My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 350
... ( Sarawak ) , and have therefore got a good idea of what this part of the Archipelago is like . Compared with the Amazon valley , the great and striking feature here is the excessive poverty of the Diurnal Lepidoptera . The glorious ...
... ( Sarawak ) , and have therefore got a good idea of what this part of the Archipelago is like . Compared with the Amazon valley , the great and striking feature here is the excessive poverty of the Diurnal Lepidoptera . The glorious ...
Page 351
... Sarawak . However , during the dry weather at Sarawak I was very fortunate in finding a good locality for beetles , at which I worked hard for five or six months . At Singapore and Malacca I collected about a thousand species of beetles ...
... Sarawak . However , during the dry weather at Sarawak I was very fortunate in finding a good locality for beetles , at which I worked hard for five or six months . At Singapore and Malacca I collected about a thousand species of beetles ...
Page 352
... Sarawak 290 , but as only about fifty from the former places occurred at the latter , my Longicorns must now reach about 400 species . . . . As to size , I have only about thirty species which exceed an inch in length , the majority ...
... Sarawak 290 , but as only about fifty from the former places occurred at the latter , my Longicorns must now reach about 400 species . . . . As to size , I have only about thirty species which exceed an inch in length , the majority ...
Page 353
... Sarawak are not quite comparable with the older towns of the Amazon . Here provisions and labour are dear , and travelling is both tedious and expensive . Servants ' wages are high , and the customs of the country do not permit you to ...
... Sarawak are not quite comparable with the older towns of the Amazon . Here provisions and labour are dear , and travelling is both tedious and expensive . Servants ' wages are high , and the customs of the country do not permit you to ...
Page 354
... Sarawak , which formed my first contribution to the great question of the origin of species . It was written during the wet season , while I was staying in a little house at the mouth of the Sarawak river , at the foot of the Santu ...
... Sarawak , which formed my first contribution to the great question of the origin of species . It was written during the wet season , while I was staying in a little house at the mouth of the Sarawak river , at the foot of the Santu ...
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