[On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart]@TWC D-Link bookOn the Genesis of Species CHAPTER XII 40/116
It contains zoology, or the science of animals, and botany, or that of plants. [5] For very interesting examples, see Mr.Wallace's "Malay Archipelago." [6] See Mueller's work, "Fuer Darwin," lately translated into English by Mr. Dallas.
Mr.Wallace also predicts the discovery, in Madagascar, of a hawk-moth with an enormously long proboscis, and he does this on account of the discovery there of an orchid with a nectary from ten to fourteen inches in length.
See _Quarterly Journal of Science_, October 1867, and "Natural Selection," p.
275. [7] "Lectures on Man," translated by the Anthropological Society, 1864, p. 229. [8] Ibid.p.
378. [9] See Fifth Edition, 1869, p.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|