| Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 502 pages
...a librarian to publish one volume for nothing. He is also publishing another edition of his ' Rogue Animal,' and other things. He has been very obliging...osteology, in another law books ! &c. &c. When he is engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety of authors, he has a stove shifted... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 670 pages
...the great naturalist's method of organising his work : — " I got into Cuvier's sanctum sanctoium yesterday, and it is truly characteristic of the man....osteology, in another law books ! &c., &c. When he is engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety of authors, he has a stove shifted... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 780 pages
...about the great naturalist's method of organising his work : — " I got into Cuvier's sanctum sanctomm yesterday, and it is truly characteristic of the man....osteology, in another law books ! &c., &c. When he is engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety of authors, he has a stove shifted... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 646 pages
...tbe great naturalist's method of organising his work : — " I got into Cuvier's sanctum sanctotiim yesterday, and it is truly characteristic of the man....all on ichthyology, in another osteology, in another ¡aw books ! &c., &e. When he is engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety... | |
| 1882 - 904 pages
...performs annually without appearing to give himself the least trouble. But, before I introduce you to his study, I should tell you that there is first the museum...ichthyology, in another osteology, in another law books (!) etc., etc. When he is engaged in sucli works as require continual reference to a variety of authors,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 496 pages
...volumes on fish, and eight more will appear in two years. He has received between 2,0001. and 2,2001. for it, whereas no other person in Paris could persuade...osteology, in another law books ! &c. &c. When he ia engaged in such works as require continual reference to a variety of authors, he has a stove shifted... | |
| Stephen Jay Gould - 2007 - 684 pages
...prodigious feats which he performs annually without appearing to give himself the least trouble. . . . There is first the museum of natural history opposite...ichthyology, in another osteology, in another law books! etc., etc. . . . The ordinary studio contains no bookshelves. It is a longish room, comfortably furnished,... | |
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