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Side 23
... structure , or other external aspects of rock - masses . Now , however , a fossil branch , a tooth , or a few scattered fish- scales , will enable them to identify with certainty strata in distant localities , and so save years of ...
... structure , or other external aspects of rock - masses . Now , however , a fossil branch , a tooth , or a few scattered fish- scales , will enable them to identify with certainty strata in distant localities , and so save years of ...
Side 26
... structures found to - day may not be turned up even for years to come - and in face of the toil and expense which ... structural characteristics of plants and animals throughout all time , the Palæontologist , strong in his faith and ...
... structures found to - day may not be turned up even for years to come - and in face of the toil and expense which ... structural characteristics of plants and animals throughout all time , the Palæontologist , strong in his faith and ...
Side 29
... structure . More than this : every climatic influence , how- ever faint , leaves its impress on vegetable life . A thicker layer . is added to the concentric growth of the timber - tree during a genial than during an ungenial summer ...
... structure . More than this : every climatic influence , how- ever faint , leaves its impress on vegetable life . A thicker layer . is added to the concentric growth of the timber - tree during a genial than during an ungenial summer ...
Side 32
... structure of plants and animals every variety of form , every conceiv- able adaptation of structure , proceeds from the modification of a few elementary forms and types in nature . Without this uniformity of plan and design , the study ...
... structure of plants and animals every variety of form , every conceiv- able adaptation of structure , proceeds from the modification of a few elementary forms and types in nature . Without this uniformity of plan and design , the study ...
Side 34
... structure than the timber - tree , in which is elaborated a variety of tissues , which is increased by leaf - growth , and whose reproduction is pro- vided for by a complicated process of flowering and fructifi- cation . Aware of these ...
... structure than the timber - tree , in which is elaborated a variety of tissues , which is increased by leaf - growth , and whose reproduction is pro- vided for by a complicated process of flowering and fructifi- cation . Aware of these ...
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe, a Sketch of the World's Life-System Co-Director Media South Asia Project Institute of Development Studies David Page Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Side 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Side 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...