Petrifactions and Their Teachings; Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumBohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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... British Museum . BY GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL , ESQ . LL.D. F.R.S : HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND , ETC .; AUTHOR OF " THE MEDALS OF CREATION , " " THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY , " " THOUGHTS ON ANIMALCULES , " ETC ...
... British Museum . BY GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL , ESQ . LL.D. F.R.S : HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND , ETC .; AUTHOR OF " THE MEDALS OF CREATION , " " THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY , " " THOUGHTS ON ANIMALCULES , " ETC ...
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Gideon Algernon Mantell. TO THE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND HONOURABLE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM , HIS GRACE JOHN BIRD LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY , THOMAS LORD TRURO LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR , RIGHT HON . CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE SPEAKER OF ...
Gideon Algernon Mantell. TO THE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND HONOURABLE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM , HIS GRACE JOHN BIRD LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY , THOMAS LORD TRURO LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR , RIGHT HON . CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE SPEAKER OF ...
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... BRITISH MUSEUM , and an Explanatory Catalogue for the scientific observer . With this view the specimens in each Room are described in a separate chapter , and a ground - plan of the Cases , and a Synopsis of their contents , are given ...
... BRITISH MUSEUM , and an Explanatory Catalogue for the scientific observer . With this view the specimens in each Room are described in a separate chapter , and a ground - plan of the Cases , and a Synopsis of their contents , are given ...
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... British Museum , and that this volume , like its predecessors , has been composed during the brief and uncertain intervals of arduous professional duties . 19 , CHESTER SQUARE , Oct. 11 , 1851 . G. A. M. DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE ...
... British Museum , and that this volume , like its predecessors , has been composed during the brief and uncertain intervals of arduous professional duties . 19 , CHESTER SQUARE , Oct. 11 , 1851 . G. A. M. DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE ...
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... British Museum . ( See p . 124. ) " That few living examples remain , is evident from the fact that the mounted specimen in DR . MANTELL's possession is the only one that has yet been seen all the information respecting it that has been ...
... British Museum . ( See p . 124. ) " That few living examples remain , is evident from the fact that the mounted specimen in DR . MANTELL's possession is the only one that has yet been seen all the information respecting it that has been ...
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ancient animal arch articular articulated beds belong birds body bones British Museum carnivora caudal vertebræ cavity cervical Cetiosaurus chalk characters clay collection colossal convex coracoid cranium Crocodile crocodilian Cuvier deposits dermal Dinornis discovered distal dorsal Eningen Eocene extinct extremity feet femur figured and described fishes formation fossil fossil remains fragments Gavial genera genus gigantic humerus Hylæosaurus Ichthyolites Ichthyosaurus Iguana Iguanodon imbedded inches long integument length Lign limestone lower jaw Maidstone mammalia margin Mastodon Medals of Creation Megalosaurus Memoir metatarsals Monte Bolca Mosasaurus numerous obtained Oolite Organic Remains original osseous paddles phalangeal plates Plesiosaurus portion posterior present Professor Owen quarry remarkable reptiles resemble ribs sandstone saurians scapula shells skeleton skull slab species specimens spine stems stone Stonesfield strata structure surface Sussex Table-case tail teeth Teleosaurus tertiary tibia Tilgate Forest tooth Trans transverse upper vertebral column Wall-case Wealden Wonders of Geology Zealand