Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation, Bind 2J. Murray, 1833 - 511 sider |
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Side ix
... circumstances which constitute the stations of animals are changeable -Extension of the range of one species alters the condition of others - Sup- posed effects which may have followed the first entrance of the Polar bears into Iceland ...
... circumstances which constitute the stations of animals are changeable -Extension of the range of one species alters the condition of others - Sup- posed effects which may have followed the first entrance of the Polar bears into Iceland ...
Side x
... circumstance— On the remains of works of art included in alluvial deposits - Imbedding of organic bodies and human remains in blown sand - Temple of Ipsambul on the Nile - Dried carcasses of animals buried in the sands of the African ...
... circumstance— On the remains of works of art included in alluvial deposits - Imbedding of organic bodies and human remains in blown sand - Temple of Ipsambul on the Nile - Dried carcasses of animals buried in the sands of the African ...
Side xi
... Circumstances under which human corpses may be preserved under a great thickness of recent deposits - Number of wrecked vessels - Durable character of many of their contents - Examples of fossil skeletons of men - Of fossil canoes ...
... Circumstances under which human corpses may be preserved under a great thickness of recent deposits - Number of wrecked vessels - Durable character of many of their contents - Examples of fossil skeletons of men - Of fossil canoes ...
Side 2
... circumstances , and the characters , say they , of the descendants of common parents may deviate indefinitely from their original type . Res Now , if these doctrines be tenable , we are at once presented with a principle of incessant ...
... circumstances , and the characters , say they , of the descendants of common parents may deviate indefinitely from their original type . Res Now , if these doctrines be tenable , we are at once presented with a principle of incessant ...
Side 5
... circumstances , distinctions are brought about in them which become in some degree essential to their existence . In a word , at the end of many successive genera- tions , these individuals , which originally belonged to another species ...
... circumstances , distinctions are brought about in them which become in some degree essential to their existence . In a word , at the end of many successive genera- tions , these individuals , which originally belonged to another species ...
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