaf-like plates receive blood from the great sternal sinus, and serve as respiratory organs.
The great dorsal contractile vessel or "heart" of Limulus is closely similar to that of Scorpio; its ostia or incurrent orifices are placed in the same somites as those of Scorpio, but there is one additional posterior pair.
The relation of embryos to pouch in Dasyurus, therefore, is closely similar to that of embryos to uterus after the first few days of pregnancy in the Eutheria.
The crossed and self-fertilised plants were generally grown in pots in competition with one another, and always under as closely similar conditions as could be attained.
The plants had also been subjected in each generation to closely similar conditions.
As further corroboration, however, I shall quote still another independent andclosely similar observation, which I find in a letter to me from Sir J.
A closely similar case is recorded in Mr. Duncan's book on 'Instinct' of a dog belonging to the Rev.
A closely similar, and therefore corroborative case of an even more remarkable kind is thus narrated in Watson's 'Reasoning Power of Animals' (p.
Rime is, in its most general signification, the repetition, usually at regulated intervals, of identical or closely similar sounds.
That it does not harmonize with the co-existence of closely similar structures of diverse origin.
In the foregoing cases, we see the same end gained and the same function performed, in beings not at all or only remotely allied, by organs in appearance, though not in development, closely similar.
Closely similar to bating is "puering," investigated by Wood.
Isle of Bourbon, which have a closely similar structure.
At the Galapagos Archipelago (as will be described in a future chapter), great beds are formed of volcanic ashes and particles of scoriae, which have undergone a closely similar change.
X] Schmidt regards the Strepyan implements, which are considered by Rutot and others to be transitional, between the Mesvinian and the Chellean, as closely similar to the Pre-Chellean of France and probably of the same age.
When the movements of leaves or cotyledons, furnished with a pulvinus and destitute of one, are compared, they are seen to be closely similar, and are apparently effected for the same purpose.
Two other seedlings were observed, and behaved during three days in a closely similar manner.
The nyctitropic movements of 11 species were observed, and were found to be closely similar.
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