Natural History: Its Rise and Progress in Britain as Developed in the Life and Labours of Leading NaturalistsW. & R. Chambers, 1886 - 312 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 17
Сторінка 22
... a Latin version ; together with Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and Solomon's Song in Greek hexameters . This copy is interesting as bearing upon its Derham's words , ' Mr Ray so closely applied himself 22 NATURAL HISTORY .
... a Latin version ; together with Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and Solomon's Song in Greek hexameters . This copy is interesting as bearing upon its Derham's words , ' Mr Ray so closely applied himself 22 NATURAL HISTORY .
Сторінка 24
... interesting as giving us a glimpse of the aspect of many well - known places about the middle of the seventeenth century ; such observations being indiscriminately mingled with notes upon the plants , animals , 24 NATURAL HISTORY .
... interesting as giving us a glimpse of the aspect of many well - known places about the middle of the seventeenth century ; such observations being indiscriminately mingled with notes upon the plants , animals , 24 NATURAL HISTORY .
Сторінка 30
... interesting journal abounds in information of all kinds , and upon all sorts of subjects . Observations upon the towns , public buildings , political and social institu- tions , habits of the people , and natural scenery , are mingled ...
... interesting journal abounds in information of all kinds , and upon all sorts of subjects . Observations upon the towns , public buildings , political and social institu- tions , habits of the people , and natural scenery , are mingled ...
Сторінка 44
... interesting to note , by way of marking the progress of natural history , that while Aristotle is supposed to have been acquainted with about one hundred and fifteen species of fishes , Ray estimates the total number known to him at ...
... interesting to note , by way of marking the progress of natural history , that while Aristotle is supposed to have been acquainted with about one hundred and fifteen species of fishes , Ray estimates the total number known to him at ...
Сторінка 66
... interesting collections . Most of the observations which he made were subse- quently given to the world in two extensive treatises- namely , the ' Catalogue of Jamaica Plants ' ( 1696 ) , and the Natural History of Jamaica ; ' the ...
... interesting collections . Most of the observations which he made were subse- quently given to the world in two extensive treatises- namely , the ' Catalogue of Jamaica Plants ' ( 1696 ) , and the Natural History of Jamaica ; ' the ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Natural History: Its Rise and Progress in Britain as Developed in the Life ... Henry Alleyne Nicholson Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
acquaintance animal kingdom animals animals and plants appeared Arctic Aristotle artificial become birds botany Britain century changes characters Charles Darwin classification collection comparative anatomy Cuvier domestic animals Echinoderms edition Erasmus Darwin evolution existence extinct fact famous fish-hawk fishes flora Forbes Forbes's forms fossil Francis Willughby genus Geological Gilbert White giraffe groups habits hand individuals insects Invertebrate Invertebrate animals investigation John Ray knowledge Lamarck later Linnæus Linnean living Mammals marsupial memoirs modern modification Mollusca museum natural history natural selection naturalists observations organisation organs origin of species paleontology particular peculiar Pennant period philosophical possessed present day principle produced published quadrupeds Ray's recognised regards regions remarks reptiles scientific species of animals structure Swainson theory of natural tion treatise variation Vertebrate volumes well-known whole wholly wild Willughby writings zoologist zoology Zoophytes
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 282 - I should premise that I use this term [Struggle for Existence] in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
Сторінка 229 - Fifthly, from their first rudiment or primordium to the termination of their lives, all animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritations or of associations; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.
Сторінка 114 - When one reflects on the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity, on a reptile that appears to relish it so little as to squander more than two thirds of its existence in a joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers.
Сторінка 116 - A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the ground as well as on the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand.
Сторінка 133 - The height at which he thus elegantly glides is various, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty and two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while calmly reconnoitring the face of the deep below. Suddenly he is seen to check his course, as if struck by a particular object, which he seems to survey for a few moments with such steadiness that he appears fixed in air, flapping his wings. This object, however, he abandons, or rather the fish he had in his eye has disappeared and he is seen...
Сторінка 135 - And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em. Yo ho, my hearts ! let 's seek the deep, Ply every oar, and cheerily wish her, While the slow bending net we sweep, "God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher...
Сторінка 231 - All which seem to have been gradually produced during many generations by the perpetual endeavour of the creatures to supply the want of food, and to have been delivered to their posterity with constant improvement of them for the purposes required.
Сторінка 273 - The whole train of animated beings, from the simplest and oldest up to the highest and most recent, are, then, to be regarded as a series of advances of the principle of development, which have depended upon external physical circumstances, to which the resulting animals are appropriate.
Сторінка 300 - The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown. No one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, or in different species, is sometimes inherited and sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather or grandmother or more remote ancestor...
Сторінка 231 - The contrivances for the purposes of security extend even to vegetables, as is seen in the wonderful and various means of their concealing or defending their honey from insects and their seeds from birds. On the other hand, swiftness of wing has been acquired by hawks and swallows to pursue their prey ; and a proboscis of admirable structure has been acquired by the bee, the moth, and the humming bird for the purpose of plundering the nectaries of flowers. All which seem to have been formed by the...