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He quite agreed in the view of the resorted to to explain the occurrence of the same species of Tertiary age of these rocks . With regard to the terminology insects in widely remote countries . He entered in considerable employed by the ...
He quite agreed in the view of the resorted to to explain the occurrence of the same species of Tertiary age of these rocks . With regard to the terminology insects in widely remote countries . He entered in considerable employed by the ...
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Schenk has considerably lessened the arches two feet wide with intervals of three feet between them , apparent number of species by reducing a great many of the and upon these is placed the flooring of the upper rooms , which names ...
Schenk has considerably lessened the arches two feet wide with intervals of three feet between them , apparent number of species by reducing a great many of the and upon these is placed the flooring of the upper rooms , which names ...
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On the on the mounted skeleton of the young hippoptoamus , recently born other hand , Mr. Scott named several species which he had himin the Society's Gardens . -- The Viscount Walden read a paper self observed in situ , and which are ...
On the on the mounted skeleton of the young hippoptoamus , recently born other hand , Mr. Scott named several species which he had himin the Society's Gardens . -- The Viscount Walden read a paper self observed in situ , and which are ...
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West . none of it was bottled , if only for curiosity ; it might lead you to wood read descriptions of new species of Lucanidæ . – Mr. Bates something of a knowledge of seasons , as I never saw so many read a description of a remarkable ...
West . none of it was bottled , if only for curiosity ; it might lead you to wood read descriptions of new species of Lucanidæ . – Mr. Bates something of a knowledge of seasons , as I never saw so many read a description of a remarkable ...
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This species is most common away up the hill side , and would either pass into the distance , in the Desert , but three other kinds are also found , viz . P. exustus or as suddenly return to me . From this I am convinced that and P.
This species is most common away up the hill side , and would either pass into the distance , in the Desert , but three other kinds are also found , viz . P. exustus or as suddenly return to me . From this I am convinced that and P.
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Стр. 268 - Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 268 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 260 - ... shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Стр. 264 - I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Стр. 263 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Стр. 260 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 293 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Стр. 30 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
Стр. 198 - I2mo. With Illustrations. Cloth, $2.00. " The present volume is for the most part a record of bodily action, written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours, and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions associated with mountain-life.
Стр. 268 - ... have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.