American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of BiologyD. Appleton, 1877 - 164 páginas |
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acquainted anatomy Anchitherium animal and vegetable animals and plants appearance APPLETON Archaeopteryx biologists Bond Street called Carboniferous character circumstantial evidence Cloth Compsognathus Cretaceous crocodile deal definite deposits digits distinct doctrine of evolution earth elementary Eocene epoch equine ERNST HAECKEL examination existing birds fact favour fibula fingers formations fossils geological grinders groups Hesperornis hind limbs Hipparion horse human hypothesis of evolution Ichthyornis important JOSEPH LE CONTE kind of evidence knowledge lectures legs living lizards lower end means medical education mental Mesozoic metatarsal bones mind Miocene modifications museums Natural History Ornithoscelida Orohippus Palæotherium physical physiology Pliocene possessed practical present day Protohippus pterodactyles question racter remains reptiles respects rudiment scientific scorpions skeleton species stratified rocks structure student STUDY OF BIOLOGY T. H. HUXLEY teeth terrestrial animals Tertiary things tibia tion toes true truth ulna whole word
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Página 9 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane ; the ounce. The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw In hillocks : the swift stag from under ground Bore up his branching head...
Página 100 - Huxley was right when he said that "a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Página 3 - ... into the infinite past, and in denying, absolutely, that there may have been a time when Nature did not follow a fixed order, when the relations of cause and effect were not definite, and when extra-natural agencies interfered with the general course of Nature".