My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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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 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. hemisphere was , according to Croll , then more ...
... 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. hemisphere was , according to Croll , then more ...
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... Mountain - tops within the Tropics . - Having paid great attention to the whole question of the distribution of organisms , I was obliged to reject Mr. Darwin's explanation of the above phenomena by a cooling of the tropical lowlands of ...
... Mountain - tops within the Tropics . - Having paid great attention to the whole question of the distribution of organisms , I was obliged to reject Mr. Darwin's explanation of the above phenomena by a cooling of the tropical lowlands of ...
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... mountains . The study of the floras of oceanic islands having led me to the conclusion that the greater part of their flora was derived by aërial transmission of seeds , either by birds or by gales and storms , I extended this view to ...
... mountains . The study of the floras of oceanic islands having led me to the conclusion that the greater part of their flora was derived by aërial transmission of seeds , either by birds or by gales and storms , I extended this view to ...
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... I had pretty well exhausted the interests of the association meetings , and preferred to take my autumn holiday , with my wife and two children , either by the sea or among the mountains , where we could FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES 49.
... I had pretty well exhausted the interests of the association meetings , and preferred to take my autumn holiday , with my wife and two children , either by the sea or among the mountains , where we could FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES 49.
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