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" In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest, which, as a living organized whole, the individual of such species has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that are ever tending to dissolve the vital bond and subjugate the living matter... "
The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 34
1859
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 196

1902 - 642 pages
...principle. In his account of the gigantic wingless bird of New Zealand Owen in 1850 wrote as follows : — ' In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which, as a living organised whole, the individual of such species has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 28

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1859 - 750 pages
...conditions of a country affecting the due supply in sustenance to animals in a state of nature, I have also pointed out the characters in the animals themselves...antiquity have remained. In proportion to its bulk ¡a the dificulty of the contest which, as a living organized whole, the individual of such species...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2, Issue 4; Volume 4

1859 - 552 pages
...conditions of a couutry affecting the due supply of sustenance to animals in a state of nature. I have also pointed out the characters in the animals themselves...extinct, whilst smaller species of equal antiquity have remaiued. In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which, as a living organized whole,...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2, Issue 4; Volume 4

1859 - 532 pages
...pointed out the characters in the animals themselves caleulated to render them most obnoxious to sneh extirpating influences ; and on one occasion I have...smaller species of equal antiquity have remained. ID proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which, as a living organized whole, the...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1859 - 478 pages
...conditions of a country affecting tho due supply of sustenance to animals in a state of nature. I have ulso pointed out the characters in the animals themselves calculated to render them most obuoxious to such extirpating influences : and on one oecasion I have applied the remarks to tho explanation...
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On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the M̲a̲m̲m̲a̲l̲i̲a̲ ...

Richard Owen - 1859 - 120 pages
...of particular groups have become extinct, whilst smaller species of equal antiquity have survived. In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which the animal has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that are ever tending to dissolve the vital...
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On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia: Being ...

Richard Owen - 1859 - 118 pages
...of particular groups have become extinct, whilst smaller species of equal antiquity have survived. In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which the animal has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that are ever tending to dissolve the vital...
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Maryland and Virginia Medical Journal, Volume 13

1859 - 554 pages
....species of particular groups have become extinct, while smaller species of equal antiquity have survived. In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which the animal has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that are ever tending to dissolve the vital...
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Palaeontology Or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their ...

Richard Owen - 1861 - 552 pages
...of particular groups have become extinct, whilst smaller species of equal antiquity have survived. In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of the contest which, as a living organism, the individual of such species has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that are...
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On the Anatomy of Vertebrates ...: Fishes and reptiles

Richard Owen - 1866 - 734 pages
...the animals themselves calculated to render them most obnoxious to such extirpating influences ; and have applied the remarks to the explanation of so...is the difficulty of the contest which, as a living organised whole, the individual of such species has to maintain against the surrounding agencies that...
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