admin | December 29, 2010
The same number of joints in the tarsi is a character generally common to very large groups of beetles, but in the Engidse, as Westwood has remarked, the number varies greatly; and the number likewise differs in the two sexes of the same species: again in fossorial hymenoptera, the manner of neuration of the wings [...]
admin | December 28, 2010
As Mr. Fawcett has well asked, what would be thought of a man who argued that, be¬cause he could show that Mont Blanc and the other Alpine peaks had exactly the same height 3000 years ago as at present, consequently that these mountains had never been slowly upraised, and that the height of other mountains [...]
admin | December 27, 2010
On the belief that this is a law of nature, we can, I think, understand several large classes of facts, such as the following, which on any other view are inexplicable. Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multi¬tude of flowers have their anthers [...]
admin | December 26, 2010
The only difference between organisms which annually produce eggs or seeds by the thousand, and those which produce extremely few, is, that the slow-breeders would require a few more years to people, under favourable conditions, a whole district, let it be ever so large. The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a [...]
admin | December 24, 2010
The common goose has not given rise to any marked varieties; hence the Toulouse and the common breed, which differ only in colour, that most fleeting of characters, have lately been exhibited as distinct at our poultry-shows. I think these views further explain what has sometimes been noticed—namely, that we know nothing about the origin [...]
admin | December 23, 2010
I cannot, however, let this opportunity pass without expressing my deep obligations to Dr. Hooker, who for the last fifteen years has aided me in every possible way by his large stores of knowledge and his excellent judgment. In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite con¬ceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual [...]
admin | December 22, 2010
And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, Sinecure: The original meaning of this word (signifying, from the Latin, without care) is a benefice, or church living, without the cure or care of souls an ecclesiastical place and revenue, without corresponding and appropriate labors. To make Gods work [...]
admin | December 21, 2010
In the crowd that filled the large church, there was observable some curiosity, and a quiet air of enjoyment, but very little devotion. After the service, as the Popes carriage on leaving the square passed close by me, an elderly man at my side dropped suddenly on his knees, shouting, “Santo Padre, la benedizione,” which [...]
admin | December 20, 2010
Moss, a few stunted shrubs, and a long dry grass, are all the vegetation visible. The river itself is peculiarly beautiful, winding along through deep green banks of mossy softness, and lined with numerous flowering shrubs, which furnish food for quantities of the most beautiful humming¬birds, whose airy gambols I have watched for hours together [...]
admin | December 19, 2010
THE changes effected in judicial costume during the Com¬monwealth, like the reformation introduced at the same period into the language of the law, were all reversed in 1660, when Charles II.s judges resumed the attire and usages of their predecessors in the First Charless reign. When he had satisfied himself that monarchical principles were sure [...]
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