[The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H.G. Wells]@TWC D-Link bookThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth CHAPTER THE FIRST 9/13
It is Herakleophorbia IV.
which I--insisting upon Bensington's original name--call here the Food of the Gods. III. The idea was Mr.Bensington's.
But as it was suggested to him by one of Professor Redwood's contributions to the Philosophical Transactions, he very properly consulted that gentleman before he carried it further. Besides which it was, as a research, a physiological, quite as much as a chemical inquiry. Professor Redwood was one of those scientific men who are addicted to tracings and curves.
You are familiar--if you are at all the sort of reader I like--with the sort of scientific paper I mean.
It is a paper you cannot make head nor tail of, and at the end come five or six long folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called "smoothed curves" set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissae--and things like that.
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