| John Hubert Greusel - Civilization - 1923 - 344 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 light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of... | |
| Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...Species begins : OJ j O " When on board HMS fceagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain fafts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relation of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These fafts seemed to me to throw... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 pages
...DARWIN, MA, FRs, &c. (London: 1859) INTRODUCTION. When on board HMS "Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...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... | |
| Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...so claimed it. The Origin of Species begins : " When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relation of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw... | |
| George Milton Janes - Economics - 1925 - 188 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 present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1926 - 694 pages
...Darwin's experiences in South America. It reads : " When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...me to throw some light on the origin of species." This statement expresses in a few words the thesis which, as an ornithologist and zoogeographer, I... | |
| Electronic journals - 1926 - 730 pages
...Darwin's experiences in South America. It reads : " When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...me to throw some light on the origin of species." This statement expresses in a few words the thesis which, as an ornithologist and zoogeographer, I... | |
| Electronic journals - 1926 - 666 pages
...Darwin's experiences in South America. It reads : " When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...me to throw some light on the origin of species." This statement expresses in a few words the thesis which, as an ornithologist and zoogeographer, I... | |
| United States - 1921 - 498 pages
...certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America These facts .... seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it had been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837,... | |
| Hardy Hoover - Science - 1980 - 228 pages
...as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distrihution of organic heings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhahitants of that continent. These facts, as will he seen in the later chapters of this volume, seemed... | |
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