My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 193
... species and which were wholly foreign , nor was any indication given of their general distribution or whether they comprised numerous or few genera or species . The inclusion of all the natural orders and the excellent woodcuts ...
... species and which were wholly foreign , nor was any indication given of their general distribution or whether they comprised numerous or few genera or species . The inclusion of all the natural orders and the excellent woodcuts ...
Page 193
... species and which were wholly foreign , nor was any indication given of their general distribution or whether they comprised numerous or few genera or species . The inclusion of all the natural orders and the excellent woodcuts ...
... species and which were wholly foreign , nor was any indication given of their general distribution or whether they comprised numerous or few genera or species . The inclusion of all the natural orders and the excellent woodcuts ...
Page 196
... species with greater ease . The Crucifers , the Pea tribe , the Umbelliferæ , the Compositæ , and the Labiates offered great difficulties , and it was only after repeated efforts that I was able to name with certainty a few of the species ...
... species with greater ease . The Crucifers , the Pea tribe , the Umbelliferæ , the Compositæ , and the Labiates offered great difficulties , and it was only after repeated efforts that I was able to name with certainty a few of the species ...
Page 195
... species , and which , I believe , had its share in producing that longing for the tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the Amazon . But I soon found that by merely identifying the plants I found in ...
... species , and which , I believe , had its share in producing that longing for the tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the Amazon . But I soon found that by merely identifying the plants I found in ...
Page 200
... species before used , and by classifying all known plants by means of a few well - marked and easily observed characters . I then showed how and why this classification was only occasionally , and as it were accidentally , a natural one ...
... species before used , and by classifying all known plants by means of a few well - marked and easily observed characters . I then showed how and why this classification was only occasionally , and as it were accidentally , a natural one ...
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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 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 stayed surveying Ternate thought tion told took town tropical Uaupés valley various village voyage walk Wallace week Welsh whole wood