My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... PROFESSOR ROLLESTON , MR . AUG . MONGREDIEN , SIR RICHARD OWEN , DR . RICHARD SPRUCE CHAPTER XXVIII MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES : DR . PURLAND , MR . SAMUEL BUTLER , PROFESSOR HAUGHTON . CHAPTER XXIX SKETCH OF MY LIFE WORK , 1871-1886 ...
... PROFESSOR ROLLESTON , MR . AUG . MONGREDIEN , SIR RICHARD OWEN , DR . RICHARD SPRUCE CHAPTER XXVIII MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES : DR . PURLAND , MR . SAMUEL BUTLER , PROFESSOR HAUGHTON . CHAPTER XXIX SKETCH OF MY LIFE WORK , 1871-1886 ...
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... Professor A. Newton's " Dictionary of Birds , " in the article " Flight , " and is the clearest exposition of the subject I have yet seen . In 1872 , in my presidential address to the Entomological Society , I endeavoured to expound ...
... Professor A. Newton's " Dictionary of Birds , " in the article " Flight , " and is the clearest exposition of the subject I have yet seen . In 1872 , in my presidential address to the Entomological Society , I endeavoured to expound ...
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... Professor Alfred Newton , Dr. P. L. Slater , Mr. St. George Mivart , Sir William Flower , Sir Norman Lockyer , Professor R. Meldola , and many others whose names are only known to specialists . All these I met very frequently at ...
... Professor Alfred Newton , Dr. P. L. Slater , Mr. St. George Mivart , Sir William Flower , Sir Norman Lockyer , Professor R. Meldola , and many others whose names are only known to specialists . All these I met very frequently at ...
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... Professor E. B. Poulton , of Oxford ; F. W. H. Myers , Professors W. F. Barrett and Percival Wright , of Dublin , with Professors Patrick Geddes , of Edinburgh , and J. A. Thomson , of Aber- deen . For the last quarter of a century I ...
... Professor E. B. Poulton , of Oxford ; F. W. H. Myers , Professors W. F. Barrett and Percival Wright , of Dublin , with Professors Patrick Geddes , of Edinburgh , and J. A. Thomson , of Aber- deen . For the last quarter of a century I ...
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... Professor de Morgan called a " paradoxer , " and the Americans a " crank , " and I dare say the poor man lived and died in the conviction that astron- omers were ashamed to confess their error . Now the essential point , rarely ...
... Professor de Morgan called a " paradoxer , " and the Americans a " crank , " and I dare say the poor man lived and died in the conviction that astron- omers were ashamed to confess their error . Now the essential point , rarely ...
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