| Edward Woodall - 1884 - 94 pages
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| Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 pages
...America, after being pondered for many years, led to the publication of the Origin of Sptcies in 1859. When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts... | |
| Grant Allen - 1885 - 238 pages
...Species.' In the Introduction to that immortal work Darwin wrote, some twenty-seven years later, ' When on board HMS " Beagle " as naturalist, I was...distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts,... | |
| David Starr Jordan - 1887 - 296 pages
...anxious for sudden greatness, who wishes to gather his strawberries before they are ripe. He says : — "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much...distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pages
...Let us see how he states the case in the famous modest opening of the " Origin of Species" (1859) : "When on board HMS .Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 228 pages
...case in the famous modest opening of the " Origin of Species "(1859) : "When on board HMS JBeagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants... | |
| 1962 - 1414 pages
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| Samuel Butler - 1890 - 304 pages
...without father and without mother in the works of other people. Here is its opening paragraph : — "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants... | |
| Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 pages
...of Species." In the work on that subject, published in 1859, he thus referred to the former period: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 pages
...ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins : — "When on hoard HMS ' Beagle ' as naturalist, I was much struck with...distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts,... | |
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