 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Mathematics - 1837 - 542 pages
...which I imagined to have derived its extraordinary powers in some degree from the highly cultivated intellect of its male parent. I have witnessed, within...generations, been employed in setting Partridges for the flight net only, and of whose exploits I had heard many very extraordinary accounts. I employed it... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Mathematics - 1837 - 544 pages
...which I imagined to have derived its extraordinary powers in some degree from the highly cultivated intellect of its male parent. I have witnessed, within...generations, been employed in setting Partridges for the flight net only, and of whose exploits I had heard many very extraordinary accounts. I employed it... | |
 | Phrenology - 1838 - 478 pages
...The next case we quote is more like an example of a change in disposition transmitted by descent. " I have witnessed, within the period above mentioned,...I conceive, by increased hereditary fear of man." We should explain this case, rather by supposing an increased development of the organs of Cautiousness... | |
 | 1838 - 908 pages
...The next case we quote is more like an example of a change in disposition transmitted by descent. " I have witnessed, within the period above mentioned,...I conceive, by increased hereditary fear of man." We should explain this case, rather by supposing an increased development of the organs of Cautiousness... | |
 | Thomson Jay Hudson - Evolution - 1899 - 394 pages
...1 Romanes then quotes from a paper on " Hereditary Instinct " by Andrew Knight, as follows : — " I have witnessed, within the period above mentioned,...I conceive, by increased hereditary fear of man." a It has also been noted by sportsmen that game animals keep pace with the increased range and effectiveness... | |
 | Albert B. Olston - Christian Science - 1902 - 440 pages
...part of that time, when it had recently arrived in the autumn it was very tame ; it usually chucked when disturbed, and took only a very short flight....and takes a comparatively long flight, excited, I conceived, by increased hereditary fear of man. . . . The development of firearms, together with the... | |
 | Sports - 1902 - 966 pages
...part of that time, when it had recently arrived in the autumn, it was very tame; it usually clucked when disturbed, and took only a very short flight....silence and takes a comparatively long flight, excited, T conceive, by increased hereditary fear of man." Those who have studied wild animals in any degree... | |
 | Outdoor recreation - 1902 - 804 pages
...part of that time, when it had recently arrived in the autumn, it was very tame; it usually clucked when disturbed, and took only a very short flight....silence and takes a comparatively long flight, excited, T conceive, by increased hereditary fear of man." Those who have studied wild animals in any degree... | |
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I imagined to have derived its extraordinary powers in some degree from the highly cultivated intellect of its male parent. I have witnessed, within the period above mentioned, of nearly sixty years, a very great change in the habits of the Woodcock.... 