| Grant Allen - 1885 - Страниц: 238
...Species.' In the Introduction to that immortal work Darwin wrote, some twenty-seven years later, ' 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... | |
| David Starr Jordan - 1887 - Страниц: 296
...anxious for sudden greatness, who wishes to gather his strawberries before they are ripe. He says : — "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... | |
| Robert Steel - 1890 - Страниц: 680
...of Species." In the work on that subject, published in 1859, he thus referred to the former period: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - Страниц: 608
...ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins : — "When on hoard 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... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1892 - Страниц: 428
...this work :— Charles Darwin When on board HMS " Beagle" as naturalist (he says in his introduction) I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution...seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - Страниц: 280
...investigator ventured to propound. Note what Darwin says in the introduction to his Origin of Species: 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... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - Страниц: 284
...propound. Note what Darwin says in the introduction to his Origin of Species : When on board II. MS " 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... | |
| George Hodges - 1894 - Страниц: 302
...sermon. Darwin's epoch-making book, the " Origin of Species," begins with this significant paragraph: "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... | |
| Willis Linn Jepson - 1895 - Страниц: 228
...can seize it The first strain of the prelude with which the ' Origin ' commences are these 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.' But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1895 - Страниц: 1164
...can seize it. The first strain of the prelude with -which the ' Origin ' commences are these words: ' When on board HMS " Beagle " as naturalist, I was...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... | |
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