I can only compare these great aquatic forests of the southern hemisphere with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest was destroyed, I do not believe nearly so many species of animals would perish as would here... The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Side 4041841Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1871 - 624 sider
...number of living creatures of all orders, whose existence intimately depends on the kelp, is wonderful. I can only compare these great aquatic forests of...terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest were destroyed, I do not believe nearly so many species of animals would perish,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1876 - 586 sider
...Flustraceffi, and some compound Ascidise ; the latter, however, are of different species from those in Tierra del Fuego : we here see the fucus possessing a wider...forests of the southern hemisphere, with the terrestrial uiiL's in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest was destroyed, I do not believe... | |
| Edward Step - 1881 - 284 sider
...height, and pass into smooth water." And a little further on in his interesting narrative, he says : " I can only compare these great aquatic forests of...the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions." The only other example of the Melanospermece we are able to find room for is the beautiful Peacock's... | |
| Edward Step - 1881 - 270 sider
...height, and pass into smooth water." And a little further on in his interesting narrative, he says: "I can only compare these great aquatic forests of...the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions." The only other example of the Melanospcrmece we are able to find room for is the beautiful Peacock's... | |
| 1884 - 530 sider
...as I recurred to the kelp, I never failed to discover animals of new and curious structures. ****** I can only compare these great aquatic forests of the Southern Hemisphere with the terrestrial ones (if the intcrtropical regions. Vet, if in any country a forest were destroyed, I do not believe so... | |
| J. Wesley Van Dervoort - 1886 - 530 sider
...recurred to a branch of the kelp, I never failed to discover animals of new and curious structures. I can only compare these great aquatic forests of...terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest were destroyed, I do not believe nearly so many species of animals would perish... | |
| John William Marsh, W.H. Stirling - 1887 - 212 sider
...wonderful. A great volume might be written describing the inhabitants of one of these beds of sea-weed. I can only compare these great aquatic forests of...terrestrial ones in the inter-tropical regions. Yet, if in any country a forest was destroyed, I do not believe that nearly so many species of animals would... | |
| Addison Peale Russell - 1887 - 272 sider
...being wrecked. Three hundred and sixty feet is the length it had been known to attain. He compared the great aquatic forests of the southern hemisphere with...the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions, and said that if in any country a forest was destroyed, he believed not nearly so many species of animals... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 sider
...Flustracea;, and some compound Ascidite : the latter, however, are of different species from those in Tierra del Fuego. We here see the Fucus possessing a wider...terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest was destroyed, I do not believe nearly so many species of animals would perish... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 sider
...Flustracete, and some compound Ascidiae ; the latter, however, are of different species from those in Tierra del Fuego : we here see the fucus possessing a wider...aquatic forests of the southern hemisphere, with the terrestria.' ones in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest was destroyed, I do... | |
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