By Victoria Charles
Reflecting their owner’s flavor and serving as a powerful exhibition room for his or her viewers, cupboards of curiosities have been a spot of curiosity within the homes of the rich within the sixteenth an seventeenth centuries.
Rare vegetable and animal species, fossils, these cupboards have been constantly devoted to technology and data. via accumulating the main unusual and lovely issues nature ever produced, wealthy noblemen have been capable of construct a microcosm expressing the variety of God’s creation.
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42 43 from their common antitype as to differ in many important points of structure, while they still preserve a family resemblance. We thus see how difficult it is to determine in every case whether a given relation is an analogy or an affinity, for it is evident that as we go back along the parallel or divergent series, towards the common antitype, the analogy which existed between the two groups becomes an affinity. We are also made aware of the difficulty of arriving at a true classification, 1-2 Colotis sp.
In other words, no group or species has come into existence twice. Sterna forsteri, Sterna trudeaui Forster’s Tern and Trudeau’s Tern (Gulls) Plate 409 from Audubon’s Birds of America 32 33 10. The following law may be deduced from these facts: Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. This law agrees with, explains and illustrates all the facts connected with the following branches of the subject. 1) the system of natural affinities.
38 39 independently formed on the plan of a common antitype, then the series of affinities will be compound, and can only be represented by a forked or manybranched line. Now, all attempts at a Natural classification and arrangement of organic beings show, that both these plans have obtained in creation. ), 1734-1765. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, La Haye. 40 41 so to continue. There constantly occur two or more modifications of an organ or modifications of two distinct organs, leading us on to two distinct series of species, which at length differ so much from each other as to form distinct genera or families.