Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page viii
... 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 . The ...
... 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 . The ...
Page 38
... remains tangled on the ground . Sometimes branches only fall and carry a portion of the creeper tightly stretched to an adjoining tree ; at other times the whole tree is arrested by a neighbour to which the creeper soon transfers itself ...
... remains tangled on the ground . Sometimes branches only fall and carry a portion of the creeper tightly stretched to an adjoining tree ; at other times the whole tree is arrested by a neighbour to which the creeper soon transfers itself ...
Page 72
... remains , the observer can hardly fail to be struck by the abundance and the conspicuous beauty of the butterflies . Not only are they abundant in individuals , but their large size , their elegant forms , their rich and varied colours ...
... remains , the observer can hardly fail to be struck by the abundance and the conspicuous beauty of the butterflies . Not only are they abundant in individuals , but their large size , their elegant forms , their rich and varied colours ...
Page 142
... remains to this day intermediate between the Juan Fernandez and the Chilian forms . More re- cently , the parent form has again migrated from Chili to Juan Fernandez , where it still lives side by side with its greatly changed ...
... remains to this day intermediate between the Juan Fernandez and the Chilian forms . More re- cently , the parent form has again migrated from Chili to Juan Fernandez , where it still lives side by side with its greatly changed ...
Page 145
... remains almost undistinguishable from his imme- diate ancestral form ; but he is a little smaller , indicat- ing either that the full size of that form had not been acquired at the period of migration , or that a slight diminution of ...
... remains almost undistinguishable from his imme- diate ancestral form ; but he is a little smaller , indicat- ing either that the full size of that form had not been acquired at the period of migration , or that a slight diminution of ...
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