The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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Page 7
... tropical America . Amongst the beetles I found a curious longicorn ( Desmiphora fasciculata ) , covered with long brown and black hairs , and closely resembling some of the short , thick , hairy caterpillars that are common on the ...
... tropical America . Amongst the beetles I found a curious longicorn ( Desmiphora fasciculata ) , covered with long brown and black hairs , and closely resembling some of the short , thick , hairy caterpillars that are common on the ...
Page 36
... tropics , especially in marshy lands , would be greatly lessened between the lake and the Atlantic . Another great ad- vantage would be that the deepening of the river could be effected by steam power , so that it would not be necessary ...
... tropics , especially in marshy lands , would be greatly lessened between the lake and the Atlantic . Another great ad- vantage would be that the deepening of the river could be effected by steam power , so that it would not be necessary ...
Page 54
... tropical America . On the coast of Peru , Darwin found heads of it , * along with eighteen recent species of marine shells , in a raised beach eighty - five feet * 66 " Geological Observations in South America , 1846 , " p . 49 ; and ...
... tropical America . On the coast of Peru , Darwin found heads of it , * along with eighteen recent species of marine shells , in a raised beach eighty - five feet * 66 " Geological Observations in South America , 1846 , " p . 49 ; and ...
Page 58
... tropical American forests . Not less so are the cecropia trees , with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra . Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers , yellow , pink , or white , that ...
... tropical American forests . Not less so are the cecropia trees , with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra . Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers , yellow , pink , or white , that ...
Page 59
... tropics into one mono- tonous whole , of which the component parts exhibit in detail untold variety and beauty . To the genial influence of ever - present moisture and heat we must ascribe the infinite variety of the trees of these ...
... tropics into one mono- tonous whole , of which the component parts exhibit in detail untold variety and beauty . To the genial influence of ever - present moisture and heat we must ascribe the infinite variety of the trees of these ...
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