 | 1869 - 542 pagina’s
...physically alike, they differ widely in a zoological point of view, and " Australia with its dry winds, its stony deserts, and its temperate climate, yet...which are closely related to those inhabiting the hot, clamp, luxurious forests which everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea." Mr. Wallace's... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1870 - 528 pagina’s
...tend to assimilate the forms of life, which would seem to bear at least remotely against his theory : Nowhere does the ancient doctrine, — that differences...everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea. He has a great aversion to the theological doctrine that all things are made for man, and loses no... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - 1875 - 372 pagina’s
...the main physical or climatal divisions of the surface." We will further quote only the following : " Borneo and New Guinea, as alike physically as two...everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea." Wallace gives the most specific proofs that, as the parts of this Archipelago approach one another... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - 1875 - 362 pagina’s
...the main physical or climatal divisions of the surface." We will further quote only the following : " Borneo and New Guinea, as alike physically as two...everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea/' Wallace gives the most specific proofs that, as the parts of this Archipelago approach one another... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) - 1875 - 376 pagina’s
...the following : " Borneo and New Guinea, as alike physically as two distinct countries can be, are r zoologically wide as the poles asunder ; while Australia,...everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea." Wallace gives the most specific proofs that, as the parts of this Archipelago approach one another... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 440 pagina’s
...the animal productions Borneo and New Guinea, alike physically, are zoologically wide as the poles ; while Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate clime, yet produces birds and quadrupeds, which are closely related to those in the hot, damp, luxuriant... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 444 pagina’s
...the animal productions Borneo and New Guinea, alike physically, are zoologically wide as the poles ; while Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate clime, yet produces birds and quadrupeds, which are closely related to those in the hot, damp, luxuriant... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - 1877 - 502 pagina’s
...close a resemblance to Australia and New Guinea as the Western Islands do to Asia." And again — " Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate climate, produces birds ahd quadrupeds which are closely related to those inhabiting the hot damp luxuriant... | |
 | 1878 - 540 pagina’s
...close a. resemblance to Australia and New Guinea as the Western Islands do to Asia." And again — " Australia, with its dry winds, its open plains, its stony deserts, and its temperate climate, produces birds and quadrupeds which are closely related to those inhabiting the hot damp luxuriant... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 286 pagina’s
...contradiction. Borneo and New Guinea, as alike physically as two distinct countries can be, are zoologically as wide as the poles asunder; while Australia, with its...everywhere clothe the plains and mountains of New Guinea.' That is, we have like living things in the most dissimilar situations, and unlike living things in... | |
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Nowhere does the ancient doctrine that differences or similarities in the various forms of life that inhabit different countries are due to corresponding physical differences or similarities in the countries themselves, meet with so direct and palpable... 
