 | Geological Society of London - 1850 - 732 pages
...from this locality, yet as the bed is rapidly diminishing from the encroachments of the sea, there is reason to fear that it will be entirely washed away,...extinct animals whose relics it enshrines ; for the Maoris or natives, and whalers, are well-aware of the interest attached to the bones by the Europeans,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1850 - 36 pages
...from this locality, yet as the bed is rapidly diminishing from the encroachments of the sea, there is 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... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1850 - 848 pages
...from this locality, yet as the bed is rapidly diminishing from the encroachments of the sea, there is 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... | |
 | 1858 - 810 pages
...tenax) once grew luxuriantly. It is now covered by a thin layer of sand when exposed at low water. . . Although bones of several species of Moa, especially...will be entirely washed away, without yielding to the palaeontologist all the desired information respecting the extinct animals whose relics it enshrines;... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...tenaz) once grew luxuriantly. It is now covered by a thin layer of sand when exposed at low water. . . Although bones of several species of Moa, especially...will be entirely washed away, without yielding to the palaeontologist all the desired information respecting the extinct animals whose relics it enshrines... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 588 pages
...tenax) once grew luxuriantly. It is now covered by a thin layer of sand when exposed at low water. . . Although bones of several species of Moa, especially...will be entirely washed away, without yielding to the palaeontologist all the desired information respecting the extinct animals whose relics it enshrines... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 630 pages
...tenax) once grew luxuriantly. It is now covered by a thin layer of sand when exposed at low water. . . Although bones of several species of Moa, especially...will be entirely washed away, without yielding to the paleontologist all the desired information respecting the extinct animals whose relics it enshrines... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1850 - 738 pages
...from this locality, yet as the bed is rapidly diminishing from the encroachments of the sea, there is 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... | |
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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... 