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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... 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 ...
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Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum Gideon Algernon Mantell. " If we look with wonder upon the great remains of human works , such as the columns of Palmyra , broken in the midst of the desert ; the ...
Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum Gideon Algernon Mantell. " If we look with wonder upon the great remains of human works , such as the columns of Palmyra , broken in the midst of the desert ; the ...
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Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum Gideon Algernon Mantell. PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS ; ILLUSTRATED BY A VISIT TO THE GALLERY OF ORGANIC REMAINS IN THE BBITISH MUSEUM . INTRODUCTION . A ...
Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum Gideon Algernon Mantell. PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS ; ILLUSTRATED BY A VISIT TO THE GALLERY OF ORGANIC REMAINS IN THE BBITISH MUSEUM . INTRODUCTION . A ...
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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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