My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 359
... Ternate ( January 25 , 1858 ) , and made the following observation : " If you go to the Andes I think you will be disappointed , at least in the number of species , especially of Coleoptera . My experience here is that the low grounds ...
... Ternate ( January 25 , 1858 ) , and made the following observation : " If you go to the Andes I think you will be disappointed , at least in the number of species , especially of Coleoptera . My experience here is that the low grounds ...
Page 360
... Ternate in order to get ready for my next journey , and to decide where I should go , that the idea already referred to occurred to me . It has been shown how , for the preceding eight or nine years , the great problem of the origin of ...
... Ternate in order to get ready for my next journey , and to decide where I should go , that the idea already referred to occurred to me . It has been shown how , for the preceding eight or nine years , the great problem of the origin of ...
Page 363
... Ternate I made two visits to different parts of the large island of Gilolo , where my hunters obtained a number of very fine birds , but owing to the absence of good virgin forest and my own ill- health , I obtained very few insects ...
... Ternate I made two visits to different parts of the large island of Gilolo , where my hunters obtained a number of very fine birds , but owing to the absence of good virgin forest and my own ill- health , I obtained very few insects ...
Page 364
... Ternate . I was the first European who had lived alone on this great island ; but partly owing to an accident which confined me to the house for a month , and partly because the locality was not a good one , I did not get the rare ...
... Ternate . I was the first European who had lived alone on this great island ; but partly owing to an accident which confined me to the house for a month , and partly because the locality was not a good one , I did not get the rare ...
Page 365
... Ternate . I have now quite recovered from the effects of my New Guinea voyage , and am in good health . " I reached Batchian on October 21 , and about a month afterwards , there being a Government boat going to Ternate , I took the ...
... Ternate . I have now quite recovered from the effects of my New Guinea voyage , and am in good health . " I reached Batchian on October 21 , and about a month afterwards , there being a Government boat going to Ternate , I took the ...
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