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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Page 18
... Entire and broken specimens of the meteoric stones of which a shower was seen to descend at Aigle , in the department of the Orne , April 26th , 1803 . Meteorite which fell at Possil , near Glasgow , April 5th , 1804 . Fragment of that ...
... Entire and broken specimens of the meteoric stones of which a shower was seen to descend at Aigle , in the department of the Orne , April 26th , 1803 . Meteorite which fell at Possil , near Glasgow , April 5th , 1804 . Fragment of that ...
Page 41
... entire , from their roots to the topmost branches . Near Newcastle in the Jarrow coal - mine , a tree was laid bare that measured forty feet in height , and above thirteen feet in diameter at the base ; it divided towards the summit ...
... entire , from their roots to the topmost branches . Near Newcastle in the Jarrow coal - mine , a tree was laid bare that measured forty feet in height , and above thirteen feet in diameter at the base ; it divided towards the summit ...
Page 48
... entire ; some of them are abortive , and others which have supported leaves are marked on the summits with vascular pits , indicating that the foliage was shed naturally.1 There is a fragment of an internal axis , about six inches in ...
... entire ; some of them are abortive , and others which have supported leaves are marked on the summits with vascular pits , indicating that the foliage was shed naturally.1 There is a fragment of an internal axis , about six inches in ...
Page 66
... entire series of strata , which in some places attains a total thickness of nearly 1,000 feet . The laminated structure of the deposits indicates a slow and gradual accumulation of fine sediment , like the deposit of the mud of the Nile ...
... entire series of strata , which in some places attains a total thickness of nearly 1,000 feet . The laminated structure of the deposits indicates a slow and gradual accumulation of fine sediment , like the deposit of the mud of the Nile ...
Page 72
... entire series of superimposed beds . " When I first examined this region in 1842 , Professor Hitchcock had already seen 2,000 impressions , each of them indented on the upper sides of layers of shale , while the casts of the same ...
... entire series of superimposed beds . " When I first examined this region in 1842 , Professor Hitchcock had already seen 2,000 impressions , each of them indented on the upper sides of layers of shale , while the casts of the same ...
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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