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"Look at that!" cried the portress, in a triumphant manner; "gammoned the citizen! know her name -- she is called D'Orbigny; my means were not bad, Mr. Rudolph?
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830
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D'Orbigny (tome i, 1 p. 184), in explaining the cause of the various colours of the rivers in South America, remarks that those with blue or clear water have their source in the Cordillera, where the snow melts.
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D'Orbigny (tome i, 1 p. 184), in explaining the cause of the various colours of the rivers in South America, remarks that those with blue or clear water have their source in the Cordillera, where the snow melts.
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D'Orbigny and others were mistaken in assuming that faunal differences have been introduced only in the last geological epochs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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American tribes, Robertson is quoted while D'Orbigny is passed in silence, even though he has by the testimony of many authors disproved the statements of Robertson; how Baegert's negative and sweeping statements in regard to the California tribes are accepted, while the very specific testimony of De Mofras in regard both to the fact and to the nature of their worship is rejected.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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Beaumont: we owe it to D'Orbigny, who first pointed out the importance of distinguishing the dislocations produced by gradual movements of the earth from those caused by mountain-upheavals.
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After a busy day, when these kites retire for their night-rest to a tree or to the bushes, they always gather in bands, sometimes coming together from distances of ten or more miles, and they often are joined by several other vultures, especially the percnopters, "their true friends," D'Orbigny says.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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D'Orbigny, who maintained that the life of the earth must have become extinct and again renewed twenty-seven times.
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His bust is to be seen on the same side of the Nouvelle Galerie in the Jardin des Plantes as those of Lamarck, Cuvier, De Blainville, and D'Orbigny.
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[281-1] D'Orbigny, _L'Homme Américain_, ii.p. 235.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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