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... Coast reach the low elevation of 700 feet above sea level . The mountains in the North Island are chiefly in the Southern and Eastern parts and are neither so lofty nor so grand as the Southern Alps few attaining a height of 6,000 feet ...
... Coast reach the low elevation of 700 feet above sea level . The mountains in the North Island are chiefly in the Southern and Eastern parts and are neither so lofty nor so grand as the Southern Alps few attaining a height of 6,000 feet ...
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... coast of the South Island through Westland and Nelson to the neigh- bourhood of Collingwood . They have not yet been found in the North Island . The lower members of the series are con- torted schists , foliated with quartz , and ...
... coast of the South Island through Westland and Nelson to the neigh- bourhood of Collingwood . They have not yet been found in the North Island . The lower members of the series are con- torted schists , foliated with quartz , and ...
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... Coast . The formation to which Dr. Hector has applied the name " Cretaceo - Tertiary , " from its fossils presenting , to some ex- tent , both Tertiary and Mesozoic features , is widely distributed . In its upper part it consists of ...
... Coast . The formation to which Dr. Hector has applied the name " Cretaceo - Tertiary , " from its fossils presenting , to some ex- tent , both Tertiary and Mesozoic features , is widely distributed . In its upper part it consists of ...
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... coast of Australia . This line of elevation also corres- ponds with the general lines of Plutonic and Volcanic out- bursts , which extend along the Eastern foot of the mountain ranges of the South Island and the Western foot of those of ...
... coast of Australia . This line of elevation also corres- ponds with the general lines of Plutonic and Volcanic out- bursts , which extend along the Eastern foot of the mountain ranges of the South Island and the Western foot of those of ...
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... coast by about mile wide and contain valuable coal seams estimated to yield about a million tons , and which are seen outcropping in the precipi tous cliffs . The Shag Point Colliery works a seam of pitch coal 7 feet thick , which is ...
... coast by about mile wide and contain valuable coal seams estimated to yield about a million tons , and which are seen outcropping in the precipi tous cliffs . The Shag Point Colliery works a seam of pitch coal 7 feet thick , which is ...
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Стр. 41 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse: a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable...
Стр. 43 - In short, we shall have to treat species in the same manner as those naturalists treat genera, who admit that genera are merely artificial combinations made for convenience. This may not be a cheering prospect ; but we shall at least be freed from the vain search for the undiscovered and undiscoverable essence of the term species.
Стр. 47 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Стр. 42 - I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Стр. 48 - For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived.
Стр. 46 - Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?
Стр. 42 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Стр. 49 - ... Obviously, if the earliest fossiliferous rocks now known are coeval with the commencement of life, and if their contents give us any just conception of the nature and the extent of the earliest fauna and flora, the insignificant amount of modification which can be demonstrated to have taken place in any one group of animals or plants is quite incompatible with the hypothesis that all living forms are the results of a necessary process of progressive development, entirely comprised within the...
Стр. 51 - Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on the "Nature of Limbs.
Стр. 46 - Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.