 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy ' the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district ! ' (P. 73.) This is very characteristic of the ingenious turn of thought of our author ; the more... | |
 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." The more fundamental accompanying uniformities should, however, receive our first attention. An ordinary... | |
 | Agriculture - 1866 - 546 pages
...attribute to the number of cats, which destroy the mice." "Hence," says Mr. Darwin, "it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers, in a district, might deI termine, through their intervention, first of mice, nnd then of bees, the frequency of certain... | |
 | 1860 - 594 pages
...plant of heartsease which is to fertilize another of the same plant : " Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district \" And thus a " struggle for existence" is going on among all creatures, which results in a balance... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." One would almost think, in reading Mr. Darwin's string of sequences, that the ingenious author of The... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." i One \vould almost think, in reading Mr. Darwin's string of sequences, that the ingenious author of... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of the feline animal in large numbers in a district might...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!" — pp. 73-74. By the way, Mr. Darwin takes the opportunity of handling this portion of his subject... | |
 | American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of n feline animal in large numbers in a district might...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!'' — P. 73. This is very characteristic of the ingenious turn of thought of our author ; the more sober,... | |
 | William Samuel Symonds - Animals - 1861 - 240 pages
...destroyed. The number of mice is largely dependent upon the number of cats; and " hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." The common Beaver,* well known by the wonderful instinct which it displays, is a rodent. Beavers formerly... | |
 | Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...of eat» which destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of feline animal sin large numbers in a district might determine, through...the frequency of certain flowers in that district. DARWIN. Rees in South Africa. Livingstone says : Bee-culture is prosecuted in Londa, aud hivea are... | |
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Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district... 
