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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... animal its bones in the stratum , the fern and the leaf inscribe their modest epitaphs on the coal , the falling ... animals and plants imbedded in the earth are found in different states of preservation , and more or less 1 Emerson's ...
... animal its bones in the stratum , the fern and the leaf inscribe their modest epitaphs on the coal , the falling ... animals and plants imbedded in the earth are found in different states of preservation , and more or less 1 Emerson's ...
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... animals and plants often have acquired a stony hardness , while in rocks of the most ancient epochs they are ... animal and vegetable structures imbedded in rocks and strata by natural causes at a remote period ; thus wood in the ...
... animals and plants often have acquired a stony hardness , while in rocks of the most ancient epochs they are ... animal and vegetable structures imbedded in rocks and strata by natural causes at a remote period ; thus wood in the ...
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... animal and vegetable remains occur will be explained in the course of our investigations , as well as those ... animals and vegetables which flourished in the earlier ages of our globe , and have long since become extinct , but also as ...
... animal and vegetable remains occur will be explained in the course of our investigations , as well as those ... animals and vegetables which flourished in the earlier ages of our globe , and have long since become extinct , but also as ...
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... Animals and Plants , that successively tenanted our planet during the in- numerable ages which intervened between the earliest dawn of organic existences , and the creation of the human race . The Gallery of Organic Remains is situated ...
... Animals and Plants , that successively tenanted our planet during the in- numerable ages which intervened between the earliest dawn of organic existences , and the creation of the human race . The Gallery of Organic Remains is situated ...
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... animal over the surface , while the stone was in the state of moist sand , were traced on the blocks of sandstone when separated in the lines of stratification by the quarrymen . In one instance there were twenty - four consecutive ...
... animal over the surface , while the stone was in the state of moist sand , were traced on the blocks of sandstone when separated in the lines of stratification by the quarrymen . In one instance there were twenty - four consecutive ...
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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