The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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... natural desire , to explore and understand the ways of science . I am ambitious of doing something that will deserve the praise or excite the admiration of mankind . " When the praise and admiration came , no one could have been more ...
... natural desire , to explore and understand the ways of science . I am ambitious of doing something that will deserve the praise or excite the admiration of mankind . " When the praise and admiration came , no one could have been more ...
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... natural productions of one country on the soil of some distant one , study the mutual relations of plants and ... Natural History , October 1868 . 2 * Taylor's Annals of Natural History , vol . iii . p . 1 . 66 " " forests , their ...
... natural productions of one country on the soil of some distant one , study the mutual relations of plants and ... Natural History , October 1868 . 2 * Taylor's Annals of Natural History , vol . iii . p . 1 . 66 " " forests , their ...
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... natural species , readily interbreed , and if left to themselves rapidly revert to a common type . In natural selection there is a great and fundamental difference . The varieties that arise can seldom be separated from the parent form ...
... natural species , readily interbreed , and if left to themselves rapidly revert to a common type . In natural selection there is a great and fundamental difference . The varieties that arise can seldom be separated from the parent form ...
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