 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - 284 pages
...introduction to his Origin of Species : When on board II. MS " Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
 | George Hodges - 1894 - 302 pages
...begins with this significant paragraph: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapter of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries,... | |
 | Willis Linn Jepson - 1895 - 228 pages
...Origin ' commences are these words : ' When on board HMS "Beagle" as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America.' But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who has not served a tolerably long apprenticeship... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1895 - 1164 pages
...Origin ' commences are these words: ' When on board HMS " Beagle " as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America.' But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who has not served a tolerably long apprenticeship... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 pages
...1860. ORIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 pages
...1860. OBIGIN OF SPECIES. INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board HMS ' Beagle,' as naturalist, I waa much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 pages
...the "Origin" commences are these words: "When on board HMS Reagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America." But this sort of vein is not struck at hazard or by him who has 7iot served a tolerably long apprenticeship... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 454 pages
...his plan of work in the following words: "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seem to throw some light on the origin of species, that mystery of mysteries,... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 448 pages
...his plan of work in the following words : "When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South •l"u" s America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent.... | |
 | 1901 - 486 pages
...quite differently. Mr. Darwin begins:— "When on board HMS BEAGLE, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic...volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On... | |
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These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. 
