Word: archipelago
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...have spent the summer, from part of a submerged mountain chain from Alaska to Kamchatka, and glacial action has so deepended the valleys that the result is called a sea of mountains. Owing to the prevalence of gales and the danger of the coasts, ships have rarely visited the archipelago. The islands are destitute of trees, but are covered with a thick growth of herbage. The climate is foggy but free from extremes...
...Museum has received a valuable collection of implements and weapons from a number of the islands in the Pacific. The collection was obtained by a sea captain many years ago from a German on one of the Marshall Island. It came originally from the islands of the New Britain Archipelago, Melonnesia...
...DAILY CRIMSON: There appeared in your columns yesterday an article, entitled "Some Interesting Facts about Darwin and the Origin of Species." The "facts" are interesting. The writer says: "When Darwin was beginning to develop his theory, he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago." Now, Wallace was in the Malay Archipelago, and, as I shall show, Darwin was not beginning to develop his theory, but had matured it already some years back. In 1837, Darwin sketched out a MS., which he copied in 1844, when the copy was read by Dr. Hooker, who communicated...
...work is now nearly finished; but as it will take me many more years to complete it, and as my health is far from strong, I have more especially been induced to do this as Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural history of the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at almost the same general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. In 1858 he sent me a memoir on this subject with a request that I would forward it to Sir Charles Lyell, who sent it to the Linnean Society, and it is published in the third...
...Philosophy courses, as showing how an observance of economic laws often lead to the discovery of natural laws as well as vice versa. When Darwin was just beginning to develop his theory of species he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago. Wallace told him (accompanying this letter was an essay, which Wallace told him contained a new theory on which he [Wallace] wrote) that as the essay was one which contained a new theory on which his thoughts had of late been running, he asked Darwin's advice as to its publication. Mr. Wallace...