 When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.  Unconscious Memory - Page 9by Samuel Butler - 1880 - 288 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 lehte
...America, after being pondered for many years, led to the publication of the Origin of Sptcies in 1859. When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | 1882 - 896 lehte
...asked him how he came to make his great discoveries, he replied, " By always thinking about them." " South America, and in the Geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent, seemed to" throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of "mysteries, as it has been... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - 238 lehte
...Species.' In the Introduction to that immortal work Darwin wrote, some twenty-seven years later, ' When on board HMS " Beagle " as naturalist, I was...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1887 - 296 lehte
...anxious for sudden greatness, who wishes to gather his strawberries before they are ripe. He says : — "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 lehte
...of Species." In the work on that subject, published in 1859, he thus referred to the former period: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 lehte
...ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins : — "When on hoard HMS ' Beagle ' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1892 - 428 lehte
...this work :— Charles Darwin When on board HMS " Beagle" as naturalist (he says in his introduction) I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution...seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - 280 lehte
...investigator ventured to propound. Note what Darwin says in the introduction to his Origin of Species: When on board HMS " Beagle," as naturalist, I was...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - 284 lehte
...propound. Note what Darwin says in the introduction to his Origin of Species : When on board II. MS " Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | George Hodges - 1894 - 302 lehte
...minutes' sermon. Darwin's epoch-making book, the " Origin of Species," begins with this significant paragraph: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist,...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
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