The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1919 |
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... present a patchwork of subjects , each of which would be difficult to follow . The Table of Contents will show in what way I have attempted to avoid this result . In printing the letters I have followed ( except in a 350673 few cases ) ...
... present a patchwork of subjects , each of which would be difficult to follow . The Table of Contents will show in what way I have attempted to avoid this result . In printing the letters I have followed ( except in a 350673 few cases ) ...
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... present chapter , were written for his children , and written without any thought that they would ever be published . To many this may seem an impossibility ; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible ...
... present chapter , were written for his children , and written without any thought that they would ever be published . To many this may seem an impossibility ; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible ...
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... present Sir J. Kay - Shuttleworth . Dr. Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian So- ciety , where various papers on natural history were read , dis- cussed , and afterwards published in the ' Transactions . ' I heard ...
... present Sir J. Kay - Shuttleworth . Dr. Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian So- ciety , where various papers on natural history were read , dis- cussed , and afterwards published in the ' Transactions . ' I heard ...
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... present total oblivion of Elie de Beau- mont's wild hypotheses , such as his ' Craters of Elevation ' and ' Lines of Elevation ' ( which latter hypothesis I heard Sedgwick at the Geological Society lauding to the skies ) , may be ...
... present total oblivion of Elie de Beau- mont's wild hypotheses , such as his ' Craters of Elevation ' and ' Lines of Elevation ' ( which latter hypothesis I heard Sedgwick at the Geological Society lauding to the skies ) , may be ...
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... present state of knowledge permits . Towards the end of the work I give my well - abused hypothesis of Pangenesis . An unverified hypothe- sis is of little or no value ; but if any one should hereafter be led to make observations by ...
... present state of knowledge permits . Towards the end of the work I give my well - abused hypothesis of Pangenesis . An unverified hypothe- sis is of little or no value ; but if any one should hereafter be led to make observations by ...
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