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In connection with the West of Scotland Angling Club, of which he was a zealous member, he had successfully introduced the grayling into Scotland an achievement in acclimatisation worthy of being remembered. While President of the Glasgow Skating Club he published a treatise on the art of skating, which is still the most popular manual on the subject, and has, we believe, reached a third edition.
I am certain of one thing: it is to the cigarette that the temperate habits of the twentieth century are due. Nicotine knocked port and claret out in the second round. The acclimatisation of the cigarette in England only dates from the "seventies." As a child I remember that the only form of tobacco indulged in by the people that I knew was the cigar.
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.
"For fresh food, sir?" said Walters. "Won't they be very small?" The doctor laughed, while the naturalist's eyes opened very wide and round, so did his mouth. "For food, my dear young friend?" he said in his quiet way. "They are being sent out by an acclimatisation society, in the hope that they will assist to furnish Australia and New Zealand with a good supply of salmon and trout.
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.
There are, it is true, a few men out there who, although they have been resident in West Africa for years, have never had fever, but you can count them on the fingers of one hand. There can be no acclimatisation where the weeding out is as drastic as this. Either the anopheles mosquito or the European must quit.
He was, as I said, a very great naturalist, and chief professor of Necrobioneopalaeonthydrochthonanthropopithekology in the new university which the king of the Cannibal Islands had founded; and, being a member of the Acclimatisation Society, he had come here to collect all the nasty things which he could find on the coast of England, and turn them loose round the Cannibal Islands, because they had not nasty things enough there to eat what they left.
They were obliged to search a long time before discovering him in one of the upper compartments of the projectile, where a rather inexplicable rebound had hurled him violently. The poor animal was in a pitiable condition. "The devil!" said Michel. "Our acclimatisation is in danger!" The unfortunate dog was carefully lowered.
Rapid Acclimatisation The Bench The Jury Acquittal of Criminals Who Confess Their Crimes Peasants, Merchants, and Nobles as Jurymen Independence and Political Significance of the New Courts.
Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, in the time of sleep, etc., and this leads me to say a few words on acclimatisation.
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