Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumH. G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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Page 85
... pointed out in my " Fossils of the South Downs ; " and the name Marsupites , suggested by the purse - like form of the closed specimens , was adopted . The receptacle of the Marsupite is of a subovate shape , rounded and entire at the ...
... pointed out in my " Fossils of the South Downs ; " and the name Marsupites , suggested by the purse - like form of the closed specimens , was adopted . The receptacle of the Marsupite is of a subovate shape , rounded and entire at the ...
Page 106
... pointed to an animal resembling the Otter or Badger , rather than to the Beaver , which some persons have thought it might prove to be . " I offered this native a handsome remuneration if he would obtain me a specimen , dead or alive ...
... pointed to an animal resembling the Otter or Badger , rather than to the Beaver , which some persons have thought it might prove to be . " I offered this native a handsome remuneration if he would obtain me a specimen , dead or alive ...
Page 118
... pointed out , but differs in the lesser expansion of the basi - occipitals ( Lign . 29 , a . a . ) , and par - occipitals ( Lign . 29 , b . b . ) , and the greater development of the mastoid processes ( Lign . 29 , c . c . ) ; and in ...
... pointed out , but differs in the lesser expansion of the basi - occipitals ( Lign . 29 , a . a . ) , and par - occipitals ( Lign . 29 , b . b . ) , and the greater development of the mastoid processes ( Lign . 29 , c . c . ) ; and in ...
Page 126
... pointed extremity . The coracoid grooves are very shallow ; the costal border has depressions for five sternal ribs . The general form and proportions of this bone are indicative of a bird of the same natural family , but with wings ...
... pointed extremity . The coracoid grooves are very shallow ; the costal border has depressions for five sternal ribs . The general form and proportions of this bone are indicative of a bird of the same natural family , but with wings ...
Page 127
... pointed out in the Zoological Transactions , vol . iii . To the natives of the pahs or villages my son visited on his homeward route to Wellington , the Notornis was a perfect novelty , and excited great interest . No one had seen such ...
... pointed out in the Zoological Transactions , vol . iii . To the natives of the pahs or villages my son visited on his homeward route to Wellington , the Notornis was a perfect novelty , and excited great interest . No one had seen such ...
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ancient animal arch 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 length Lign limestone lizards 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
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Page 197 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page vii - Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain ; the river its channel in the soil; the animal its bones in the stratum ; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
Page 340 - ... darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach. It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility...
Page 340 - ... ichthyosaurus to cut through the waves. May it not, therefore, be concluded, (since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach?
Page 340 - ... swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws and its incapacity for swift motion through the water...
Page 219 - The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosaurio*.
Page 94 - It is now covered by a thin layer of sand when exposed at low water. . . Although bones of several species of Moa, especially of the largest kinds, have been collected from this locality in considerable numbers and in great perfection, yet as the bed is rapidly diminishing from the inroads of the sea, there is great reason to fear that it will be entirely washed away, without yielding to the palaeontologist all the desired information respecting the extinct animals whose relics it enshrines; for...
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