 | Sir Patrick Geddes - Botany - 1893 - 226 pages
...Species, chap. iii. Lond. 1859. 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. This may seem a mere matter for naturalists, yet in this connection we touch on practical politics.... | |
 | Morgan George Watkins - Biology - 1896 - 280 pages
...prefence of a feline animal in large numbers in a diftrict might determine, through the intervention firft of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that diftrict."1 " There remains to be told but one more cat ftory of importance. It claims to be of recent... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - Debates and debating - 1898 - 440 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 term, Scientific Induction, is applied only to inferences amounting to a general law, general... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 908 pages
...number of cats which destroy the mice. Hence it is quite credible that the presence of feline animals in large numbers in a district might determine, through...the frequency of certain flowers in that district.' " A calculation has been lately made that at the normal rate of increase from a pair of English sparrows,... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Evolution - 1898 - 454 pages
...number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of feline animals in large numbers in a district might determine, through...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." Huxley carries this calculation still further by showing that the number of cats is dependent on the... | |
 | Theosophy - 1900 - 1124 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.' " Animals do not possess the power of adaptability like man. As a rule the latter cannot alter his... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 260 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. " When we look at the plants and bushes clothing an entangled bank, we are tempted to attribute their... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...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...determine, through the intervention first of mice an<l then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in thtt district. (Origin f/S/vfits, pp 57. 5!... | |
 | Tuley Francis Huntington - English language - 1907 - 410 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! — CHARLES DARWIN, Origin of Species. HELPS TO STUDY : Do not bother about the technical words in... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg - Evolution - 1907 - 520 pages
...number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of feline animals in large numbers in a district might determine, through...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." Huxley carries this calculation still further by showing that the number of cats depends on the number... | |
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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... 
