The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... vast thickness of sediments could never have been produced without the existence of broad lands from which they were transported by rivers , or of sea - shores from which they were abraded by waves and tidal currents ? Could ...
... vast thickness of sediments could never have been produced without the existence of broad lands from which they were transported by rivers , or of sea - shores from which they were abraded by waves and tidal currents ? Could ...
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... vast and characteristic display of trilobites ( three - lobed ) , a form of crustacean almost restricted to the period ; toge- ther with the larger and higher forms of eurypterites ( broad- fins - in allusion to their paddle - like ...
... vast and characteristic display of trilobites ( three - lobed ) , a form of crustacean almost restricted to the period ; toge- ther with the larger and higher forms of eurypterites ( broad- fins - in allusion to their paddle - like ...
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... great force ; and fishes of various families swarm in vast profu- sion . Gigantic annelids , * large as a man's. Aliantites Eibernicus - Yellow Sandstone Series of Ireland . 1 , Coccosteus ; 2 , P : erichthys ;. DEVONIAN ERA . 93.
... great force ; and fishes of various families swarm in vast profu- sion . Gigantic annelids , * large as a man's. Aliantites Eibernicus - Yellow Sandstone Series of Ireland . 1 , Coccosteus ; 2 , P : erichthys ;. DEVONIAN ERA . 93.
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... vast variety of trees of unknown relation- ship , as sigillaria ( fluted bark ) , stigmaria ( dotted bark ) , now known to be the roots of sigillaria , & c . , lepidodendron ( scaly stem ) , bothrodendron ( pitted stem ) , favularia ...
... vast variety of trees of unknown relation- ship , as sigillaria ( fluted bark ) , stigmaria ( dotted bark ) , now known to be the roots of sigillaria , & c . , lepidodendron ( scaly stem ) , bothrodendron ( pitted stem ) , favularia ...
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... vast luxuriance and variety , clothing every river- side and plain , and spreading over every swamp in one im- penetrable jungle , —and this , season after season , and age after age , till their accumulated growth completed the coal ...
... vast luxuriance and variety , clothing every river- side and plain , and spreading over every swamp in one im- penetrable jungle , —and this , season after season , and age after age , till their accumulated growth completed the coal ...
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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...