The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... terrestrial mammals . 8 . The Cretaceous or Chalk age . - Physical geography of its seas and shores . - Its lower marine life , foraminifera , sponges , star- fishes , sea - urchins , shell - fish , fishes , reptiles , birds , and mam ...
... terrestrial mammals . 8 . The Cretaceous or Chalk age . - Physical geography of its seas and shores . - Its lower marine life , foraminifera , sponges , star- fishes , sea - urchins , shell - fish , fishes , reptiles , birds , and mam ...
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... terrestrial fauna . While radiates , molluscs , and crustacea may feed on the thallogens , and insects , and it may be a few birds and rep- tiles , find their food and shelter among the acrogens and gymnogens , it is certainly to the ...
... terrestrial fauna . While radiates , molluscs , and crustacea may feed on the thallogens , and insects , and it may be a few birds and rep- tiles , find their food and shelter among the acrogens and gymnogens , it is certainly to the ...
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... terrestrial plant - the reticulate venation of a dicotyledon- ous leaf from the parallel arrangement of a monocotyledon -the scalariform tissue of a fern from the punctated tissue of a conifer - and the bundled mass of an endogenous ...
... terrestrial plant - the reticulate venation of a dicotyledon- ous leaf from the parallel arrangement of a monocotyledon -the scalariform tissue of a fern from the punctated tissue of a conifer - and the bundled mass of an endogenous ...
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... terrestrial tribes that are thus limited and restricted ; the aërial and aquatic , though possessing superior facilities for dispersion , are equally circumscribed , each within its own geographical habitat . The humming - birds flutter ...
... terrestrial tribes that are thus limited and restricted ; the aërial and aquatic , though possessing superior facilities for dispersion , are equally circumscribed , each within its own geographical habitat . The humming - birds flutter ...
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... terrestrial ; the amphibious bulkier than those that are strictly terrestrial ; the marine superior in size to those of fresh - water habitat ; and the terrestrial more massive than the arboreal . Ad- mitting these relations , and ...
... terrestrial ; the amphibious bulkier than those that are strictly terrestrial ; the marine superior in size to those of fresh - water habitat ; and the terrestrial more massive than the arboreal . Ad- mitting these relations , and ...
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abundance acrogens affinities America annelids appear areas aspects become birds bivalves botanist brachiopods cainozoic carboniferous cephalopods chalk character characterised climate club-mosses coal corals creation creatures CRETACEOUS crust crustaceans cycads deposits Devonian dicotyledonous earth's encrinites endogens eocene epoch equisetums estuaries Europe eurypterus evidence existing nature exogens external conditions extinct exuberant ferns fishes flora and fauna forest forms fossil fragments functions gasteropods genera and species genial geological geologists gigantic globe glyptodons growth gymnogens higher indicated latitudes limestones lower mammals marine marsupial mesozoic MOLLUSCA neozoic northern hemisphere numerous ocean Octavo old red sandstone oolite organic organisation palæontology paleontologist paleozoic palms peculiar period physical plants and animals pliocene present primal progress pterygotus races regions reptiles sauroid sea and land sea-urchins sea-weeds sediments shell-fish shores Silurian stage star-fishes strata structure terrestrial tertiary throng tion trace tree-ferns triassic trilobites true varied variety vegetable vertebrate vitality waters zoologist
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Стр. 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the 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. 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Стр. 210 - 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...