The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 82A. Constable, 1845 |
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... fish , ( Ophiura and Asterias . ) Crus- taceans ( trilobites ) are in great abundance ; some with beauti- fully perfect organs of sense , but with forms unlike any living genera or species of the class . Of molluscous creatures we great ...
... fish , ( Ophiura and Asterias . ) Crus- taceans ( trilobites ) are in great abundance ; some with beauti- fully perfect organs of sense , but with forms unlike any living genera or species of the class . Of molluscous creatures we great ...
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... fish were supposed to occur further down ; which our author regards as the tokens of nature's first and half - abor- tive efforts to make fish out of the lower animals . We believe he is wrong as to his facts , and we are certain he is ...
... fish were supposed to occur further down ; which our author regards as the tokens of nature's first and half - abor- tive efforts to make fish out of the lower animals . We believe he is wrong as to his facts , and we are certain he is ...
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... fishes which characterize this series of rocks . On the system of Agassiz , fishes are divided into four great orders- ( 1 . ) Placoids , or fishes partially studded with a kind of scaly plates such are the sharks and rays of the ...
... fishes which characterize this series of rocks . On the system of Agassiz , fishes are divided into four great orders- ( 1 . ) Placoids , or fishes partially studded with a kind of scaly plates such are the sharks and rays of the ...
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... fishes near the Crustaceans ! Now these supposed facts are only blunders and guesses made by the first observers before any good evidence was before them . To repeat these blunders now , is discreditable to the author , and only shows ...
... fishes near the Crustaceans ! Now these supposed facts are only blunders and guesses made by the first observers before any good evidence was before them . To repeat these blunders now , is discreditable to the author , and only shows ...
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... Fishes , however , * * During the passage of these sheets through the press , we have learned , from the last number of Professor Silliman's Journal , that traces of birds have been found in the carboniferous system of North America ...
... Fishes , however , * * During the passage of these sheets through the press , we have learned , from the last number of Professor Silliman's Journal , that traces of birds have been found in the carboniferous system of North America ...
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