The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... land washes badly . Yet others are stony . Some retain moisture and may be heavy and cold . Others per- mit rapid evaporation and are light and warm . What- ever be the soil , the wise farmer knows the wisdom of using the crops adapted ...
... land washes badly . Yet others are stony . Some retain moisture and may be heavy and cold . Others per- mit rapid evaporation and are light and warm . What- ever be the soil , the wise farmer knows the wisdom of using the crops adapted ...
الصفحة 15
... we do not change their nature . With the advent of cold weather we must take them indoors or let them perish . This succession of the seasons produces less effect upon the temperature of the ocean than on land as may EARTH AND MAN 15.
... we do not change their nature . With the advent of cold weather we must take them indoors or let them perish . This succession of the seasons produces less effect upon the temperature of the ocean than on land as may EARTH AND MAN 15.
الصفحة 16
... land only 2.7 ° . The ocean climate , therefore , changes less from day to day and its extremes are less . The tem- perature in large bodies of water varies to some extent with the depth . The temperature in Lake Michigan at the surface ...
... land only 2.7 ° . The ocean climate , therefore , changes less from day to day and its extremes are less . The tem- perature in large bodies of water varies to some extent with the depth . The temperature in Lake Michigan at the surface ...
الصفحة 21
... land cultivated . Indeed , the disappearance of the great hordes of horses that once inhabited North America long before the advent of man is best explained on the basis of some disease ; and it is interesting to note that fossil flies ...
... land cultivated . Indeed , the disappearance of the great hordes of horses that once inhabited North America long before the advent of man is best explained on the basis of some disease ; and it is interesting to note that fossil flies ...
الصفحة 29
... land can be culti- vated and the same is true of Japan . In Norway 67 per cent of the total area is in bare mountains , lakes , snow fields or bogs , 7.6 per cent in pastures , 2.2 per cent in meadows and 7 per cent in grain fields ...
... land can be culti- vated and the same is true of Japan . In Norway 67 per cent of the total area is in bare mountains , lakes , snow fields or bogs , 7.6 per cent in pastures , 2.2 per cent in meadows and 7 per cent in grain fields ...
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الصفحة 155 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 139 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 58 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
الصفحة 139 - In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would...
الصفحة 54 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
الصفحة 186 - The two parents between them contribute on the average onehalf of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing onequarter of it. The four grandparents contribute between them one-quarter, or each of them one-sixteenth ; and so on, the sum of the series i + J + i + TV + , being equal to 1, as it should be.
الصفحة 126 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
الصفحة 58 - I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
الصفحة 159 - I can conceive in biology would be the discovery of the instability which leads to the continual division of the cell. When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
الصفحة 58 - I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2,290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one.