The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects

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J. Murray, 1877 - 300 Seiten
 

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Seite 5 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.
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Seite 166 - Angraecum has triumphed, for it flourishes and abounds in the forests of Madagascar, and still troubles each Moth to insert its proboscis as far as possible in order to drain the last drop of nectar We can thus,
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Seite 245 - Orchid was created, exactly as we now see it, on a certain " ideal type ; " that the Omnipotent Creator, having fixed on one plan for the whole Order, did not please to depart from this plan ; that He, therefore, made the same organ to perform diverse functions — often of trifling importance compared with their proper function — converted other organs into mere purposeless rudiments, and arranged all as if they had to stand separate, and then made them cohere ? Is it not a more simple and intelligible...
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Seite 284 - ... it. On the same principle, if a man were to make a machine for some special purpose, but were to use old wheels, springs, and pulleys, only slightly altered, the whole machine, with all its parts, might be said to be specially contrived for that purpose.
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