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The Burgess Bird Book for ChildrenThe Burgess Bird Book for Children This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children....
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Volcanic IslandsVolcanic Islands The preparation of the series of works published under the general title Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle occupied a great part of Darwins time during the ten years that followed his return to England. The second volume of the series,...
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Wild Animals I Have KnownWild Animals I Have Known THESE STORIES are true. Although I have left the strict line of historical truth in many places, the animals in this book were all real characters. They lived the lives I have depicted, and showed the stamp of heroism...
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Wild FlowersWild Flowers - An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect VisitorsSurely a foreword of explanation is called for from one who has the temerity to offer a surfeited public still another book on wild flowers. Inasmuch as science has proved...
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YeastYeast I HAVE selected to-night the particular subject of Yeast for two reasonsor, rather, I should say for three. In the first place, because it is one of the simplest and the most familiar objects with which we are acquainted. In the second place,...
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William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the BloodWilliam Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours of a very noble EnglishmanWilliam Harvey. William Harvey was born in the year 1578, and as he lived until...
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Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of LifeGeological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life MERCHANTS occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and not always satisfactory, process which they term "taking stock." After all the excitement of speculation, the pleasure of gain, and the pain of loss, the trader makes up...
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Coral and Coral ReefsCoral and Coral Reefs THE subject upon which I wish to address you to-night is the structure and origin of Coral and Coral Reefs. Under the head of "coral" there are included two very different things; one of them is that substance which I...
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On the Study of ZoologyOn the Study of Zoology NATURAL HISTORY is the name familiarly applied to the study of the properties of such natural bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the sciences which embody the knowledge man has acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed Natural Sciences,...
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On the Advisableness of Improving Natural KnowledgeOn the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge This time two hundred years agoin the beginning of January, 1666those of our forefathers who inhabited this great and ancient city, took breath between the shocks of two fearful calamities: one not quite past, although its fury...
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On Some Fossil Remains of ManOn Some Fossil Remains of Man Fig. 23.the Skull from the Cave of Engisviewed From The Right Side. 'a' Glabella, 'b' Occipital Protuberance, ('a' to 'b' Glabello-occipital Line), 'c' Auditory Foramen. Fig. 25.the Skull from the Neanderthal Cavern. A. Side, B. Front, and C....
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On the Relations of Man to the Lower AnimalsOn the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Fig. 13.a. Egg of the Dog, With The Vitelline Membrane Burst, So As to Give Exit To the Yelk, The Germinal Vesicle (a), And Its Included Spot (b). B. C. D. E F. Successive Changes...
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The Origin of SpeciesThe Origin of Species - From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860 MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet...
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Evidence as to Man's Place in NatureEvidence as to Man's Place in Nature Skeletons of the GIBBON. ORANG. CHIMPANZEE. GORILLA. MAN. 'Photographically reduced from Diagrams of the natural size (except that of the Gibbon, which was twice as large as nature), drawn by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins from specimens in the...
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Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"Criticisms on "The Origin of Species" - From 'The Natural History Review', 1864 In the course of the present year several foreign commentaries upon Mr. Darwin's great work have made their appearance. Those who have perused that remarkable chapter of the 'Antiquity of Man,'...
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The Darwinian HypothesisThe Darwinian Hypothesis THERE is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which no human thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from the results which science brings us home and securely harvests, there is an expansive force and latitude...
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Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species"Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species" Everyone knows that that superficial film of the earths substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of stone, the consolidated muds and...
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The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living BeingsThe Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings - Lecture V. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species" IN the last Lecture I endeavoured to prove to you that,...
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A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic NatureA Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature - Lecture VI. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical...
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The Present Condition of Organic NatureThe Present Condition of Organic Nature - Lecture I. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species" Figure 3. (diagram Showing Material Relationship of The Vegetable, Animal and Inorganic Worlds.) Of the great...
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