I will give only a single instance, which, though a simple one, has interested me. In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation where I had ample means of investigation, there was a large and extremely barren heath, which had never been touched by the... The History of Allelopathy - Page 178by R.J. Willis - 2007 - 316 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| American essays - 1866 - 808 pages
...Darwin has the following passage touching the action of vegetable and animal life upon each other. "In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation where...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twentyfive years previously,... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to struggle together in the same country. I will give only a single instance, which, though...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty-five years previously... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to struggle together in the same country. I will give only a single instance, which, though...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same natureTiad beea- enclosed~ twenty -five years previously... | |
| George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...germinate and grow, after lying for generations in a state of suspended animation. Darwin says : " In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation, where...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man, but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty -five years previously... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...I will give only a single instance, which, though a simple one, interested me. In Staffordshire, OD the estate of a relation, where I had ample means...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred •ens of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty-five years previously... | |
| Horatius Flaccus - Biology - 1880 - 322 pages
...much in another, as the reader will see. He says : " In Staffordshire, on an estate of a relative, where I had ample means of investigation, there was...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty-five years before,... | |
| Edward Step - Botany - 1881 - 270 pages
...exclude the cattle from it induces great change : here is an instance oo narrated by Mr. Darwin : — " In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation, where...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres, of exactly the same nature, had been enclosed twenty-five years previously,... | |
| Edward Step - Botany - 1881 - 284 pages
...exclude the cattle from it induces great change : here is an instance narrated by Mr. Darwin : — " In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation, where...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres, of exactly the same nature, had been enclosed twenty-five years previously,... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 494 pages
...struggle together in the same country. I will give only a single instance, which, though a simple one, interested me. In Staffordshire, on the estate of...there was a large and extremely barren heath, which bad never been touched by the hand of man; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1883 - 494 pages
...struggle together in the same country. I will give only a single instance, which, though a simple one, interested me. In Staffordshire, on the estate of...heath, which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been enclosed twenty-five years previously... | |
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