My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 226
... groups and sub - groups , each with a quite new technical name . This often seems to me more confusing than enlightening , and when other writers introduce different terms of their own , or use them in a somewhat different sense , or ...
... groups and sub - groups , each with a quite new technical name . This often seems to me more confusing than enlightening , and when other writers introduce different terms of their own , or use them in a somewhat different sense , or ...
Page 234
... group of phenomena to me were those termed phreno - mesmerism . I had read , when with my brother , George Combe's " Constitution of Man , " with which I had been greatly interested , and afterwards one of the writer's works on ...
... group of phenomena to me were those termed phreno - mesmerism . I had read , when with my brother , George Combe's " Constitution of Man , " with which I had been greatly interested , and afterwards one of the writer's works on ...
Page 270
... groups of animals is wonderfully great . The special interest of this country to the naturalist is , that while there appears at first to be so few of the higher forms of life , there is in reality an inexhaustible variety of almost all ...
... groups of animals is wonderfully great . The special interest of this country to the naturalist is , that while there appears at first to be so few of the higher forms of life , there is in reality an inexhaustible variety of almost all ...
Page 284
... group which abounds in the fresh waters of tropical America and Africa , where it replaces the carps ( Cyprinidæ ) of Europe and the Old World generally , though not very closely allied to them . Many of the species are very like some ...
... group which abounds in the fresh waters of tropical America and Africa , where it replaces the carps ( Cyprinidæ ) of Europe and the Old World generally , though not very closely allied to them . Many of the species are very like some ...
Page 284
... groups of South American fishes . All are of moderate size , and feed partially or entirely on vegetable substances , especially fruits which grow on the river - banks and when ripe fall into the water . They are caught with fruits as a ...
... groups of South American fishes . All are of moderate size , and feed partially or entirely on vegetable substances , especially fruits which grow on the river - banks and when ripe fall into the water . They are caught with fruits as a ...
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