My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... " " NATURAL SELECTION AND TROPICAL NATURE , " ETC. WITH FACSIMILE letters , ILLUSTRATIONS AND PORTRAITS TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I LONDON : CHAPMAN & HALL , LD . PREFACE THE present volumes would not have been written had 1905 MY LIFE.
... " " NATURAL SELECTION AND TROPICAL NATURE , " ETC. WITH FACSIMILE letters , ILLUSTRATIONS AND PORTRAITS TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I LONDON : CHAPMAN & HALL , LD . PREFACE THE present volumes would not have been written had 1905 MY LIFE.
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... tropical orchids , of whose wonderful variety and beauty I had obtained some idea from the woodcuts in Loudon's Encyclo- pædia . The first epiphytal orchid I ever saw was at a flowershow in Swansea , where Mr. J. Dillwyn Llewellyn ...
... tropical orchids , of whose wonderful variety and beauty I had obtained some idea from the woodcuts in Loudon's Encyclo- pædia . The first epiphytal orchid I ever saw was at a flowershow in Swansea , where Mr. J. Dillwyn Llewellyn ...
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... tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the Amazon . But I soon found that by merely identifying the plants I found in my walks I lost much time in gathering the same species several times , and even ...
... tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the Amazon . But I soon found that by merely identifying the plants I found in my walks I lost much time in gathering the same species several times , and even ...
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... tropics . I also read here Prescott's " History of the Conquests of Mexico and Peru , " Robertson's " History of Charles V. " and his " History of America , " and a number of other standard works . But perhaps the most important book I ...
... tropics . I also read here Prescott's " History of the Conquests of Mexico and Peru , " Robertson's " History of Charles V. " and his " History of America , " and a number of other standard works . But perhaps the most important book I ...
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... tropics , but had not then decided where to go . Mr. Bates ' widow having kindly returned to me such of my letters as he had preserved , I find in them some references to the subjects in which I was then interested . I will , therefore ...
... tropics , but had not then decided where to go . Mr. Bates ' widow having kindly returned to me such of my letters as he had preserved , I find in them some references to the subjects in which I was then interested . I will , therefore ...
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