My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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A Record of Events and Opinions Alfred Russel Wallace. had Loudon's " Encyclopædia of Plants , " which contained all the British plants , and he would lend it to me , and I could copy the characters of the British species . I therefore ...
A Record of Events and Opinions Alfred Russel Wallace. had Loudon's " Encyclopædia of Plants , " which contained all the British plants , and he would lend it to me , and I could copy the characters of the British species . I therefore ...
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... plants I found in my walks I lost much time in gathering the same species several times , and even then not being always quite sure that I had found the same plant before . I therefore began to form a herbarium , collecting good ...
... plants I found in my walks I lost much time in gathering the same species several times , and even then not being always quite sure that I had found the same plant before . I therefore began to form a herbarium , collecting good ...
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... plants that I began to write down , more or less systematically , my ideas on various subjects that interested me . Three of these early attempts have been preserved and are now before me . They all bear dates of the autumn or winter of ...
... plants that I began to write down , more or less systematically , my ideas on various subjects that interested me . Three of these early attempts have been preserved and are now before me . They all bear dates of the autumn or winter of ...
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... plants by means of a few well - marked and easily observed characters . I then showed how and why this classification was only occasionally , and as it were accidentally , a natural one ; that in a vast number of cases it grouped ...
... plants by means of a few well - marked and easily observed characters . I then showed how and why this classification was only occasionally , and as it were accidentally , a natural one ; that in a vast number of cases it grouped ...
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... plants and of many of the lower animal types . Thus the simplest facts of everyday life have to him an inner meaning , and he sees that they depend upon the same general laws as those that are at work in the grandest phenomena of nature ...
... plants and of many of the lower animal types . Thus the simplest facts of everyday life have to him an inner meaning , and he sees that they depend upon the same general laws as those that are at work in the grandest phenomena of nature ...
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