My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... seen the prob- ability of the occurrence of inedibility in the larvæ as well as in the perfect insects . In the year 1870 Mr. A. W. Bennett read a paper before Section D of the British Association at Liverpool , entitled , " The Theory ...
... seen the prob- ability of the occurrence of inedibility in the larvæ as well as in the perfect insects . In the year 1870 Mr. A. W. Bennett read a paper before Section D of the British Association at Liverpool , entitled , " The Theory ...
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... seen . There were also a good many doubts and suggestions on the very difficult questions in the discussion of the causes of the glacial epochs . Chapter xxiii , discussing the Arctic element in south temperate floras , was the part he ...
... seen . There were also a good many doubts and suggestions on the very difficult questions in the discussion of the causes of the glacial epochs . Chapter xxiii , discussing the Arctic element in south temperate floras , was the part he ...
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... seen . Spencer had also read this , and differed from me , thinking that important parts of the duke's theory of flight were not true , because they would not apply equally to bats ; and we had quite a discussion on the subject . The ...
... seen . Spencer had also read this , and differed from me , thinking that important parts of the duke's theory of flight were not true , because they would not apply equally to bats ; and we had quite a discussion on the subject . The ...
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... seen . In 1872 , in my presidential address to the Entomological Society , I endeavoured to expound Herbert Spencer's theory of the origin of insects , on the view that they are funda- mentally compound animals , each segment ...
... seen . In 1872 , in my presidential address to the Entomological Society , I endeavoured to expound Herbert Spencer's theory of the origin of insects , on the view that they are funda- mentally compound animals , each segment ...
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... seen the work you name- ' Progress and Poverty ' ; having had a copy , or rather two copies , sent me . I gathered , from what little I glanced at , that I should funda- mentally disagree with the writer , and have not read more . " I ...
... seen the work you name- ' Progress and Poverty ' ; having had a copy , or rather two copies , sent me . I gathered , from what little I glanced at , that I should funda- mentally disagree with the writer , and have not read more . " I ...
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