 | 1861 - 716 pages
...representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin, straggling branch springing from a fork low...an animal like the .ornithorhynchus or lepidosiren, whioh in some degree connects ,by its affinities two large branches of life, and which has apparently... | |
 | 1860 - 594 pages
...known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin struggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin, straggling branch springing from a fork low...the ornithorhynchus or lepidosiren, which in some degree connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...straggling branch. springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally...Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosiren, which in some small decree connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally...in some small degree connects by its affinities two largo branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from fatal competition by having inhabited... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - 492 pages
...representatives, and which are known to us only in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thiu straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so wo occasionally sec an animal like the Oroithorhynchus... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1883 - 494 pages
...straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosircn, which in some small de^ee connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 pages
...representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus... | |
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... in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree... 
