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 v
... REMAINS MORE INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL , AND MORE CONDUCIVE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE , BY CONNECTING THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SPECIMENS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR ORGANIC ...
... REMAINS MORE INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL , AND MORE CONDUCIVE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE , BY CONNECTING THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SPECIMENS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR ORGANIC ...
Page 2
Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum Gideon Algernon Mantell. altered in appearance and composition by mineralization , the epithets figured stones , petrifactions , fossils , organic remains , & c ...
Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum Gideon Algernon Mantell. altered in appearance and composition by mineralization , the epithets figured stones , petrifactions , fossils , organic remains , & c ...
Page 7
... Remains , presents a rich assemblage of the principal types of animated nature which now inhabit the earth , and forms an appropriate and instruc- tive introduction to the suite of apartments , in which are preserved the vestiges of the ...
... Remains , presents a rich assemblage of the principal types of animated nature which now inhabit the earth , and forms an appropriate and instruc- tive introduction to the suite of apartments , in which are preserved the vestiges of the ...
Page 8
... Remains is botanical , and zoological ; but in consequence of the want of space , and the continual additions which have been made of late years to various departments , the arrangement is necessarily some- what irregular . The Fossil ...
... Remains is botanical , and zoological ; but in consequence of the want of space , and the continual additions which have been made of late years to various departments , the arrangement is necessarily some- what irregular . The Fossil ...
Page 11
... remains in the collection . This specimen is ten feet long , twenty - five feet in horizontal circumference , and fifteen feet in girth in a vertical direction ; gigantic as are these proportions , they are one - third less than those ...
... remains in the collection . This specimen is ten feet long , twenty - five feet in horizontal circumference , and fifteen feet in girth in a vertical direction ; gigantic as are these proportions , they are one - third less than those ...
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