| Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and numerous South American gnawers and monkeys, and other animals. This wonderful relationship in the same continent...disappearance from it, than any other class of facts. how a large quadruped could so lately have subsisted, in lat. 49° 15', on these wretched gravel plains,... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this " law of the succession of types," — on " this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living." Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalisation to the mammals of the Old World. We... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this ' law of the succession of types/—on ' this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living.' Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this " law of the succession of types," — on " this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living." Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalisation to the mammals of the Old World. We... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 506 pages
...facts that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this ' law of the succession of types,' — on ' this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living.' Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We... | |
| American literature - 1883 - 990 pages
...those of the cavedeposits of Australia to the marsupials of that country ; and he thereon remarks : " This wonderful relationship in the same continent...disappearance from it, than any other class of facts." He also saw, at this early period, the important fact that there is some great and constant check to... | |
| John Fiske - Cosmology - 1874 - 522 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, "that T strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living. Prof. Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see... | |
| John Fiske - 1874 - 496 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, "that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living. Prof. Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see... | |
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1875 - 496 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, "that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1815, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living. Prof. Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see... | |
| Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and numerous Soutli American gnawers and monkeys, and other animals. This wonderful relationship in the same continent...o.ur earth, and their disappearance from it, than any oAer class of facts. It is impossible to reflect on the changed state of the American continent without... | |
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