My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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... mountains and dispersal from mountain to mountain . I still believe in Alpine plants having lived on the lowlands and in the southern tropical regions having been cooled during glacial periods , and thus only can I understand character ...
... mountains and dispersal from mountain to mountain . I still believe in Alpine plants having lived on the lowlands and in the southern tropical regions having been cooled during glacial periods , and thus only can I understand character ...
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... mountains of Abyssinia , or other central mountains of Africa , to the mountains of Madagascar . It seems to me almost infinitely more probable that Madagascar extended far to the south during the glacial period , and that the S ...
... mountains of Abyssinia , or other central mountains of Africa , to the mountains of Madagascar . It seems to me almost infinitely more probable that Madagascar extended far to the south during the glacial period , and that the S ...
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... Mountain - tops within the Tropics . - Having paid great attention to the whole question of the distribution of organ ... mountains . The study of the floras of oceanic islands having led me to the conclusion that the greater part of ...
... Mountain - tops within the Tropics . - Having paid great attention to the whole question of the distribution of organ ... mountains . The study of the floras of oceanic islands having led me to the conclusion that the greater part of ...
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... mountains of Abyssinia . I look at it as certain that these plants crossed the whole of Africa , from east to west , during the same period . I wish I had published a long chapter , written in full , and almost ready for the press , on ...
... mountains of Abyssinia . I look at it as certain that these plants crossed the whole of Africa , from east to west , during the same period . I wish I had published a long chapter , written in full , and almost ready for the press , on ...
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... mountains , where we could quietly enjoy the beauties of nature in aspects somewhat new to us ; the only exception I afterwards made being the jubilee meeting at York , and even here the chief attractions were the beautiful Alpine ...
... mountains , where we could quietly enjoy the beauties of nature in aspects somewhat new to us ; the only exception I afterwards made being the jubilee meeting at York , and even here the chief attractions were the beautiful Alpine ...
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