Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumHenry G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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... fossil , so far as the present arrangement of the Gallery of Organic Remains will permit , the letters and numbers affixed to the respective Cases are inserted between brackets , and placed after the letters and figures of the plan ...
... fossil , so far as the present arrangement of the Gallery of Organic Remains will permit , the letters and numbers affixed to the respective Cases are inserted between brackets , and placed after the letters and figures of the plan ...
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... Fossil Birds of New Zealand , p . 90 . CHAP . III . Part 1 , Synopsis of Room III . p . 136. - Part 2 , Fossil Reptiles , p . 147. - Part 3 , Batrachians and Saurians , p . 160. - Part 4 , Geology of the S.E. of England , p . 203 ...
... Fossil Birds of New Zealand , p . 90 . CHAP . III . Part 1 , Synopsis of Room III . p . 136. - Part 2 , Fossil Reptiles , p . 147. - Part 3 , Batrachians and Saurians , p . 160. - Part 4 , Geology of the S.E. of England , p . 203 ...
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... fossil wood ; and bones or shells , whether in an earthy and decaying state , or permeated by calc - spar , flint , or iron , and converted into a hard mineral substance , are alike fossil bones or shells . 2. Petrifactions , are the ...
... fossil wood ; and bones or shells , whether in an earthy and decaying state , or permeated by calc - spar , flint , or iron , and converted into a hard mineral substance , are alike fossil bones or shells . 2. Petrifactions , are the ...
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... Fossil Fauna ; but the assem- blage of relics of various classes and orders , provisionally deposited in the cases , forbids a general description . The unique and highly interesting collection of the Fossil Remains of Birds from New ...
... Fossil Fauna ; but the assem- blage of relics of various classes and orders , provisionally deposited in the cases , forbids a general description . The unique and highly interesting collection of the Fossil Remains of Birds from New ...
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... fossil 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 ...
... fossil 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 ...
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animal arch articular articulated beds belong birds body bones British Museum caudal vertebræ cavity cervical Cetiosaurus chalk characters clay collection colossal convex coracoid cranium Cretaceous 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 Isle 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-cases tail teeth Teleosaurus tertiary tibia Tilgate Forest tooth Trans transverse upper vertebral column Wall-case Wealden Wonders of Geology Zealand