...It was not at first by any means a Christianchurch, but a mere adaptation of those rites of fetish which inAmerica is termed obe worship, or "voodooism...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...The organisation of such an insect is a marvellous adaptation ofphysical form to special circumstances...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...We know that the variation in form and colorhas brought about the remarkable adaptations to surroundingswhich we call mimicry and protective coloration...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...With slight adaptation it can be madeuseful for any insect, either preserved or living...
Worrallo Whitney 「A Guide for the Study of Animals」
...The order of Crinoids has diminished somuch in modern geological times that we must consult its fossil forms inorder to understand fully the peculiar adaptation of the Echinoderm plan inthis group...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...I stayedtill the alterations were completed, and by eleven at nightreached home, to put the adaptation of the crotchet to the test...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...In this positionthey have shown a remarkable adaptation to extremely varied conditions...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...Restriction in dispersal due to geographic isolation has probably hindered gene flow, thus allowing rapid local adaptation, recognizable in variation at the infraspecific level...
Emil K. Urban 「Birds from Coahuila, Mexico」
...Thus, anyconsideration of variation in breeding schedules must be sensitive tothe limits, whether broad or restricting, that the heritage of aspecies sets on its present chronological adaptation...
Richard F. Johnston 「The Breeding Birds of Kansas」
...In these and multitudes of othercases the adaptation of the form of the insect to its mode of life isone of cause and effect, and not a bit less wonderful after we know whatinduced the change of form...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
... To these questions the science now in fashion always has a reply ready: adaptation to environment...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...The vibrissæ are long and sensitive, and may indicate a special developmentof the sense of touch as an adaptation to nocturnal habitsand to life in an underground labyrinth...
Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor 「Life History of the Kangaroo Rat」
...For the purpose of this review there is no special value in a comparisonof the tarsi of frogs and salamanders, since the leaping adaptation ofthe former leaves very little common pattern between them...
Theodore H. Eaton 「The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence」
...Sponge is notdevoid of capability in the way of tasteful adaptation...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
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