Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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Página 54
... affinity with the cryptogamic forms . That many trees of higher families now existed , seems unlikely , when we learn that such trees occur in considerable numbers in subsequent formations , showing that there was nothing positively to ...
... affinity with the cryptogamic forms . That many trees of higher families now existed , seems unlikely , when we learn that such trees occur in considerable numbers in subsequent formations , showing that there was nothing positively to ...
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... affinity to the fins of fishes . Over all was a skin resembling that of the cetaceous animals . Nor should it be omitted that the sternum or breast- bone presents a structure resembling that of the ornithorhynchus or duck - rat of ...
... affinity to the fins of fishes . Over all was a skin resembling that of the cetaceous animals . Nor should it be omitted that the sternum or breast- bone presents a structure resembling that of the ornithorhynchus or duck - rat of ...
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... teeth of a predacious mammal . Professor Owen has been unable to recognise the " affinity with any mammalian type , recent or extinct , known to him . " in Northern India and Africa , and patches of it REPTILES ABUNDANT . 77 Oolite.
... teeth of a predacious mammal . Professor Owen has been unable to recognise the " affinity with any mammalian type , recent or extinct , known to him . " in Northern India and Africa , and patches of it REPTILES ABUNDANT . 77 Oolite.
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... affinity into nodules of flint , probably concentrating , in every instance , upon a piece of decaying organic matter , as has been the case with the nodules of ironstone in the earlier rocks , and the spherules of the oolite . What is ...
... affinity into nodules of flint , probably concentrating , in every instance , upon a piece of decaying organic matter , as has been the case with the nodules of ironstone in the earlier rocks , and the spherules of the oolite . What is ...
Página 99
... . 66 . still pachyderms , and the tapiroid animals con- Skull of Dinotherium . tinue to be conspicuous . Here occur remains of the Dinotherium , a creature said to exhibit an affinity to the cetacea H 2 MAMMALIA ABUNDANT . 99.
... . 66 . still pachyderms , and the tapiroid animals con- Skull of Dinotherium . tinue to be conspicuous . Here occur remains of the Dinotherium , a creature said to exhibit an affinity to the cetacea H 2 MAMMALIA ABUNDANT . 99.
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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Página lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Página 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...