 | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 726 pages
...stated that CD 'appears to me to have succeeded, by his investigations and reasonings, in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected...distribution, and geological succession of organic beings, for wh1ch no other hypothesis has been able, or has even attempted, to account.' (Atlienaum, 24 September... | |
 | Thomas F. Glick - Science - 1988 - 536 pages
...according to Lyell, "appears to me to have succeeded, by his investigations and reasonings, in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected...hypothesis has been able, or has even attempted, to account."12 Lyell gave full support to Darwin's conclusion that the powers of nature that give rise... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 288 pages
...Lyell stated that CD appeared 'to have succeeded, by his investigations and reasonings, in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected...has been able, or has even attempted, to account.' (Athen<rt1m, 24 September 1859, p. 404). 4 CD finished reading proofs of Origin on 1 October 1859,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 2008 - 29 pages
...Lyell stated that CD appeared 'to have succeeded, by his investigations and reasonings, in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected...has been able, or has even attempted, to account' (Athm&um, 24 September 1859, p. 404). * CD finished reading proofs of Origin on i October 1859, and... | |
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... give rise to races and permanent varieties in animals and plants, are the same as those which in much longer periods produce species, and in a still longer series of ages give rise to differences of generic rank. He appears to me to have succeeded... 
