Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumH. G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page
... SOUTH OF EUROPE , translated by ROSCOE . Complete in 2 vois Portraits . 7. ROSCOE'S LIFE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI , CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT , including the Copyright Notes and Illustrations , new Memoir by his Sou . 8. SCHLEGEL'S LECTURES ON ...
... SOUTH OF EUROPE , translated by ROSCOE . Complete in 2 vois Portraits . 7. ROSCOE'S LIFE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI , CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT , including the Copyright Notes and Illustrations , new Memoir by his Sou . 8. SCHLEGEL'S LECTURES ON ...
Page 4
... South and north Downs of Sussex , Kent and Surrey ; Downs of Hants , Wilts , & c . Chalk marl and firestone ; or Upper Green Sand . ( Godstone , Undercliff of Isle of Wight . ) Galt or blue chalk - marl . ( Folkstone . ) Green sand ...
... South and north Downs of Sussex , Kent and Surrey ; Downs of Hants , Wilts , & c . Chalk marl and firestone ; or Upper Green Sand . ( Godstone , Undercliff of Isle of Wight . ) Galt or blue chalk - marl . ( Folkstone . ) Green sand ...
Page 7
... south wall ; and as the rooms are lighted by side - windows , instead of by sky - lights as in the Zoological department , nearly half the wall space is rendered unavailable for cabinets . The complete and excellently arranged ...
... south wall ; and as the rooms are lighted by side - windows , instead of by sky - lights as in the Zoological department , nearly half the wall space is rendered unavailable for cabinets . The complete and excellently arranged ...
Page 9
... South America , from Buenos Ayres ; and beyond it , the skeleton of the Mastodon of the Ohio , from North America ; between them is placed a most extraordinary specimen , —the skull and tusks , ( fourteen feet long , ) of the Elephas ...
... South America , from Buenos Ayres ; and beyond it , the skeleton of the Mastodon of the Ohio , from North America ; between them is placed a most extraordinary specimen , —the skull and tusks , ( fourteen feet long , ) of the Elephas ...
Page 11
... south and west sides of the room . The arrangement is botanical ; the simplest forms of vegetable structure , the Algæ , & c . are in the first case , to the right of the entrance . A. [ 1. A , B , C. ] Algae and Fuci ( Fossil sea ...
... south and west sides of the room . The arrangement is botanical ; the simplest forms of vegetable structure , the Algæ , & c . are in the first case , to the right of the entrance . A. [ 1. A , B , C. ] Algae and Fuci ( Fossil sea ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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