 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...perusing the first sentence in the book. ' ' When on board HMS " Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by some of our greatest philosophers.' (P. 1.) What is there, we asked ourselves, as we closed the volume... | |
 | American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...perusing the first sentence in the book. " When on board II. MS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of thatcontincnt. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...essaying to resolve. His attention was first directed to the inquiry by some facts which struck him in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America,...present to the past inhabitants of that continent, during that voyage on board HMS Beagle of which he has given us so admirable a Journal. These facts... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...essaying to resolve. His attention was first directed to the inquiry by some facts which struck him in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America,...present to the past inhabitants of that continent, during that voyage on board IT.MS Beagle of which he has given us so admirable a Journal. These facts... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1866 - 908 pages
...in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological I'elations of the present to 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... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of Species ; that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of Species ; that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1912 - 690 pages
...he had written and printed the following : — "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist. I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent." s Seeing that these words form the first sentence of the introduction to the " Origin... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 770 pages
...opening sentence of the " Origin of Species " : — "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants ofthat continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw... | |
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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 inhabitants of that continent. 
