 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 686 pages
...time of Miller, it has been introduced as such in parks and pleasure-ground scenery. About the end of the last century, and in the beginning of the present one, it was recommended by Adam, Sang, and others, in Scotland, and by Pontey in England, as well adapted... | |
 | 1840 - 854 pages
...tracheotomy in croup, although it appears to have been occasionally resorted to for centuries. In the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present one, this operation was more frequently repeated both in Europe and in America, — but with so little success,... | |
 | David Dudley Field - Chatham (Conn. : Town) - 1853 - 338 pages
...vessels were built at two yards. Some individuals were considerably concerned in navigation, in the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present many young men engaged in sea-faring life, and quite a number first and last had the command of vessels.*... | |
 | James Brown (of Arniston.) - Forests and forestry - 1861 - 730 pages
...since the date last named ; and in making these statements I do so from my own observations. 23. In the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present one, the chief planters in Scotland were the Duke of Atholl, Lord Breadalbane. and Sir J. Grant of Strathspey,... | |
 | Charles Locke Eastlake - Architecture - 1872 - 528 pages
...definitions. Those who would form a just estimate of the popular taste for old English Architecture, in the latter part of the last century and in the beginning of the present, need only examine any of the so-called Gothic buildings of that period to perceive the utter want of... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - Education - 1873 - 542 pages
...then came the war against revolutionary France, with its drain and its reverses. There were, in the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present — in what some probably still persist in regarding as the " good old times" — many bad harvests,... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - Education - 1873 - 556 pages
...then came the war against revolutionary France, with its drain and its reverses. There were, in the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present — in what some probably still persist in regarding as the " good old times" — many bad harvests,... | |
 | J. J. Clute - Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) - 1877 - 266 pages
...broke out, and the Island was nearly depopulated, this house, and its occupants, were spared. In the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present, all the territory embraced in the first, and most ofthe second wards of the present Village of New... | |
 | George Benn - Belfast - 1880 - 248 pages
...M'Donnell. " DR. SS STEPHENSON, an eminent and most honourable physician, practised in this town in the latter part of the last century, and in the beginning of the present. In him was an illustration as to how a man could change the current of great talents into a different... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1880 - 982 pages
...of those media iu contributing to the increased substance of the plants themselves. Towards the end of the last century, and in the beginning of the present one, De Saussure followed up these inquiries ; and in his work entitled, ' Recherches Chimiques sur la Vegetation,'... | |
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Saussure followed up these enquiries ; and, in his work already alluded to, he may be said to have indicated, if not indeed established, some of the most important facts with which we are yet acquainted regarding the sources of the constituents of the... 
