Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumH. G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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... states of preservation , and more or less 1 Emerson's Essays . Bohn's Edition . 2 From three Greek words , signifying a discourse on ancient beings . B altered in appearance and composition by mineralization , the epithets.
... states of preservation , and more or less 1 Emerson's Essays . Bohn's Edition . 2 From three Greek words , signifying a discourse on ancient beings . B altered in appearance and composition by mineralization , the epithets.
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... ancient epochs they are sometimes as little changed as if they had been entombed in the strata but a few centuries . 1. Fossils , may be defined as the durable parts of animal and vegetable structures imbedded in rocks and strata by ...
... ancient epochs they are sometimes as little changed as if they had been entombed in the strata but a few centuries . 1. Fossils , may be defined as the durable parts of animal and vegetable structures imbedded in rocks and strata by ...
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... ancient Tertiary . ( London , Hants , and Isle of Wight . Paris basin . ) CRETACEOUS FORMATION . WEALDEN FORMATION . SECONDARY EPOCHS . Upper Chalk with flints . Lower Chalk . ( South and north Downs of Sussex , Kent and Surrey ; Downs ...
... ancient Tertiary . ( London , Hants , and Isle of Wight . Paris basin . ) CRETACEOUS FORMATION . WEALDEN FORMATION . SECONDARY EPOCHS . Upper Chalk with flints . Lower Chalk . ( South and north Downs of Sussex , Kent and Surrey ; Downs ...
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... ancient strata ; and in the collection before us , a considerable number of the most important and cha- racteristic species are exhibited . The greater part are from the coal deposits , the fern - leaves generally occurring in the ...
... ancient strata ; and in the collection before us , a considerable number of the most important and cha- racteristic species are exhibited . The greater part are from the coal deposits , the fern - leaves generally occurring in the ...
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... ancient world . The specimens in coal - shale exhibited in Cases B and C , are for the most part from the coal - shales of Great Britain ; the series comprises a con- siderable number of the genera , and many of the species that have ...
... ancient world . The specimens in coal - shale exhibited in Cases B and C , are for the most part from the coal - shales of Great Britain ; the series comprises a con- siderable number of the genera , and many of the species that have ...
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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