 | Henry Woodward - 1897 - 656 pages
...fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, K. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists, as...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species." The ballot for the Council and officers was taken, and the following were declared duly elected for... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - 472 pages
...this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely Cuvier, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, E. Forbes, etc., and...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species. But I have reason to believe that one great authority, Sir Charles Lyell, from further reflection entertains... | |
 | 1863 - 712 pages
...past world no transmutation of species. Mr. Darwin admits that all the most eminent paleontologists, namely, Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer,...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species. " I feel," says he, " how rash it is to differ from these great authorities, to whom with others we... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 pages
...claimed it. Again: " All the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists,...vehemently, maintained the immutability of Species. ... I feel how rash it is to differ from these great authorities. . . . Those who think the natural... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 pages
...claimed it. Again: " All the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Owen, Agassi2, Barrande, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists,...unanimously, often vehemently, maintained the immutability of fpecies. ... I feel how rash it is to differ from these great authorities. . . . Those who think the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 424 pages
...strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely Cuvier,...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species. But I have reason to believe that one great authority, Sir Charles Lyell, from further reflexion entertains... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 pages
...strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, E. Forbes, &c., and all our greatest geologists, as Lyell, Murchison, Sedgwick, &c., have unanimously, often vehemently,... | |
 | Daniel Jappah - 2007 - 428 pages
...strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, E. Forges, &c., and all our greatest geologists, as Lyell, Murchison, Sedgwick, &c., have unanimously,... | |
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... appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most... 
