Effects of external conditions -- Use and disuse, combined with natural selection; organs of flight and of vision -- Acclimatisation -- Correlation of growth -- Compensation and economy of growth -- False correlations -- Multiple,
rudimentary, and lowly organised structures variable -- Parts developed in an unusual manner are highly variable: specific characters more variable than generic: secondary sexual characters variable -- Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner -- Reversions to long lost characters -- Summary.
Some lichens lay upon the black rocks; some microscopic plants,
rudimentary diatomas, a kind of cells placed between two quartz shells; long purple and scarlet weed, supported on little swimming bladders, which the breaking of the waves brought to the shore.
In him were traces of the softening civilisation of ages--of some of the higher instincts and education of man, no matter how
rudimentary these might be.
They contend that no food is necessary, nor do they eat; but any one of the most
rudimentary intelligence must realize that food is a necessity to creatures having actual existence."
His skin was fair as a woman's, far more satiny, and no
rudimentary hair-growth marred its white lustre.
When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its
rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place.
When she held her, she sunk her
rudimentary nails into the poor girl's flesh, or twisted her arm in a most painful manner.
That afterglow has long faded away; and the picture we are apt to make of Methodism in our imagination is not an amphitheatre of green hills, or the deep shade of broad-leaved sycamores, where a crowd of rough men and weary-hearted women drank in a faith which was a
rudimentary culture, which linked their thoughts with the past, lifted their imagination above the sordid details of their own narrow lives, and suffused their souls with the sense of a pitying, loving, infinite Presence, sweet as summer to the houseless needy.
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a
rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet.
What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our
rudimentary civilization, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!
There are
rudimentary bow-windows, cornices, chimneys, demarcations of stories, etc.
Some private individual -- a Pentagon whose name is variously reported -- having casually discovered the constituents of the simpler colours and a
rudimentary method of painting, is said to have begun decorating first his house, then his slaves, then his Father, his Sons, and Grandsons, lastly himself.