On the disguises of nature : being an inquiry into the laws which regulate external form and colour in plants and animals / by Andrew Murray.

  • Murray, Andrew
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the disguises of nature : being an inquiry into the laws which regulate external form and colour in plants and animals / by Andrew Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and many which, although we cannot nominate, we yet are sensible of. Most men have some idea of their own of the general character of the different continents—something in- describable, but which yet associates well, in their ideas, with the plants and animals which they know to inhabit them. The essential element of some such inappreciable character may be that which, communicated to the whole animal and vegetable creatures of a continent, gives them that general empirical resemblance which we admit, but cannot embody in words or explain to another.
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