 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1916 - 430 pages
...much impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, " that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this wonderful relationship in the same continent...Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see the same law in this author's restorations of... | |
 | John Burroughs - Authors, American - 1922 - 318 pages
...peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and so on, and the living species of these animals; and he adds that the wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living would doubtless hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth, and their... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Science - 1925 - 492 pages
...those between the fossil and the living species of South American rodents. This moved him to write : " This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1895 - 1140 pages
...between the present fauna and the past fauna found fossil: though different, they are near akin. It was ' thi.s wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living ' which especially forced on Mr. Darwin the belief in descent with modification : this relationship... | |
 | Clyde Martin Christensen - Science - 277 pages
...recognized as the ancestors of some of the present-day animals peculiar to South America. He wrote, "This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...peccaries, guanacos, opossums, and numerous South American gnawers and monkeys, and other animals. This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth,... | |
 | David Amigoni - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 12 pages
...found in the fields of Patagonia (9 January 1834), Darwin had added a sentence drawing attention to the 'wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living . . . [which] will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1903 - 432 pages
...impressed with these facts," says Mr. Darwin, " that I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on tms wonderful relationship in the same continent between...Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalization to the mammals of the Old World. We see the same law in this author's restorations of... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1895 - 1140 pages
...between the present fauna and the past fauna found fossil: though different, they are near akin. It was 'this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living ' which especially forced on Mr. Darwin the belief in descent with modification : this relationship... | |
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I strongly insisted, in 1839 and 1845, on this " law of the succession of types,"—on " this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living." Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalisation to the mammals... 
