| English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...first directed to the inquiry by some facts which struck him in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...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
...first directed to the inquiry by some facts which struck him in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological 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... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...Beagle ' as naturalist, I was nrach struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...Beagle ' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has... | |
| England - 1866 - 908 pages
...start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins:— " "When on board II.MS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution...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... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...the Origin of Species by the following words : — ' When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution...the past 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... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...the Origin of Species by the following words : — ' When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution...the past 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... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1912 - 690 pages
...Beagle as naturalist. I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological 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... | |
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