 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
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1895 - 1164 lehte
...can seize it. The first strain of the prelude with -which the ' Origin ' commences are these words: ' When on board HMS " Beagle " as naturalist, I was...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America.' But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who... | |
 | Willis Linn Jepson - 1895 - 228 lehte
...can seize it The first strain of the prelude with which the ' Origin ' commences are these words : ' When on board HMS "Beagle" as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America.' But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 lehte
...November 24th, 1859, and the second edition on January 7th, 1860. ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 lehte
...naturalist, I waa much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 lehte
...strain of the prelude with which the "Origin" commences are these words: "When on board HMS Reagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America." But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 454 lehte
...preface to the Origin of Species, published in 1859, he outlined his plan of work in the following words: "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... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 448 lehte
...much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South •l"u" s America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seem to throw some light on the origin of species, that mystery of mysteries,... | |
 | 1901 - 486 lehte
...anything. But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins:— "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... | |
 | 1901 - 484 lehte
...anything. But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins: — "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... | |
 | James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge - 1903 - 550 lehte
...world, and "was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." After his return home, twenty additional years were spent in collecting facts, making further observations... | |
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