One of the sights of Brisbane is the Garden of the Acclimatisation Society--a body supported partly by private subscription and partly by Government endowment.
How much of the acclimatisation of species to any peculiar climate is due to mere habit, and how much to the natural selection of varieties having different innate constitutions, and how much to both means combined, is a very obscure question.
With plants propagated by seed, and with animals, there will be little or no acclimatisation unless the hardier individuals are either intentionally or unconsciously preserved.
Hence a larger field is open for inquiry in regard to the acclimatisation of plants than of animals.
How much influence ought to be attributed to inherited habit or custom in the acclimatisationof animals and plants is a much more difficult question.
Nevertheless the fact of the vine not having spread northward shows that acclimatisationhas made no progress during several centuries.
We have seen that according to Labat the vine and wheat requireacclimatisation in order to succeed in the West Indies.
In both these cases the power of acclimatisation by man consists simply in the selection and preservation of new varieties.
We will now consider the means by which acclimatisation may be effected, namely, through the spontaneous appearance of varieties having a different constitution, and through the effects of use or habit.
This was unfortunate, as this species is one of those whoseacclimatisation in Europe is the most to be desired, for it would render great service to the cultivators of silk.
Every one has heard of the Ailanthus silkworm (Attacus [Bombyx] Cynthia), whose acclimatisation in Europe has been materially assisted by the admirable and persevering efforts of M.
But Central South Africa affords a magnificent field for the introduction and acclimatisation of the greatest of sporting fish.
We will now consider the means by which acclimatisation may be effected, namely, through the appearance of varieties having a different constitution, and through the effects of habit.
English seed podded abundantly;" and this apparently shows some degree of acclimatisation in our English plants.
Nothing had so much surprised us as the rapid acclimatisation of the majority, and the good effects, so far as they appeared, of living in high camps.
But even supposing that no amount of acclimatisation enables him to accomplish his end, he has other weapons in his armoury.
How much of the acclimatisation of species to any peculiar climate is due to mere habit, and how much to the natural selection of varieties having different innate constitutions, and how much to both means combined, is an obscure question.
American cuckoo Metamorphism of oldest rocks Mice destroying bees --acclimatisation of --tails of Miller, Prof.
With the assistance of the Acclimatisation Society of Paris, some experiments have already been made in this direction.
That acclimatisation plays a part, is shewn by the many cases in which negroes have become somewhat liable to tropical fevers, after having resided for some time in a colder climate.
The races differ also in constitution, in acclimatisation and in liability to certain diseases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acclimatisation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
