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... British Paleontology . First Descriptions of Fossils from the Strata of Great Britain . By FREDERICK MCCOY , F.G.S. Professor of the Natural Sciences in the University of Melbourne . 8vo , cloth , 98 . IV . The Five Gateways of ...
... British Paleontology . First Descriptions of Fossils from the Strata of Great Britain . By FREDERICK MCCOY , F.G.S. Professor of the Natural Sciences in the University of Melbourne . 8vo , cloth , 98 . IV . The Five Gateways of ...
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... British Plants , we find the Highland plants of Scotland grouped in three divi- sions according to elevation - 1000 to 2000 ft . , 2000 to 3000 ft . and 3000 to 4000 ft . above the sea . The num- bers are : - 273 species - 183 species ...
... British Plants , we find the Highland plants of Scotland grouped in three divi- sions according to elevation - 1000 to 2000 ft . , 2000 to 3000 ft . and 3000 to 4000 ft . above the sea . The num- bers are : - 273 species - 183 species ...
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... less than 222 species of British plants extend to India , and oblige us to look to a common 1 E. Forbes , in Memoirs of Geological Survey , Vol . 1 . origin for the species found in both these regions , C 2 LIFE ON THE EARTH . 19.
... less than 222 species of British plants extend to India , and oblige us to look to a common 1 E. Forbes , in Memoirs of Geological Survey , Vol . 1 . origin for the species found in both these regions , C 2 LIFE ON THE EARTH . 19.
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... apparatus embodying so perfectly the abstract 1 Hodgkinson and Fairbairn , in Reports of the British Asso- ciation . Barlow , On Strength of Materials . truths of mechanical science , nor could the human mind 38 LIFE ON THE EARTH .
... apparatus embodying so perfectly the abstract 1 Hodgkinson and Fairbairn , in Reports of the British Asso- ciation . Barlow , On Strength of Materials . truths of mechanical science , nor could the human mind 38 LIFE ON THE EARTH .
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... British valleys left by the rivers in some earlier period , we find the canoe of the primitive inhabitant , hollowed by fire and rude stone chisels from the trunk of the native oak . In Caverns near Swansea , and near Narbonne ...
... British valleys left by the rivers in some earlier period , we find the canoe of the primitive inhabitant , hollowed by fire and rude stone chisels from the trunk of the native oak . In Caverns near Swansea , and near Narbonne ...
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Page 202 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
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Page 203 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
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Page 202 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 201 - I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification.
Page 201 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 203 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Page 186 - The intermixture of distinct species is guarded against by the aversion of the individuals composing them to sexual union, or by the sterility of the mule offspring. It does not appear that true hybrid races have ever been perpetuated for several generations, even by the assistance of man; for the cases usually cited relate to the crossing of mules with individuals of pure species, and not to the intermixture of hybrid with hybrid.