The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... Society awarded him its first gold medal for an experimental inquiry on pus and mucus . Notices of him appeared in various jour- nals ; and all the writers agree about his uncommon energy and abilities . He seems like his father to have ...
... Society awarded him its first gold medal for an experimental inquiry on pus and mucus . Notices of him appeared in various jour- nals ; and all the writers agree about his uncommon energy and abilities . He seems like his father to have ...
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... repose which gave his friend's society an influence at once stimulating and soothing , and the warmthi * Carlyle's ' Reminiscences , ' vol . ii . p . 208 . of his appreciation was not made known first in its 22 THE DARWIN FAMILY .
... repose which gave his friend's society an influence at once stimulating and soothing , and the warmthi * Carlyle's ' Reminiscences , ' vol . ii . p . 208 . of his appreciation was not made known first in its 22 THE DARWIN FAMILY .
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... Society . This was that the so- called ova of Flustra had the power of independent move- ment by means of cilia , and were in fact larvæ . In another short paper I showed that the little globular bodies which had been supposed to be the ...
... Society . This was that the so- called ova of Flustra had the power of independent move- ment by means of cilia , and were in fact larvæ . In another short paper I showed that the little globular bodies which had been supposed to be the ...
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... society asked me earnestly by letter for a photograph of myself ; and some time afterwards I received the proceedings of one of the meetings , in which it seemed that the shape of my head had been the subject of a public discus ...
... society asked me earnestly by letter for a photograph of myself ; and some time afterwards I received the proceedings of one of the meetings , in which it seemed that the shape of my head had been the subject of a public discus ...
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... Society , and the notion seemed to me preposterous . During my last year at Cambridge , I read with care and . profound interest Humboldt's ' Personal Narrative . ' This work , and Sir J. Herschel's ' Introduction to the Study of ...
... Society , and the notion seemed to me preposterous . During my last year at Cambridge , I read with care and . profound interest Humboldt's ' Personal Narrative . ' This work , and Sir J. Herschel's ' Introduction to the Study of ...
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