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| Columbus Horticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio - 1891 - 366 pages
...long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by Earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many...the world as have these lowly organized creatures." On the publication of Mr. Darwin's studies on the Earthworm, in 1 88 1, there appeared in Puck, the... | |
| John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 pages
...vegetable mould appeared after about thirty years' observation in 1881 ; and now we all say with him, " It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly-organised creatures." Prof. Drummond, while admitting the supreme importance of the work of earthworms,... | |
| Church congress - 1892 - 682 pages
...published book, where he describes, to use his own words, "those lowly-organized creatures concerning whom it may be doubted whether there are many other animals...played so important a part in the history of the world" — without feeling how, animated by a love of truth, he was content patiently to accumulate facts,... | |
| ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...hard-bound, and void of fermentation; and consequently sterile.'—Gilbert White, 1777. ' It may l>e doubted whether there are many other animals which...important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly-organised creatures.'—Darwin, 1881. See Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the... | |
| James Clarke Welling - 1894 - 40 pages
...out in a scientific way the place which earthworms have in the economy of nature when he says that " it may be doubted whether there are many other animals...the world as have these lowly organized creatures."* Even protoplasm, at the point where we examine it with our microscopes, is found to possess certain... | |
| James Richard Cocke - 1894 - 396 pages
...This part of my subject will be a very difficult one for the lay reader to grasp, and hallucinations have played so important a part in the history of the world that it seems to me that the general public should have a better understanding of them. They do not... | |
| 1896 - 844 pages
...become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation ; and consequently sterile.' — Gilbert White, 1777. 'It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly-organised creatures.' — Darwin, 1881. See Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through... | |
| Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1897 - 306 pages
...inventions ; but, long before he existed, the land was, in fact, regularly ploughed by earth worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...the world as have these lowly organized creatures." BIRDS : Stray robins and bluebirds remain with us in Philadelphia all winter. In the latter part of... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1897 - 346 pages
...before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many...important , /a part in the history of the world, as have V ' these lowly organised creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organised, namely... | |
| Richard Lydekker, William Forsell Kirby, Bernard Barham Woodward, Randolph Kirkpatrick, Reginald Innes Pocock, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Walter Garstang, Francis Arthur Bather, Henry Meyners Bernard - 1897 - 800 pages
...compared their action to that of a plough, and adds that it is doubtful whether many other animals have played so important a part in the history of the world. Earth-worms are found in all parts of the world in spots suitable for their existence, and in some... | |
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