... conditions
—Importance of barriers—Affinity of the
productions of the same continent—
Centres of creation Means of dispersal,
by changes of climate and of the level of
the land, and by occasional means
Dispersal ... varieties; on their number—
On the vast lapse of time, as inferred from
the rate of deposition and of denudation—
On the poorness...
... any point of the
plate.
Let us take the base as the axis of X and one end of the base as the origin.
Then to solve the problem we are to find the temperature u of any point from
the equation
D
2
x
u ... form of considerable importance in the consideration of the problem of the
cooling of the earth’s crust.
In the problem of the permanent state o...
... or were
they insignia of authority? The food of the
visited by the members of the Challenger
expedition in September and October,
1874, but the only additional species then
obtained was Monarcha ... allusions to the
birds which were seen in the course of it
by the great discoverer. In this respect the
roteiro of the first voyage of Vasco da
Gama resembles...
... partly on account of them, the
&apos ;Origin of Species& apos; is by no means an easy
book to read—if by reading is implied the
species, for they are descended from a
common stock, the rock-pigeon.
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... emerged.
But, once originated, the conception of the
constancy of the order of Nature has
become the dominant idea of modern
thought. To any person who is familiar
with the facts upon which that conception
is ... was
signalised by the apparition of the sun, the
stars, the moon, and the planets; that, on
the fifth day, aquatic animals originated
within the...
... auto-
mobile, of which we had heard so many rumours, was actually in
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Lingering near the window I saw Lady Vale-Avon go to Mon-
ica, and hold the girl by the hand while she talked with Carmon...
... dividend
by the coefficient of the divisor for the coefficient of the quotient, subtract the
exponent of each letter in the divisor from the exponent of the same letter in the
dividend for the exponent of ... and the rep-
resentation of numbers by letters. The solution of problems is one of the most
valuable portions of the work, in that it serves...
... farther side of the
plane of projection.
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... packed their lunch-box. The last
minute, they ran across the street to tell
their playmates good -by. When they came
back, Daddy had brought the car to the
front of the house and was carrying out the
little ... the hive. Drone
bees cannot sting; and they will not work
—they are lazy fellows. In the fall they are
all killed, so that during the long winter
months they cannot...