 | robert scott burn - 1861 - 738 pages
...Hence," says Mr Darwin, " it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in & district, might determine, through the intervention,...the frequency of certain flowers in that district! " Doubtless, the relations of natural objects are often singularly complicated, and when we affect... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1870 - 468 pages
...Mr. Newman says, " Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more mumerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of...the frequency of certain flowers in that district I In the case of every species, many different checks, acting at different periods of life, and during... | |
 | Robert Bird - Diseases - 1870 - 262 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district \" From these instances it can be understood what an important part the lower animals and vegetables... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...flowers in that district! In the case of every species, niany. different checks, acting_ai different periods of life, and during different seasons or years,... | |
 | Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club (Bath, England) - Bath (England) - 1873 - 536 pages
...of mice is largely dependent, as everyone knows, on the number of cats. Hence it is quite eredible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!"—Origin of Spteift, pp. 73, 74. those which existed formerly, but which have utterly disappeared... | |
 | George St. Clair - Evolution - 1873 - 296 pages
...scale of nature are bound together by a web of complex relations. It would hardly be thought credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district should determine the frequency of certain flowers in that district ; yet this appears to be the case.... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...elsewhere, which 1 attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence, it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district.' Again, how beautiful are the experiments recorded by him concerning that wonderful relation of the... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1875 - 486 pages
...of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats Hence, it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." * It is not, however, only as fertilisers or as food-suppliers that insects are connected with plants.... | |
 | Oscar Schmidt - Evolution - 1875 - 356 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the numberof cats that destroy the mice. Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district.' " The closer the kindred of the competitors, the more ardent is the struggle for the existence ; for... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 362 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice. Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district.'" The closer the kindred of the competitors, the more :.ardent is the struggle for the existence ; for... | |
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Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district... 
