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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... plants imbedded in the earth are found in different 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 ...
... plants imbedded in the earth are found in different 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 ...
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... plants often have acquired a stony hardness , while in rocks of the most 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 ...
... plants often have acquired a stony hardness , while in rocks of the most 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 ...
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... plants which , according to the present state of our knowledge , characterise the respective series of deposits . A few localities are inserted because they will be referred to hereafter . I will only remark that many of the details in ...
... plants which , according to the present state of our knowledge , characterise the respective series of deposits . A few localities are inserted because they will be referred to hereafter . I will only remark that many of the details in ...
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... 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 on the north ...
... 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 on the north ...
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... plants are placed there were figures of the trees which flourished during the carbo- niferous epoch , -as for example , the Lepidodendra and Sigil- lariæ , with their foliage , and fruits , and roots ; and above others , representations ...
... plants are placed there were figures of the trees which flourished during the carbo- niferous epoch , -as for example , the Lepidodendra and Sigil- lariæ , with their foliage , and fruits , and roots ; and above others , representations ...
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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