Transactions and Proceedings, Том 4Society at the Perthshire Natural History Museum., 1908 |
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... held that external conditions acting upon the parents might lead to variability in the offspring , but he did not conclude that bodily characters , acquired by the parents as a result of such conditions , were those which manifested ...
... held that external conditions acting upon the parents might lead to variability in the offspring , but he did not conclude that bodily characters , acquired by the parents as a result of such conditions , were those which manifested ...
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... held behind it had a beautiful effect . In another place we saw an actual glacier , a curved slope of thick ice , without any ridges to break its smooth surface , and at one point we were able to go below the glacier as under a bridge ...
... held behind it had a beautiful effect . In another place we saw an actual glacier , a curved slope of thick ice , without any ridges to break its smooth surface , and at one point we were able to go below the glacier as under a bridge ...
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... held to be a weather prophet . The upper part of the valley is divided by a hill called the Mittelgrad into two glens , in which run the streams called the Great and the Little Kohlbach . " The latter is at a high elevation , and is ...
... held to be a weather prophet . The upper part of the valley is divided by a hill called the Mittelgrad into two glens , in which run the streams called the Great and the Little Kohlbach . " The latter is at a high elevation , and is ...
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... held up and viewed in the bright light of a gas jet . As has already been observed , chalcedony , when pure , is water- clear like ice , and of silver grey colour , which deepens into a slate colour in thick masses ; if admixed with ...
... held up and viewed in the bright light of a gas jet . As has already been observed , chalcedony , when pure , is water- clear like ice , and of silver grey colour , which deepens into a slate colour in thick masses ; if admixed with ...
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... held good also in the Kainozoic or Tertiary Age , while the Red Crag formations were being laid down in Pliocene times . The so - called Crag formations begin with the White or Coralline Crag , with an abundant molluscan fauna , the ...
... held good also in the Kainozoic or Tertiary Age , while the Red Crag formations were being laid down in Pliocene times . The so - called Crag formations begin with the White or Coralline Crag , with an abundant molluscan fauna , the ...
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Сторінка xxv - O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Сторінка 49 - 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 external conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Сторінка 160 - Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Сторінка xv - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Сторінка 233 - He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Сторінка 124 - Is the criminal, and in what respects is he, a normal or an abnormal man? And if he is, or when he is abnormal, whence is the abnormality derived? Is it congenital or contracted, capable or incapable of rectification?" This is all; and yet it is sufficient to enable the student of crime to arrive at positive conclusions concerning the measures which society can take in order to defend itself against crime; whilst he can draw other conclusions from criminal statistics. As for the principal data hitherto...
Сторінка 54 - Huxley, in the opinion of most competent judges, has conclusively shewn that in every visible character man differs less from the higher apes, than these do from the lower members of the same order of Primates.
Сторінка 49 - On the whole, we may conclude that habit, or use and disuse, have, in some cases, played a considerable part in the modification of the constitution and structure; but that the effects have often been largely combined with, and sometimes overmastered by, the natural selection of innate variations.
Сторінка 119 - Turbinella, are held in special veneration in China, where great prices are given for them. They are kept in the pagodas by the priests, and are not only employed by them on certain special occasions as the sacred vessels from which they administer medicine to the sick ; but it is in one of those sinistrorsal Turbinellce that the consecrated oil is kept, with which the Emperor is anointed at his coronation.
Сторінка xlvi - And reached that torrent's sounding shore* Which, daughter of three mighty lakes, From Vennachar in silver breaks, Sweeps through the plain, and ceaseless mines On Bochastle the mouldering lines, Where Rome, the Empress of the world, Of yore her eagle wings unfurled.