| Charles Darwin - 1875 - Страниц: 504
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in tho distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of th.it continent. These facts, as will be seen in tho latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - Страниц: 656
...readers. Mr. Romanes will not gainsay this. Here is the opening sentence of the " Origin of Species " :— "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
| Henry Calderwood - 1881 - Страниц: 366
...history of whole orders. Mr. Darwin then gives the following biographical references at the outset,—" When on board HMS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I was...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - Страниц: 634
...Beagle ' he was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...past inhabitants of that continent. 'These facts,' he says, 'seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it... | |
| 1882 - Страниц: 1216
...American coast, particularly by " certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent" The " Origin of Species" was issued in November, 1859, an(^ was designed as an abstract of a more extended... | |
| Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - Страниц: 900
...asked him how ho came to make his great discoveries, he replied, " By always thinking about them." " South America, and in the Geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent, seemed to " throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of " mysteries, as it has been... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1883 - Страниц: 494
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1883 - Страниц: 494
...1859, and the second edition on January 7th, I860. ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board nMS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
| Edward Woodall - 1884 - Страниц: 100
...America, after being pondered for many years, led to the publication of the Origin of Sptcies in 1859. When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
| 1882 - Страниц: 896
...asked him how he came to make his great discoveries, he replied, " By always thinking about them." " South America, and in the Geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent, seemed to" throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of "mysteries, as it has been... | |
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