Besides, these periodical variations may be accounted for in part--especially in the case of double stars--from their apparent rather than real change of place in the heavens.
This is accounted for by the connecting ridges reaching from Europe to South America.
He thinks that this may be accounted for by supposing that "but a short time elapsed between the knowledge of smelting and casting copper ore and the introduction of tin, and the subsequent manufacture and use of bronze.
Accidents will happen, and beyond doubt many freaks of discontinuous distribution have to be accounted for by some such means.
He showed that this could be accounted for by their migration southwards from a common area, and he told Wallace that he "doubted much whether the now called Palaearctic and Neartic regions ought to be separated.
This was found to dispose of the vast majority of cases, and the remainder heaccounted for by geographical change.
It was formerly thought that differences of this kind could be accounted for by long exposure to different climates; but Pallas first shewed that this is not tenable, and he has since been followed by almost all anthropologists.
Nor can the differences between the races of man be accounted for by the inherited effects of the increased or decreased use of parts, except to a quite insignificant degree.
May not this beaccounted for by the lessened use of the jaws, owing to nutritious food having been given during a long period to all highly improved pigeons?
This may probably be accounted for by the animal being kept chiefly by poor persons, who do not rear large numbers, nor carefully match and select the young.
Nor could this fact be accounted for by the mere increase in length of the cotyledons through growth, for this by itself would not induce any lateral movement.
Of the three failures, one can be accounted for, as the radicle became sickly on the following day; and a second was observed only during 11 h.
The internodes apparently do not move more than can be accounted for by the varying action of the light.
The young shoots show no more movement than can be accounted for by daily variations in the action of the light.
His intimacy, then, is not to be accounted for by his relationship?
These things were in no manner to be accounted for, and my eyes at length dropped to the open pages of a book, and to a sentence underscored therein.
But the fervid facility of his impromptus could not be so accounted for.
Copy the diagram in Figure 194, showing how the two ridges may be accounted for by a single resistant stratum dislocated by a fault.
Metamorphic rocks occur wide-spread in many regions, often hundreds of square miles in area, where such extensive changes cannot be accounted for by igneous intrusions.
This uneven floor could be accounted for either by the profound warping of a valley of erosion or by the unequal depression of the floor of a rift valley.
On the other hand, along the German coast of the Baltic the only historic fluctuations of sea level are those which may be accounted for by variations due to changes in rainfall.
This becomes a very important consideration, when certain important differences in animal structure and habits are to be accounted for.
Events were found to follow each other in a uniform way, and this uniformity was thus sought to be accounted for.
Even if admitted, there are many things which cannot be accounted for by it without very extravagant assumptions.
This process of upheaval of some parts of the earth, accompanied with subsidence in other parts, is one which cannot be accounted for by any natural laws with which we are acquainted.
But though it appears so small, its disturbing effects can only be accounted for on the supposition that its mass is at least half that of Sirius, in which case its light must be very faint, possibly wholly reflected.
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