Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... Structure - Colours and Ornaments - Descriptive Names - The Motions and Habits of Humming - Birds - Display of Ornaments by the Male - Food -Geographical Distribution and Variation - Humming - Birds of Juan Fernandez as illustrating ...
... Structure - Colours and Ornaments - Descriptive Names - The Motions and Habits of Humming - Birds - Display of Ornaments by the Male - Food -Geographical Distribution and Variation - Humming - Birds of Juan Fernandez as illustrating ...
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... structure , and colour of the flowers of orchids is well known ; but even our finest collections give an inadequate idea of the numbers of these plants that exist in the tropics , because a large proportion of them have quite ...
... structure , and colour of the flowers of orchids is well known ; but even our finest collections give an inadequate idea of the numbers of these plants that exist in the tropics , because a large proportion of them have quite ...
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... structures which it presents , for the boundless energy with which the life of plants is therein manifested , or for the help which it gives us in our search after the laws which have determined the production of such infinitely varied ...
... structures which it presents , for the boundless energy with which the life of plants is therein manifested , or for the help which it gives us in our search after the laws which have determined the production of such infinitely varied ...
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... ; while the more extensive zoological groups which have a wide range in the tropics and do not equally abound in the temperate zones , are few in number , and often include such a diversity of forms , structures , and habits , as to render.
... ; while the more extensive zoological groups which have a wide range in the tropics and do not equally abound in the temperate zones , are few in number , and often include such a diversity of forms , structures , and habits , as to render.
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Alfred Russel Wallace. forms , structures , and habits , as to render any typical characterisation of them impossible . We must then , in the first place , suppose that our traveller is on the look out for all signs of animal life ; and ...
Alfred Russel Wallace. forms , structures , and habits , as to render any typical characterisation of them impossible . We must then , in the first place , suppose that our traveller is on the look out for all signs of animal life ; and ...
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