 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1882 - 584 pages
...Presented April 12, 1883. " PROBABLY there is scarcely a dash of color on the wing or body of an insect of which the choice would be quite arbitrary, or which...might not affect its duration for thousands of years." These words were written by Sir Charles Lyell in a letter to Sir John Herschel in 1836.* This letter,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 502 pages
...before us a small past at least of the circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided what powers and qualities a new species...thousands of years. I have been told that the leaf-like expansions of the abdomen and thighs of a certain Brazilian Mantis turn from green to yellow as autumn... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 670 pages
...would make it too strong, an occasional variety of the species may have this advantage conferred upon it ; or if this would be still too much, one sex of...thousands of years. I have been told that the leaf-like expansion of the abdomen and thighs of a certain Brazilian Mantis turn from green to yellow as autumn... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 780 pages
...would make it too strong, an occasional variety of the species may have this advantage conferred upon it ; or if this would be still too much, one sex of...for thousands of years. I have been told that the leaf -like expansion of the abdomen and thighs of a certain Brazilian Mantis turn from green to yellow... | |
 | 1882 - 904 pages
...this would be still too much, one sex of a certain variety. Probably there is scarcely a dash of color on the wing or body of which the choice would be quite...might not affect its duration for thousands of years. In some ways this is marvelously near Darwin ; but in others it differs toto coelo ; for Lyell does... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - 246 pages
...probable that it may be carried on through the intervention of intermediate causes. . . . An insect may be made in one of its transformations to resemble...might not affect its duration for thousands of years.' Now, this comes in some ways perilously near to Darwin indeed ; but in the most important point of... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 pages
...existence." He speaks of a species being rendered more prolific in order to perpetuate its existence; "but this would perhaps make it press too hard upon...might not affect its duration for thousands of years." The significance of the last sentence is immense, and when we reflect that this bold but cautious thinker... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1895 - 278 pages
...would make it too strong, an occasional variety of the species may have this advantage conferred upon it; or if this would be still too much, one sex of...body, of which the choice would be quite arbitrary, or what might not affect its duration for thousands of years. I have been told that the leaf-like expansions... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1895 - 236 pages
...scarcely a dash of colour on the wing or body, of which the choice would be quite arbitrary, or what might not affect its duration for thousands of years. I have been told that the leaf -like expansions of the abdomen and thighs of a certain Brazilian Mantis turn from green to yellow... | |
 | 1899 - 642 pages
...would make it too strong, an occasional variety of the species may have this advantage conferred upon it ; or, if this would be still too much, one sex...body of which the choice would be quite arbitrary, or what might not affect its duration for thousands of years. I have been told that the leaf-like expansions... | |
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... times. Now if it be an insect it may be made in one of its transformations to resemble a dead stick, or a leaf, or a lichen, or a stone, so as to be somewhat less easily found by its enemies ; or if this would make it too strong, an occasional variety... 
