 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
 | Keith Ansell-Pearson - 1997 - 292 lehte
...Speciet 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...distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in me geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent'. This opening, of... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 1999 - 330 lehte
...as Illustrative of the "Wisdom and Beneficence of the Almighty " (London: Macmillan, 1873), p. 161. 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... | |
 | Timberlake Wertenbaker - 1999 - 86 lehte
...tourists, taking in some stuffed birds. MILLIE looks at books and reads off their various titles. DARWIN. When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of inhabitants of South America — FITZROY. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed... | |
 | James Munves - 1999 - 216 lehte
...antipodes 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 . . . These facts . . . seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries.... | |
 | Miguel Ángel Vega, Rafael Martín-Gaitero - 1999 - 746 lehte
...1980, p. 290). inglesa no exige evitar la repetición del término inhabilants (resaltado nuestro): When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with cerlain facts in tlie distribution ofthe inhabitants qf South America, and in the geological relations... | |
 | Bruce S. Lieberman - 2000 - 230 lehte
...reading this book. let me quote the opening sentence of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species . . . When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Gordon Miller - 2000 - 266 lehte
...through salt-water, than could the slimy spawn of frogs? From The Origin of Species (1859) Introduction 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... | |
 | Bagehot - 2001 - 300 lehte
...thing. 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... | |
 | David Simpson - 2002 - 308 lehte
...is the first sentence of Darwin's introduction to The Origin of Species: "When on board HMS Becyle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts...geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants ofthat continent." 33 The information passed on here is much the same as it would be in a sentence... | |
 | Jorge V. Crisci, Liliana Katinas, Paula Posadas - 2003 - 278 lehte
...evolutionary theory. Darwin himself stated in the opening paragraph of The Origin of the Species (1859): "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...me to throw some light on the origin of species." Today, as in Darwin's time, the distribution of living beings offers an inexhaustible source of light... | |
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