A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 |
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... supposed to have been formed by deposition from the Rhine , near Eppelsheim , in Hesse . The fossil species of marine mammalia are much more numerous , and Cuvier described and figured the remains of extinct species of seals , lamantins ...
... supposed to have been formed by deposition from the Rhine , near Eppelsheim , in Hesse . The fossil species of marine mammalia are much more numerous , and Cuvier described and figured the remains of extinct species of seals , lamantins ...
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... supposed to have this complicated struc- ture are the furcularia , tubicolaria , and brachio- nus . The second and only other order of the infusoria is termed the homogenea , and compre- hends all those animalcules which have no ...
... supposed to have this complicated struc- ture are the furcularia , tubicolaria , and brachio- nus . The second and only other order of the infusoria is termed the homogenea , and compre- hends all those animalcules which have no ...
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... supposed effect of digestion , as it progressed from one sac to another . We deem it unnecessary to extend these observations to greater length , as a very copious account of the Infusoria will be found in vol . ii . p . 623–638 ; to ...
... supposed effect of digestion , as it progressed from one sac to another . We deem it unnecessary to extend these observations to greater length , as a very copious account of the Infusoria will be found in vol . ii . p . 623–638 ; to ...
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... supposed " Astronomy is that department of knowledge , which has for its object to investigate the motions , the laws by which their movements are directed , and the magnitudes , and distances of the heavenly bodies the ends they are ...
... supposed " Astronomy is that department of knowledge , which has for its object to investigate the motions , the laws by which their movements are directed , and the magnitudes , and distances of the heavenly bodies the ends they are ...
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... supposed , as in the Ptolemaic system , to move around the earth as their common centre . The Tychonic system , which in order of time was pro- posed subsequently to the Copernican theory , origin- ated with Tycho Brahe , a Danish ...
... supposed , as in the Ptolemaic system , to move around the earth as their common centre . The Tychonic system , which in order of time was pro- posed subsequently to the Copernican theory , origin- ated with Tycho Brahe , a Danish ...
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