Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, 14. köideJames Samuelson, Sir William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons., 1877 |
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... geologists have recognised that the study of the present condition of the surface of our satellite promises to throw much light on many vexed geological and physical problems . The opinion of that eminent geologist the late Prof ...
... geologists have recognised that the study of the present condition of the surface of our satellite promises to throw much light on many vexed geological and physical problems . The opinion of that eminent geologist the late Prof ...
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... geological era is characterised by higher types of fauna and flora than the preceding one . There must be a cause for this gradual development of new forms . The agent that effects these changes is , ac- cording to the Darwinian theory ...
... geological era is characterised by higher types of fauna and flora than the preceding one . There must be a cause for this gradual development of new forms . The agent that effects these changes is , ac- cording to the Darwinian theory ...
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... geological records , we may conclude that the progenitors of all organisms must be among the earliest , and therefore lowest , forms of life . Thus it would appear that the simplest known forms of life are endowed , equally with the ...
... geological records , we may conclude that the progenitors of all organisms must be among the earliest , and therefore lowest , forms of life . Thus it would appear that the simplest known forms of life are endowed , equally with the ...
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... geological age , the place of its first appearance upon the globe , and of the various extinct forms most nearly allied to it . " But though the correct locality of each species is now recorded in every systematic work on natural ...
... geological age , the place of its first appearance upon the globe , and of the various extinct forms most nearly allied to it . " But though the correct locality of each species is now recorded in every systematic work on natural ...
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... geological epochs , and can identify genera in the tertiary and families even in the paleozoic period . It is true that no part of the world would be so sharply demarcated by its entomological fauna as is Australia by its mammalian ...
... geological epochs , and can identify genera in the tertiary and families even in the paleozoic period . It is true that no part of the world would be so sharply demarcated by its entomological fauna as is Australia by its mammalian ...
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Page 517 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 41 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Page 144 - Deas. — THE RIVER CLYDE. An Historical Description of the Rise and Progress of the Harbour of Glasgow, and of the Improvement of the River from Glasgow to Port Glasgow. By J. DEAS, M.
Page 284 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth, composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now, with water and earth composed of entire particles at the beginning ; and therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations, and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Page 519 - The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
Page 44 - A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man: He now is first, but is he the last? is he not too base?
Page 42 - ... animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated...
Page 540 - Naturalist ; a Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during a Voyage round the World. By CHARLES DARWIN. Illustrations. Post 8vo, gs. Variation of Animals and Plants UNDER DOMESTICATION. By C. DARWIN. Illustrations. 2 vols. cr. 8vo, 18s. The Various Contrivances by which ORCHIDS are FERTILISED by INSECTS.
Page 421 - Svo. 14*. The Geology of England and Wales ; a Concise Account of the Lithological Characters, Leading Fossils, and Economic Products of the Rocks. By HB WOODWARD, FGS Crown Svo.
Page 34 - What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include similar bones, in the same relative positions...