The Naturalist in NicaraguaThe Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 344 pages The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published.--Charles Darwin, 1874. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read, this classic book describes the geography, geology, ecology, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of Nicaragua in the nineteenth century. Many of Belt's detailed and accurate observations were not confirmed until decades later--for example, the fact that certain plants have standing armies of ants that defend them. |
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Page xii
... glacial period which were to be the study of the last years of his life , and to which he himself attached the greatest importance . In Wales he took up the question of the age of the rocks in the neighbourhood of Dolgelly , and after ...
... glacial period which were to be the study of the last years of his life , and to which he himself attached the greatest importance . In Wales he took up the question of the age of the rocks in the neighbourhood of Dolgelly , and after ...
Page xiv
... glacial period , entering with zest into the consideration of its cause , the method of deposition of its beds , and the time - relationship of man to it - complex questions on which his imagination had full scope , and which , had his ...
... glacial period , entering with zest into the consideration of its cause , the method of deposition of its beds , and the time - relationship of man to it - complex questions on which his imagination had full scope , and which , had his ...
Page xv
... glacial period , and those readers who desire to pursue the matter will find assistance for doing so in the bibliography at the end of this Introduction . Of more immediate interest to us are the " observations on animals and plants in ...
... glacial period , and those readers who desire to pursue the matter will find assistance for doing so in the bibliography at the end of this Introduction . Of more immediate interest to us are the " observations on animals and plants in ...
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... Glacial Phenomena in Nicaragua , Amer . Journ . Sci . , vol . 7 , 1874 , pp . 594-595 ; An Examination of the Theories that have been proposed to account for the Climate of the Glacial Period , Journ . of Sci . , vol . 4 , 1874 , PP ...
... Glacial Phenomena in Nicaragua , Amer . Journ . Sci . , vol . 7 , 1874 , pp . 594-595 ; An Examination of the Theories that have been proposed to account for the Climate of the Glacial Period , Journ . of Sci . , vol . 4 , 1874 , PP ...
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... GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA , " ETC. ETC " It was his faith - perhaps is mine- That life in all its forms is one , And that its secret conduits run Unseen , but in unbroken line , From the great fountain - head divine , Through man ...
... GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA , " ETC. ETC " It was his faith - perhaps is mine- That life in all its forms is one , And that its secret conduits run Unseen , but in unbroken line , From the great fountain - head divine , Through man ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
CHAPTER IV | 37 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 68 |
CHAPTER VII | 81 |
CHAPTER VIII | 98 |
CHAPTER XII | 165 |
CHAPTER XIII | 179 |
CHAPTER XIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XV | 211 |
CHAPTER XVI | 224 |
CHAPTER XVII | 236 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XIX | 258 |
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