A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 |
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Page xiv
... species of which are illustrated by ample details , and the characters of all the different groups are illustrated by fourteen plates , from his own pencil , represent- ing more than a hundred objects . After some interesting ...
... species of which are illustrated by ample details , and the characters of all the different groups are illustrated by fourteen plates , from his own pencil , represent- ing more than a hundred objects . After some interesting ...
Page xvi
... species of animals . These researches now occupy seven large quarto volumes , illustrated with more than two hundred engraved plates ; they have made us acquainted with at least seventy species of animals before entirely unknown to ...
... species of animals . These researches now occupy seven large quarto volumes , illustrated with more than two hundred engraved plates ; they have made us acquainted with at least seventy species of animals before entirely unknown to ...
Page xvii
... species lost by Hannibal in traversing that country , but must have belonged to species inhabiting that part of the globe at a much more remote period . The same cause is assigned by him for their remains occurring in England , Ireland ...
... species lost by Hannibal in traversing that country , but must have belonged to species inhabiting that part of the globe at a much more remote period . The same cause is assigned by him for their remains occurring in England , Ireland ...
Page xviii
... species as taken from the teeth , the head , and the rest of the skeleton , and then describes the different fossil species of deers , oxen , and other ruminat- ing animals , determined chiefly by their horns , and found in various ...
... species as taken from the teeth , the head , and the rest of the skeleton , and then describes the different fossil species of deers , oxen , and other ruminat- ing animals , determined chiefly by their horns , and found in various ...
Page xix
... species of crocodiles . difficulty of preserving it in the rocky strata , or The bones of the head are carefully compared of collecting its parts , from these ancient beds , with the corresponding bones of the mammalia , as we find in ...
... species of crocodiles . difficulty of preserving it in the rocky strata , or The bones of the head are carefully compared of collecting its parts , from these ancient beds , with the corresponding bones of the mammalia , as we find in ...
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