 | Clifton Fremont Hodge - 1903 - 538 страници
...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 other animals...the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. Earthworms burrow into the soil to a depth of from three to eight feet, making channels for water,... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1903 - 170 страници
...existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed, by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...the world as have these lowly -organized creatures." That charming naturalist, White of Selborne, from whom Mr. Darwin received his earliest inspiration... | |
 | Buel Preston Colton - 1903 - 400 страници
...that thus in long ages they have buried large rocks and ancient buildings. And his conclusion is that "it may be doubted whether there are many other animals...history of the world as have these lowly organized animals." In the United States earthworms are not so numerous. Harm done by Earthworms. — Earthworms... | |
 | Buel Preston Colton - 1903 - 622 страници
...that thus in long ages they have buried large rocks and ancient buildings. And his conclusion is that '-it may be doubted whether there are many other animals...history of the world as have these lowly organized animals." In the United States earthworms are not so numerous. Harm done by Earthworms. — Earthworms... | |
 | John Monteith, Caroline Monteith - 1903 - 252 страници
...no fruit, no animals of the land, and no men. " A great man, Mr. Darwin, says, ' It may be doubtful whether there are many other animals which have played...part in the history of the world as have these lowly creatures.' " 232 ELEMENTARY NATURE STUDY Abbott's A Boy on a Farm . . . .45 cents Two stories by Jacob... | |
 | 1906 - 670 страници
...the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but, long before he existed, the land was, in fact, regularly ploughed, and still continues to...important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly-organised creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organised — namely, corals... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - 1906 - 394 страници
...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 other animals...the world as have these lowly organized creatures. — Condensed from CHARLES DARWIN'S summary in his Vegetable Mould and Earth-Worms. THE ROMAN DOMUS... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - 1906 - 404 страници
...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 other animals...history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.—Condensed from CHARLES DARWIN'S summary in his Vegetable Mould and Earth-Worms. Key-sentence:... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 страници
...the earthworms not only with our wheat-supply but with our scenery. Well may we say, with Darwin : " It may be doubted whether there are many other animals...part in the history of the world as have these lowly organised creatures." Those who wish to understand Darwinism should always begin with Darwin's last... | |
 | Frederic Wood Jones - 1910 - 500 страници
...these winds, but their stay is brief. It is the northerly and westerly winds that bring the cyclones which have played so important a part in the history of the Ross settlement, and considering the extreme lowness of the islands, and the normal force of the wind... | |
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It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. 
