My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 406
... Sir Charles Lyell's great work , " The Principles of Geology , " which greatly pleased him as well as Darwin . A considerable part of this article was devoted to a discussion of Mr. Croll's explanation of the glacial epoch , and , by a ...
... Sir Charles Lyell's great work , " The Principles of Geology , " which greatly pleased him as well as Darwin . A considerable part of this article was devoted to a discussion of Mr. Croll's explanation of the glacial epoch , and , by a ...
Page 409
... SIR CHARLES LYELL SOON after my return home in the spring of 1862 , my oldest friend and schoolfellow , Mr. George Silk , introduced me to a small circle of his friends , who had formed a private chess club , and ... SIR CHARLES LYELL.
... SIR CHARLES LYELL SOON after my return home in the spring of 1862 , my oldest friend and schoolfellow , Mr. George Silk , introduced me to a small circle of his friends , who had formed a private chess club , and ... SIR CHARLES LYELL.
Page 415
... Sir Charles Lyell , and after an interview with him he promised to help me with the Government , while Huxley ( I think ) introduced me to Sir Henry Cole , then head of the Science and Art Department at South Kensington . I also had the ...
... Sir Charles Lyell , and after an interview with him he promised to help me with the Government , while Huxley ( I think ) introduced me to Sir Henry Cole , then head of the Science and Art Department at South Kensington . I also had the ...
Page 417
... Sir Charles Lyell , not only on account of his great abilities and his position as one of the brightest ornaments of the nineteenth century , but because I saw more of him than of any other man at all approaching him as ... SIR CHARLES LYELL.
... Sir Charles Lyell , not only on account of his great abilities and his position as one of the brightest ornaments of the nineteenth century , but because I saw more of him than of any other man at all approaching him as ... SIR CHARLES LYELL.
Page 418
... Sir Charles objected ( May 22 , 1864 ) —very naturally for a geologist , and for one who had so recently become a convert to Darwin's views - that my suggestion of man's possible origination , so early as the Miocene , was 418 [ CHAP ...
... Sir Charles objected ( May 22 , 1864 ) —very naturally for a geologist , and for one who had so recently become a convert to Darwin's views - that my suggestion of man's possible origination , so early as the Miocene , was 418 [ CHAP ...
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