 | Church congress - 1892 - Страниц: 682
...published book, where he describes, to use his own words, "those lowly-organized creatures concerning whom it may be doubted whether there are many other animals...played so important a part in the history of the world" — without feeling how, animated by a love of truth, he was content patiently to accumulate facts,... | |
 | James Clarke Welling - 1894 - Страниц: 40
...out in a scientific way the place which earthworms have in the economy of nature when he says that " it may be doubted whether there are many other animals...the world as have these lowly organized creatures."* Even protoplasm, at the point where we examine it with our microscopes, is found to possess certain... | |
 | James Richard Cocke - 1894 - Страниц: 396
...This part of my subject will be a very difficult one for the lay reader to grasp, and hallucinations have played so important a part in the history of the world that it seems to me that the general public should have a better understanding of them. They do not... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 844
...become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation ; and consequently sterile.' — Gilbert White, 1777. 'It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly-organised creatures.' — Darwin, 1881. See Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1897 - Страниц: 306
...inventions ; but, long before he existed, the land was, in fact, regularly ploughed by earth worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...the world as have these lowly organized creatures." BIRDS : Stray robins and bluebirds remain with us in Philadelphia all winter. In the latter part of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1897 - Страниц: 346
...before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are...important , /a part in the history of the world, as have V ' these lowly organised creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organised, namely... | |
 | Richard Lydekker, William Forsell Kirby, Bernard Barham Woodward, Randolph Kirkpatrick, Reginald Innes Pocock, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Walter Garstang, Francis Arthur Bather, Henry Meyners Bernard - 1897 - Страниц: 800
...compared their action to that of a plough, and adds that it is doubtful whether many other animals have played so important a part in the history of the world. Earth-worms are found in all parts of the world in spots suitable for their existence, and in some... | |
 | William Miller - 1901 - Страниц: 248
...a considerable extent of country which have encouraged the erection of the independent strongholds which have played so important a part in the history of the Carnatic and the Deccan, in the history of the neighbouring Lebanon, and in that of the maritime plain... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - Страниц: 238
...before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are...the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. THE END. Library on or before the last date stamped below. — • A fine of five cents a day is incurred... | |
 | Clifton Fremont Hodge - 1903 - Страниц: 538
...before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are...the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. Earthworms burrow into the soil to a depth of from three to eight feet, making channels for water,... | |
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It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. 
