The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... similar agencies been at work : here preserving the broken twig and the fallen forest , there the coral - reef and the littoral shell - bed , and anon the remains of animals that were borne by rivers from the land , or drifted by the ...
... similar agencies been at work : here preserving the broken twig and the fallen forest , there the coral - reef and the littoral shell - bed , and anon the remains of animals that were borne by rivers from the land , or drifted by the ...
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... similar cells forming alike the organs of growth and the organs of re- production . On the other hand , in the Flowering ( Phane- rogams or Spermocarps ) the organs of reproduction are apparent the seed being enclosed in an embryo in ...
... similar cells forming alike the organs of growth and the organs of re- production . On the other hand , in the Flowering ( Phane- rogams or Spermocarps ) the organs of reproduction are apparent the seed being enclosed in an embryo in ...
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... similar orders . None of the other families of plants have the true woody structure , except the conifera or firs , which seem to hold an intermediate place between monocoty- ledons and dicotyledons ; but the wood of these is readily ...
... similar orders . None of the other families of plants have the true woody structure , except the conifera or firs , which seem to hold an intermediate place between monocoty- ledons and dicotyledons ; but the wood of these is readily ...
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... similar functions are at once discharged by the gavial of the Ganges , the crocodile of the Nile , and the alligator of the Amazon . Over and above these physical relationships there is also that which has reference to the size of the ...
... similar functions are at once discharged by the gavial of the Ganges , the crocodile of the Nile , and the alligator of the Amazon . Over and above these physical relationships there is also that which has reference to the size of the ...
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... similar modifications afford to the palaeontologist an evidence of functions performed in bygone ages , and enable him , not only to reconstruct forms of harmonious , organs , but to assign to these organs the part they had to play in ...
... similar modifications afford to the palaeontologist an evidence of functions performed in bygone ages , and enable him , not only to reconstruct forms of harmonious , organs , but to assign to these organs the part they had to play in ...
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Сторінка 211 - 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.
Сторінка 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Сторінка 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Сторінка 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...