 | Robert Steel - Biography - 1890 - 680 pages
...in 1859, he thus referred to the former period: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...:— Charles Darwin When on board HMS " Beagle" as naturalist (he says in his introduction) 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English language - 1893 - 280 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... | |
 | George Hodges - Sermons, American - 1894 - 302 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 chapter of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...naturalist, I waa 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 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 Starr Jordan - Evolution - 1898 - 454 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 seem to throw some light on the origin of species, that mystery of mysteries,... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Evolution - 1898 - 448 pages
...much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South •l"u" s America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seem to throw some light on the origin of species, that mystery of mysteries,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 484 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... | |
 | James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge - Zoology - 1903 - 550 pages
...world, and "was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." After his return home, twenty additional years were spent in collecting facts, making further observations... | |
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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. 
