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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... 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 theories
have ...
... 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 theories
have ...
Page xxx
PAGE world — Distribution of European land and fresh - water shells -
Discussion of the reasons why fresh - water productions have varied less than
those of the land and of the sea . . . 327 CHAPTER XIX . Iguanas and lizards —
Granada ...
PAGE world — Distribution of European land and fresh - water shells -
Discussion of the reasons why fresh - water productions have varied less than
those of the land and of the sea . . . 327 CHAPTER XIX . Iguanas and lizards —
Granada ...
Page 9
As I walked up the beach , I saw many that were not less than fifteen feet in length
. One lay motionless , and thinking it was another dead one , I was walking up to
it , and had got within three yards , when I saw the film over its eye moving ...
As I walked up the beach , I saw many that were not less than fifteen feet in length
. One lay motionless , and thinking it was another dead one , I was walking up to
it , and had got within three yards , when I saw the film over its eye moving ...
Page 13
The merchants at Greytown have entertained the project of dredging out the
channel again , but now that the river has found a nearer way to the sea by the
Colorado this would be a herculean task , and it would cost much less money to
move ...
The merchants at Greytown have entertained the project of dredging out the
channel again , but now that the river has found a nearer way to the sea by the
Colorado this would be a herculean task , and it would cost much less money to
move ...
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This view is much strengthened by the fact that the cerebral ganglia in ants are
more developed than in any other insect , and that in all the Hymenoptera , at the
head of which they stand , “ they are many times larger than in the less intelligent
...
This view is much strengthened by the fact that the cerebral ganglia in ants are
more developed than in any other insect , and that in all the Hymenoptera , at the
head of which they stand , “ they are many times larger than in the less intelligent
...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | E. Bumpus, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 nov. 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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