The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 45
... America . On the coast of Peru , Darwin found heads of it , along with eighteen recent species of marine shells , in a raised beach eighty - five feet above the level of the sea ; and in the same country it has been found in tombs ...
... America . On the coast of Peru , Darwin found heads of it , along with eighteen recent species of marine shells , in a raised beach eighty - five feet above the level of the sea ; and in the same country it has been found in tombs ...
Page 57
... America ; but none of them frequented the flowers of the scarlet runner , and to that circumstance we may safely ascribe its sterility . An analogous case has been long known . The vanilla plant ( Vanilla planifolia ) has been ...
... America ; but none of them frequented the flowers of the scarlet runner , and to that circumstance we may safely ascribe its sterility . An analogous case has been long known . The vanilla plant ( Vanilla planifolia ) has been ...
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... America , and in the Pacific the Malay Archipelago will give place to the Malay Continent . Here is a noble inquiry , an unexplored region of research , at the entrance of which I can only stand and point the way for abler and stronger ...
... America , and in the Pacific the Malay Archipelago will give place to the Malay Continent . Here is a noble inquiry , an unexplored region of research , at the entrance of which I can only stand and point the way for abler and stronger ...
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