 | Charles Daubeny - Earthquakes - 1848 - 824 pages
...occurred at the first commencement of organic life. Nevertheless, I may be permitted to observe thus much, namely, that analogy seems to favour the supposition...gradually over a certain area, rather than that the * Mr. Lyell proposes the following hypothesis, as being reconcilable with known facts, viz. "that each... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Science - 1849 - 344 pages
...favours the supposition that each species of plant was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradually over a certain area,...the manner we at present behold it. The human race rose from a single pair ; and the distribution of plants and animals over a certain definite area would... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - Botany - 1851 - 670 pages
...favours the supposition that each species of plant was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradually over a certain area,...the manner we at present behold it. The human race arose from a single pair, and the distribution of plants and animals over a certain definite area,... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - Asterolepididae - 1899 - 372 pages
...species of plant was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradu ally over a certain area, rather than that the earth was...the manner we at. present behold it. The human race rose from a single pair ; and the distribution of plants and animals over a certain definite area would... | |
 | Country life - 1851 - 618 pages
...favors the supposition that each species of plant was originally formed In some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradually over a certain area, rather than that the earth was at once, by the flat of the Almighty, covered with vegetation in the manner we at present behold it. The human race... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Asterolepis - 1853 - 348 pages
...supposition that each species of plant was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it.sproad itself gradually over a certain area, rather than that the earth was at once, by the fiat of Ike Almighty, covered with vegetation in the manner we at present, behold it. The human race rose from... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1853 - 814 pages
...there was at first only one centre of vegetation from which plants were distributed over the globe, rather than that the earth was at once, by the fiat of the Almighty, covered with it. It is now generally believed by botanists that each species of plant originated in, and was diffused... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - Agriculture - 1854 - 666 pages
...occurred at the first commencement of organic life. Nevertheless, I may be permitted to observe thus much, namely, that analogy seems to favour the supposition,...plant having been originally formed in one particular locality0, from whence it spread 94 LECTURE III. itself gradually over a certain area, rather than... | |
 | Geology - 1861 - 534 pages
...supposition that each species whether animal or vegetable was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradually over a certain area...the earth was at once, by the fiat of the Almighty, peopled as we at present behold it The majority of our best naturalists are inclined to accept the... | |
 | Geology - 1861 - 506 pages
...supposition that each species whether animal or vegetable was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradually over a certain area...the earth was at once, by the fiat of the Almighty, peopled as we at present behold it. The majority of our best naturalists are inclined to accept the... | |
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Daubeny says, that analogy favours the supposition that each species of plant was originally formed in some particular locality, whence it spread itself gradually over a certain area, rather than that the earth was at once, by the fiat of the Almighty,... 
