| Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 406
...was published on November 24th, 1859, and the second edition on January 7th, 1860. ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS ' Beagle,' as naturalist,...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... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 408
...naturalist, I waa 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... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - Страниц: 1056
...strain of the prelude with which the "Origin" commences are these words: "When on board HMS Reagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America." But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who... | |
| David Starr Jordan - 1898 - Страниц: 454
...preface to the Origin of Species, published in 1859, he outlined his plan of work in the following words: "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... | |
| David Starr Jordan - 1898 - Страниц: 448
...much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South •l"u" s America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seem to throw some light on the origin of species, that mystery of mysteries,... | |
| 1901 - Страниц: 484
...anything. But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins: — "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... | |
| 1901 - Страниц: 486
...anything. But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins:— "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... | |
| James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge - 1903 - Страниц: 550
...world, and "was much struck with 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." After his return home, twenty additional years were spent in collecting facts, making further observations... | |
| Henry Duff Traill - 1904 - Страниц: 1038
...mentioned at the beginning of the " Origin." 1865) " When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist," he says, " I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations ot the present to the past... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 310
...quoted, from the Autobiography and to what is said in the Introduction to the Origin, Ed. i, viz. " When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much...to the past inhabitants of that continent." These words, occurring where they do, can only mean one thing, — namely that the facts suggested an evolutionary... | |
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