"The smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable, though less so when it has newly fallen from the tree…"

"The powerful retractile talons of the falcon- and the cat-tribes have not been produced or increased by the volition …"

"I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almos…"

"On the question of the "origin of species" Mr. Haughton enlarges considerably; but his chief arguments are reduced to…"

"I have carefully measured the proboscis of a specimen of [Neococytius] cluentius from South America in the collection…"

"In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the gr…"

"He [the naturalist] looks upon every species of animal and plant now living as the individual letters which go to mak…"

"While upon the subject of plants I may here mention a few of the more striking vegetable productions of Borneo. The w…"

"I thought of the long ages of the past, during which the successive generations of this little creature had run their…"

"We permit absolute possession of the soil of our country, with no legal rights of existence on the soil to the vast m…"