 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
 | Hardy Hoover - 1980 - 228 lehte
...method hy discussing five typical paragraphs. The following one was written in 1859. When on hoard HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distrihution of organic heings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present... | |
 | John Huntington - 1982 - 230 lehte
...opening lines of his introduction to The Origin of Species Darwin describes himself as having been "much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America," Sir Richard Owen finds the word inhabitants bothersome: "Mr. Darwin must be aware of what is commonly... | |
 | Esa Saarinen - 1982 - 388 lehte
...classification of living organisms. He commences the Origin of Species (1859): "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America". Later (Chapter XIII), he writes "Oceanic islands are sometimes... | |
 | D. S. Bendall - 1983 - 612 lehte
...nature of consciousness. Descent with modification The first sentence of The Origin of Species reads: '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... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - 1982 - 996 lehte
...legitimate. Common Descent and Patterns of Geographical Distribution The first sentences in the Origin are, "When on board HMS 'Beagle', as naturalist, I was...the distribution of the inhabitants of South America . . . These facts 439 seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of... | |
 | Hadley Cantril, Albert Hadley Cantril - 274 lehte
...paragraph of his introduction to the Origin of Spates ( i859). Darwin clearly belies any such contention: 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... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - 400 lehte
...opening passage *) Origin, i ed. r., 297. of the Origin of Species: "When on board HMS 'Beagle', as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in...seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species."3) He devoted a whole chapter in his book to this problem, where he at once presented the... | |
 | David E. Leary - 1994 - 404 lehte
...exemplified by Darwin's statement that the Origin of Species (1859/1964) began to take shape when he was "struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America" (p. 1, italics added). The intended image is clear: He was simply standing there, on Her Majesty's... | |
 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 lehte
...not simply be observed: the origin of the different species. Darwin was intrigued by this problem: 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... | |
 | Keith Ansell-Pearson - 1997 - 296 lehte
...Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) Darwin remembers how 'When on board HMS "Beagle" as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in...present to the past inhabitants of that continent'. This opening, of extraordinary economy and beauty, locates the observer at a specific time and place... | |
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