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The diminution in sales is largely due to the downturn in the economy.
Then follow in the report details of observations made on the rise and fall of diseases, of which diarrhœa, dysentery, cholera, ague, and dengue were selected and compared with the increase or diminution of atmospheric cells.
This portion of the resonator passage can be enlarged to a slight degree by traction upon the larynx below (sterno-thyroid muscle), by looseness of the pharyngeal muscles, and still more by the forward placement of the tongue; the converse is true as regards diminution in size.
He also goes on to say, that, "at the end of each month all the animals at the sheepfold are weighed separately, and thanks to these monthly weighings, we have drawn up several tables from which are seen the diminution or increase in weight of the different animals classed in various points of view, whether according to age, sex or the object for which they were intended.
Others therefore have thought that they did proceed from the body of the Sun, and that that Planet onely is Cometarum officina, unde tanquam emissarii & exploratores emitterentur, brevi ad solem redituri: The shop or forge of Comets from whence they were sent, like so many spies, that they might in some short space returne againe, but this cannot be, since if so much matter had proceeded from him alone, it would have made a sensible diminution in his body.
Comparing the results for the last one hundred and fifty years, we find an extraordinary growth for the German races, an equally surprising diminution for the French and other Latin races, while the proportion of Englishmen has remained unchanged.
Six days after sunrise the craters are again nearly of the same size, owing to the diminution of Messier.
The length of the day is also nearly the same for both, the Martian day being slightly longer; but the most serious factor is the greater distance of Mars, and the consequent diminution in the light and heat received from the Sun.
Then, in the next six weeks, it recedes as far, and there is a like diminution.
The “Algol variables” are cases where the two components are of very unequal brightness, and, being very close to each other, are so placed with respect to the Earth that the fainter partly eclipses the brighter in its revolution round it, and so causes a temporary diminution in its light at regular intervals.
Here you see the perfection of our Art, without any defect or diminution.
If it is desired to try less, the diminution should be very gradual, and a watch should be kept for any lessening of strength.
For this reason great discrepancies exist in the statements made regarding them by different observers,[Pg 23] but this is a matter of comparatively small importance, as their exact composition has no very direct bearing on agricultural questions, and it will suffice to give the names and chemical formulæ of those which have been analysed and described,- Ulmic acid from long Frisian turf C40 H18 O16 Humic acid from hard turf C40 H15 O15 Humic acid from arable soil C40 H16 O16 Humic acid from a pasture field C40 H14 O14 Geic acid C40 H15 O17 Apocrenic acid C48 H12 O24 Crenic acid C24 H12 O16 It is only necessary to observe further, that these formulæ indicate a close connection with woody fibre, and the continuous diminution of the hydrogen and increase of oxygen shows that they must have been produced by a gradually advancing decay.
Thus Boussingault has shown that on the average of years, the crops cultivated on an acre of land remove from it about one ton more organic matter than they receive in the manure applied to them, although there is no corresponding diminution in the quantity of humus contained in the soil.
He allowed plants of the common bean and the Polygonum Persicaria to grow in solutions of humate of potash, and found a very trifling diminution in the quantity of humic acid present; but the value of his experiments is invalidated by his having omitted to ascertain whether the diminution of humic acid which he[Pg 27] observed was really due to absorption by the plant.
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