 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...first edition (p. 461) without comment. Whereas in the second edition (p. 380) he concludes :— " One might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this Archipelago, one species has been taken and modified for different ends/' On the whole it seems to me remarkable that the difference... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...first edition (p. 461) without comment. Whereas in the second edition (p. 380) he concludes : — " One might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this Archipelago, one species has been taken and modified for different ends." On the whole it seems to me remarkable that the difference... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...first. edition (p. 461) without comment. Whereas in the second edition (p. 380) he concludes : — " One might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this Archipelago, one species has been taken and modified for different ends." On the whole it seems to me remarkable that the difference... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...first edition (p. 461) without comment. Whereas in the second edition (p. 380) he concludes : — " One might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this Archipelago, one species has been taken and modified for different ends." On the whole it seems to me remarkable that the difference... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1890 - 440 pages
...of their numbers;" and it is by reason of these numbers that " one might really fancy," he says, " that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago,...species had been taken and modified for different ends." Now, in these four finch heads we have what, in the mind of Mr. Darwin, was the motive and the generative... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1890 - 440 pages
...of their numbers ; " and it is by reason of these numbers that " one might really fancy," he says, " that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago,...species had been taken and modified for different ends." Now, in these four finch heads we have what, in the mind of Mr. Darwin, was the motive and the generative... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...first edition (p. 461) without comment. Whereas in the second edition (p. 380) he concludes : — " One might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this Archipelago, one species has been taken and modified for different ends." On the whole it seems to me remarkable that the difference... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1908 - 542 pages
...like that of a starling; and that of the fourth sub-group, Camarhynchus, is slightly parrot-shaped. Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in...might really fancy that from an original paucity of i. Geospiza magnirostris. 3. Geospiza parvula. 2. Geospiza fortis. 4. Certhidea olivacea. birds in... | |
 | East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society - Natural history - 1921 - 500 pages
...forming such a nicely graded series in such matters as the size of the beak that, as Darwin wrote, " one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archiplago one species had been taken and modified for different ends." Even more striking than the... | |
 | George Gilmore Scott - Biology - 1925 - 646 pages
...since the separation from the mainland and the formation of the archipelago of islands. Darwin says: "Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure...small intimately related group of birds, one might reslly fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken... | |
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Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. 
