Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page ix
... importance . The remaining chapters have all a more or less direct connection with the leading subject . The family of humming - birds is taken as an illustration of the luxuriant development of allied forms in the tropics , and as ...
... importance . The remaining chapters have all a more or less direct connection with the leading subject . The family of humming - birds is taken as an illustration of the luxuriant development of allied forms in the tropics , and as ...
Page x
... importance and fundamental truth of this theory , I published my first sketch of the subject in Macmillan's Magazine in order that it might have the benefit of criticism before making it public in a more permanent form . Taking ...
... importance and fundamental truth of this theory , I published my first sketch of the subject in Macmillan's Magazine in order that it might have the benefit of criticism before making it public in a more permanent form . Taking ...
Page xii
... Importance of Colour in the Organic World - THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR - SENSE .-- Supposed Increase of Colour - perception within the Historical Period - Concluding Remarks on the Colour - sense pages 221-248 VII . BY - PATHS IN THE ...
... Importance of Colour in the Organic World - THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR - SENSE .-- Supposed Increase of Colour - perception within the Historical Period - Concluding Remarks on the Colour - sense pages 221-248 VII . BY - PATHS IN THE ...
Page 3
... important feature in the physical conditions of the great equatorial zone is the wonderful uniformity of its temperature , alike throughout the changes of day and night , and from one part of the year to another . As a general rule ...
... important feature in the physical conditions of the great equatorial zone is the wonderful uniformity of its temperature , alike throughout the changes of day and night , and from one part of the year to another . As a general rule ...
Page 6
... important difference ; for in Java the day is only about eleven and a half hours long in the month of June , while at London it is sixteen hours long , so that the total amount of sun - heat received by the earth must be then very much ...
... important difference ; for in Java the day is only about eleven and a half hours long in the month of June , while at London it is sixteen hours long , so that the total amount of sun - heat received by the earth must be then very much ...
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