 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district.' (Pp. 72-74.) Thus, after asserting and endeavouring to prove (for it makes a most important link in... | |
 | 1885 - 662 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district! " It is manifest that cases like this cited by Darwin might be extended indefinitely, and we in New... | |
 | 1914 - 764 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district." This quotation calls to mind the familiar story of our childhood about the "House that Jack Built."... | |
 | University of Colorado. University Extension Division - 1913 - 52 pages
...might better have said hawks and owls), because the cats destroy many mice. Hence It is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...determine, through the intervention first of mice and then oi hees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district. Fisher (1) tells of a marsh in New York... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1926 - 440 pages
...knows on the number of cats; . . . hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in a district might determine, through the intervention...of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!"1 Thus we see that an increase or a decrease of any species of animal or plant will inevitably... | |
 | Victor Niederhoffer - 1998 - 484 pages
...nation must have its roast beef made of cattle. He concludes the chain: Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, tbrough the intervention first of mice and then of hees, the frequency of certain flowers in that districti... | |
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Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district... 
