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 Forms |
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BY THOMAS BELT , F.G.S. AUTHOR OF MINERAL VEINS , " " THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA , ETC. ETC. SECOND EDITION , REVISED AND CORRECTED . “ It was his faith - perhaps is mineThat life in all its forms is one , And that its secret ...
BY THOMAS BELT , F.G.S. AUTHOR OF MINERAL VEINS , " " THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA , ETC. ETC. SECOND EDITION , REVISED AND CORRECTED . “ It was his faith - perhaps is mineThat life in all its forms is one , And that its secret ...
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... during the period called by geologists the glacial epoch , may have been brought about by other causes of less intensity than the submergences and emergences of the land , even than by the displacement of whole continents , which ...
... during the period called by geologists the glacial epoch , may have been brought about by other causes of less intensity than the submergences and emergences of the land , even than by the displacement of whole continents , which ...
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1 advance southwards of the ice of a single glacial period .'Quarterly Journal of Science , ' Loess of the Rhine and the Danube , January 1877 . “ The immediate cause of his death was brain fever , following a long attack of mountain ...
1 advance southwards of the ice of a single glacial period .'Quarterly Journal of Science , ' Loess of the Rhine and the Danube , January 1877 . “ The immediate cause of his death was brain fever , following a long attack of mountain ...
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... of the Nova - Scotian Institute of Natural Science ; and the first geological paper printed in their Transactions is from his pen ; it is also in these Transactions that his paper on the Glacial Period in North America appeared .
... of the Nova - Scotian Institute of Natural Science ; and the first geological paper printed in their Transactions is from his pen ; it is also in these Transactions that his paper on the Glacial Period in North America appeared .
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The Glacial Period in North America . Vol . ii . , pt . 4 , p . 91 . Geological Magazine . On some new Trilobites from the Upper Cambrian of North Wales . Vol . iv . , p . 294 . On the Lingula Flags , or Festiniog Group of the Dolgelly ...
The Glacial Period in North America . Vol . ii . , pt . 4 , p . 91 . Geological Magazine . On some new Trilobites from the Upper Cambrian of North Wales . Vol . iv . , p . 294 . On the Lingula Flags , or Festiniog Group of the Dolgelly ...
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| Pealkiri | 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 Forms |
| Autor | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Edward Bumpus, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 nov. 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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