The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of ScienceDawson Bros., 1872 |
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... existence among those which compete for food and endeavour to escape death . " 3. Survival of the fittest ; meaning that those which die are least fitted to maintain their existence . " 4. Hereditary transmission of a general likeness ...
... existence among those which compete for food and endeavour to escape death . " 3. Survival of the fittest ; meaning that those which die are least fitted to maintain their existence . " 4. Hereditary transmission of a general likeness ...
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... existence of difficulties so serious that he can hardly reflect on them without being staggered " ( p . 167 ) ; and that " scarcely a single point is discussed on which facts cannot be adduced often apparently leading to conclusions ...
... existence of difficulties so serious that he can hardly reflect on them without being staggered " ( p . 167 ) ; and that " scarcely a single point is discussed on which facts cannot be adduced often apparently leading to conclusions ...
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... existence of closely similar structures of diverse origin . " " Certain fossil transitional forms are absent which might have been expected to be present ; and some facts of geographical dis- tribution supplement other difficulties ...
... existence of closely similar structures of diverse origin . " " Certain fossil transitional forms are absent which might have been expected to be present ; and some facts of geographical dis- tribution supplement other difficulties ...
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... existence of Boulder - clays of different ages , superimposed on one another . It may be observed , however , that in so far as the Boulder - clay is a marine deposit , that which occurs at lower levels is in all probability newer than ...
... existence of Boulder - clays of different ages , superimposed on one another . It may be observed , however , that in so far as the Boulder - clay is a marine deposit , that which occurs at lower levels is in all probability newer than ...
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... existence of marine animals , before the sand was deposited . It is usually , indeed , in this position that the greater part of the shells of our Post - plio- cene beds occur ; the Saxicava sand being generally somewhat barren , or ...
... existence of marine animals , before the sand was deposited . It is usually , indeed , in this position that the greater part of the shells of our Post - plio- cene beds occur ; the Saxicava sand being generally somewhat barren , or ...
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Стр. 143 - 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. 151 - 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. 151 - Abiogenesis ever has taken place in the past or ever will take place in the future. With organic chemistry, molecular physics, and physiology yet in their infancy, and every day making prodigious strides, I think it would be the height of presumption for any man to say that the conditions under which matter assumes the properties we call " vital " may not, some day, be artificially brought together.
Стр. 143 - 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, 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. 141 - organic cells," or "protoplasm." But science brings a vast mass of inductive evidence against this hypothesis of spontaneous generation, as you have heard from my predecessor in the Presidential chair. Careful enough scrutiny has, in every case up to the present day, discovered life as antecedent to life. Dead matter cannot become living without coming under the influence of matter previously alive. This seems to me as sure a teaching of science as the law of gravitation.
Стр. 429 - Logan attempted a new explanation of the stratigraphy of the region; declaring at the same time that, "from the physical structure alone, no person would suspect the break which must exist in the neighborhood of Quebec ; and without the evidence of the fossils every one would be authorized to deny it." (Ibid., page 218.) The typical Potsdam sandstone of the New York system, as seen in the Ottawa basin in northern New York and the adjacent parts of Canada, affords but a very meagre fauna, including...
Стр. 429 - River group, or forming part of a series of strata which he is inclined to rank as a distinct group above the Hudson River proper. -It would be quite superfluous for me to add one word in support of the opinion of the most able stratigraphical geologist of the American continent" Paleontology and stratigraphy here came into conflict, and it was not till in 1860, when Mr.
Стр. 133 - ... with which a star approaches to or recedes from the earth. The principle is, first to identify, if possible, one or more of the lines in the spectrum of the star, with a line or lines in the spectrum of sodium, or some other terrestrial substance, and then (by observing the star and the artificial light simultaneously by the same spectroscope) to find the difference, if any, between their refrangibilities. From this difference of refrangibility the ratio of the periods of the two lights is calculated,...
Стр. 128 - The discovery by Fraunhofer of a coincidence between his double dark line D of the solar spectrum and a double bright line which he observed in the spectra of ordinary artificial flames. (2) A very rigorous experimental test of this coincidence by Prof.