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... surfaces . What is it but a triple photographic lens with six curved surfaces calculated for three different media ; calcu- lated for achromaticity and spherical aberration ; provided with a variable self - adjusting aperture , and a ...
... surfaces . What is it but a triple photographic lens with six curved surfaces calculated for three different media ; calcu- lated for achromaticity and spherical aberration ; provided with a variable self - adjusting aperture , and a ...
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... surface of the earth is occupied by living beings . Notwithstanding the perpetual struggle to diffuse their seed , plants do not cover all the regions of the land ; nor is the amazing fertility of many marine animals able to carry life ...
... surface of the earth is occupied by living beings . Notwithstanding the perpetual struggle to diffuse their seed , plants do not cover all the regions of the land ; nor is the amazing fertility of many marine animals able to carry life ...
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... surface of England1 . In Mr Watson's interesting work on the Geogra- phical Distribution of British Plants , we find the Highland plants of Scotland grouped in three divi- sions according to elevation - 1000 to 2000 ft . , 2000 to 3000 ...
... surface of England1 . In Mr Watson's interesting work on the Geogra- phical Distribution of British Plants , we find the Highland plants of Scotland grouped in three divi- sions according to elevation - 1000 to 2000 ft . , 2000 to 3000 ...
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... and it is believed that at 300 fathoms life is extinct . If we consider that at and near the surface of the sea all the influences favourable to both vegetable -44 1-50 -56 -62 -68 1-320 16000 38 Mean Temperatures 16 LIFE ON THE EARTH .
... and it is believed that at 300 fathoms life is extinct . If we consider that at and near the surface of the sea all the influences favourable to both vegetable -44 1-50 -56 -62 -68 1-320 16000 38 Mean Temperatures 16 LIFE ON THE EARTH .
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... surface the forms of life should be both more varied and more abund- ant ; while , on the other hand , in the deeper and calmer water , less light , less motion , less air and less change of air , should correspond to fewer and less ...
... surface the forms of life should be both more varied and more abund- ant ; while , on the other hand , in the deeper and calmer water , less light , less motion , less air and less change of air , should correspond to fewer and less ...
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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.