 | Timberlake Wertenbaker - Drama - 1999 - 86 pages
...America — FITZROY. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind — DARWIN, —and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. FITZROY. — and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind — DARWIN. These... | |
 | James Munves - Fiction - 1999 - 216 pages
...antipodes 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 . . . These facts . . . seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries.... | |
 | Robert W. Allard - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 274 pages
...discoveries that had made modern geology and paleontology possible. He wrote that these facts "seemed to throw some light on the origin of species . . . that mystery of mysteries ... it occurred to me that it might be useful to accumulate and reflect on all sorts of facts that... | |
 | Gordon Miller - Nature - 2000 - 266 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... | |
 | Bruce S. Lieberman - Science - 2000 - 230 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhebitants of that continent. These facts. as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume,... | |
 | Bagehot - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 300 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... | |
 | David Simpson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...Darwin's introduction to The Origin of Species: "When on board HMS Becyle, 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." 33 The information passed on here is much the same as it would be in a sentence... | |
 | Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...Index ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one ot our greatest philosophers.1 On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might... | |
 | Jorge V. Crisci, Liliana Katinas, Paula Posadas - Nature - 2003 - 278 pages
...paragraph of The Origin of the Species (1859): "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." Today, as in Darwin's time, the distribution of living beings offers an inexhaustible source of light... | |
 | Kathryn Coe - Art - 2003 - 236 pages
...introduction to On the Origin of Species, "I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of inhabitants of South America, and in the geological...seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries" (1859). The mystery of mysteries that would lead Darwin to his... | |
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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. 
