The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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Page vii
... natural history in Nicaragua and elsewhere , were the fruit of his leisure . The book is direct and vivid in style , and is full of description and suggestive discussions . With reference to it , my father wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker ...
... natural history in Nicaragua and elsewhere , were the fruit of his leisure . The book is direct and vivid in style , and is full of description and suggestive discussions . With reference to it , my father wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker ...
Page viii
... natural phenomena . Unorthodox as they were when first promul- gated , yet , silently and solidly , they commended themselves to those who studied the facts and the inferences he drew from them . Amid real hard work in Australia , he ...
... natural phenomena . Unorthodox as they were when first promul- gated , yet , silently and solidly , they commended themselves to those who studied the facts and the inferences he drew from them . Amid real hard work in Australia , he ...
Page xii
... Natural History Transactions of North- umberland , Durham , and Newcastle - on - Tyne , " vol . vii . , 1879 , the following short memoir , by Mr. Joseph Wright , giving some further details of Mr. Belt's career , appears " Died at ...
... Natural History Transactions of North- umberland , Durham , and Newcastle - on - Tyne , " vol . vii . , 1879 , the following short memoir , by Mr. Joseph Wright , giving some further details of Mr. Belt's career , appears " Died at ...
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... Natural Science ; and the first geological paper printed in their Transactions is from pen ; it is also in these Transactions that his paper on the Glacial Period in North America appeared . his " After his return from Nova Scotia , he ...
... Natural Science ; and the first geological paper printed in their Transactions is from pen ; it is also in these Transactions that his paper on the Glacial Period in North America appeared . his " After his return from Nova Scotia , he ...
Page xv
... before the world the results of his observations clearly and temperately . Whatever he undertook he did it well , and in the departments of natural science to which he applied himself his name stands as an authority , PREFACE . XV.
... before the world the results of his observations clearly and temperately . Whatever he undertook he did it well , and in the departments of natural science to which he applied himself his name stands as an authority , PREFACE . XV.
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