My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideGregg, 1969 - 916 pages |
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Page 281
... Rio Negro we found a strange and even now unaccountable poverty both in insects and birds , although there was fine virgin forest within a walk , with roads and paths and fine rocky streams . All seemed barren and lifeless as compared ...
... Rio Negro we found a strange and even now unaccountable poverty both in insects and birds , although there was fine virgin forest within a walk , with roads and paths and fine rocky streams . All seemed barren and lifeless as compared ...
Page 284
... Rio Negro in Venezuela , where I have reason to believe I shall find insects more plentiful , and at least as many birds as here . On my return from there I shall take a voyage up the great river Uaupés , and another up the Isanna , not ...
... Rio Negro in Venezuela , where I have reason to believe I shall find insects more plentiful , and at least as many birds as here . On my return from there I shall take a voyage up the great river Uaupés , and another up the Isanna , not ...
Page 314
... Rio Negro , and some notes and observations made for a map of that river and the Uaupés . With these scanty ... Rio Negro . These I had sent off before leaving Barra on my first voyage up the Rio Negro , and they had arrived home safely ...
... Rio Negro , and some notes and observations made for a map of that river and the Uaupés . With these scanty ... Rio Negro . These I had sent off before leaving Barra on my first voyage up the Rio Negro , and they had arrived home safely ...
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A. R. Wallace acquaintance afterwards Amazon animals Aru Islands beautiful beetles birds of paradise boys Brecknockshire brother butterflies called character collections colour Darwin delight England English fact father feet forest garden gave George Silk give Greenell half heard Hertford Hoddesdon hundred insects interesting island journey kind land learnt letter lived London look Malacca Malay Archipelago miles Moluccas months mountain native Natural Selection nature nearly Neath never obtained origin of species paper parish perhaps plants portion Radnorshire remark remember Rio Negro river rock Sarawak seemed seen side Singapore Sir Charles sister sketch slope soon Sorong species surveying Ternate thought tion told took town tropical Uaupés valley various village voyage walk Wallace week Welsh whole wood