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87 - 92 ; On the Formation and Preservation of Lakes by Ice Action , Geol . Soc .
Quart . Journ . , vol . 20 , 1864 , pp . 463 - 465 , Phil . Mag . , vol . 28 , 1864 , p .
323 , Nova Scotian Inst . Nat . Sci . , vol . 2 , pt . 3 , 1867 , p . 70 ; The Glacial
Period ...
87 - 92 ; On the Formation and Preservation of Lakes by Ice Action , Geol . Soc .
Quart . Journ . , vol . 20 , 1864 , pp . 463 - 465 , Phil . Mag . , vol . 28 , 1864 , p .
323 , Nova Scotian Inst . Nat . Sci . , vol . 2 , pt . 3 , 1867 , p . 70 ; The Glacial
Period ...
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No zoologist of note believes that there has been a submergence of the land
lying between the Pacific and the Atlantic since the pliocene period , and
icebergs could not have floated without such submergence , so that , in the cases
I have ...
No zoologist of note believes that there has been a submergence of the land
lying between the Pacific and the Atlantic since the pliocene period , and
icebergs could not have floated without such submergence , so that , in the cases
I have ...
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For instance , the Heliconii and Morphos are a group of butterflies peculiar to
tropical America , containing many distinct genera which , on any theory of
descent from a common progenitor , must have originated ages before the glacial
period .
For instance , the Heliconii and Morphos are a group of butterflies peculiar to
tropical America , containing many distinct genera which , on any theory of
descent from a common progenitor , must have originated ages before the glacial
period .
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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