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... Natural History ; and those who enjoy his friendship and confidence are aware that the favorite subject of his obser- vations and experiments for some years past has been the nature and origin of the so- called species of plants and ...
... Natural History ; and those who enjoy his friendship and confidence are aware that the favorite subject of his obser- vations and experiments for some years past has been the nature and origin of the so- called species of plants and ...
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... natural history by new and original remarks . Desirous of testing the mechanical hypothesis of the formation of the ... nature , survived on the duck's feet , in damp air , from twelve to twenty hours ; and in this length of time a duck ...
... natural history by new and original remarks . Desirous of testing the mechanical hypothesis of the formation of the ... nature , survived on the duck's feet , in damp air , from twelve to twenty hours ; and in this length of time a duck ...
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... natural history in the rivers of Brazil , was of the ant ; and he has also enriched this surprised at the similarity ... nature , survived on the duck's feet , in damp air , from twelve to twenty hours ; and in this length of time a duck ...
... natural history in the rivers of Brazil , was of the ant ; and he has also enriched this surprised at the similarity ... nature , survived on the duck's feet , in damp air , from twelve to twenty hours ; and in this length of time a duck ...
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... nature of the light which they threw upon the myste- rious beginning of species , is not mentioned or further alluded to in the present work . Owing to this struggle for life , any varia- tion , however slight and from whatever cause ...
... nature of the light which they threw upon the myste- rious beginning of species , is not mentioned or further alluded to in the present work . Owing to this struggle for life , any varia- tion , however slight and from whatever cause ...
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... Nature . But Natural Selection , as we shall hereafter see , is a power incessantly ready for action , and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts , as the works of Nature are to those of Art . ” — P . 61 . The scientific ...
... Nature . But Natural Selection , as we shall hereafter see , is a power incessantly ready for action , and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts , as the works of Nature are to those of Art . ” — P . 61 . The scientific ...
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