Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page viii
... organic remains . This part of the subject is however both complex and difficult , and I have only attempted to indicate what seem to me the special physical conditions to which the existing peculiarities of tropical life are mainly due ...
... organic remains . This part of the subject is however both complex and difficult , and I have only attempted to indicate what seem to me the special physical conditions to which the existing peculiarities of tropical life are mainly due ...
Page ix
... organic world , and its special develop- ments among certain groups of animals , I have been led . to a theory of the diverse colours of the sexes and of the special ornaments and brilliant hues which dis- tinguish certain male birds ...
... organic world , and its special develop- ments among certain groups of animals , I have been led . to a theory of the diverse colours of the sexes and of the special ornaments and brilliant hues which dis- tinguish certain male birds ...
Page xii
... Organic Colours - Protective Colours - Warning Colours -Sexual Colours -- Typical Colours - The Nature of Colour - How Animal Colours are Produced - Colour a Normal Product of Organization - Theory of Protective Colours - Theory of ...
... Organic Colours - Protective Colours - Warning Colours -Sexual Colours -- Typical Colours - The Nature of Colour - How Animal Colours are Produced - Colour a Normal Product of Organization - Theory of Protective Colours - Theory of ...
Page 66
... organic forces , which gives the advantage , now to one , now to another , species , and prevents any one type of vegetation from monopolising territory to the exclusion of the rest . The same general causes have led to the filling up ...
... organic forces , which gives the advantage , now to one , now to another , species , and prevents any one type of vegetation from monopolising territory to the exclusion of the rest . The same general causes have led to the filling up ...
Page 79
... organic world ; therefore the study of butterflies - creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity — instead of being despised , will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of biological science . " Next ...
... organic world ; therefore the study of butterflies - creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity — instead of being despised , will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of biological science . " Next ...
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