Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 766
saw. We know aboutthese scales now, but they will always be at-tractive, because thirty or forty years ago theystirred up quite a scientific contest. The wing of the mosquito is a beautiful ob-ject even under a low magnifying power of thecompound microscope, as shown below in thephotograph of the… … FRINGE OF HAIR-LIKE SCALES ON THE EDGE AND ON THE VEINSOF THE WING OF A MOSQUITO. 746 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [June, RADIUM. The new metal, radium, which hasbeen so much talked and written aboutduring the last few months, turns outto be a sort of natural Roman candle,since, in addition…
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