Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... ANIMAL CHEMISTRY IN ITS RELATION TO STOMACH AND RENAL DISEASES . 8vo . 6s . CHURCHILL'S MANUALS . Feap . Svo . cloth ... Kingdom . 1 VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . OF WORKS ON CHEMISTRY .
... ANIMAL CHEMISTRY IN ITS RELATION TO STOMACH AND RENAL DISEASES . 8vo . 6s . CHURCHILL'S MANUALS . Feap . Svo . cloth ... Kingdom . 1 VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . OF WORKS ON CHEMISTRY .
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... animals which it contains must be pronounced humble , though it is not defi- cient in a class which stands high in the sub - kingdom to which it belongs . What constitutes high and low in animal organization ? An animal is said by ...
... animals which it contains must be pronounced humble , though it is not defi- cient in a class which stands high in the sub - kingdom to which it belongs . What constitutes high and low in animal organization ? An animal is said by ...
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... animal kingdom is primarily divided into Vertebrate and Invertebrate ; animals with a back - bone , and the superior nervous system which that structure implies ; and animals devoid of that structure , and possessing a humbler nervous ...
... animal kingdom is primarily divided into Vertebrate and Invertebrate ; animals with a back - bone , and the superior nervous system which that structure implies ; and animals devoid of that structure , and possessing a humbler nervous ...
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... Animal Kingdom , when we speak of Crinoidea , which might be described as a lowly kind of star - fish , fixed on the top of a flexible stalk arising from the sea - bottom . Numberless calcareous plates enter into the com- position of ...
... Animal Kingdom , when we speak of Crinoidea , which might be described as a lowly kind of star - fish , fixed on the top of a flexible stalk arising from the sea - bottom . Numberless calcareous plates enter into the com- position of ...
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... kingdom of Permia . This sub - formation - comprehending in ascending order a group of sandstones , called with us ... animal forms which first appeared in the Silurians , and passed , with the changes which have been indicated , through ...
... kingdom of Permia . This sub - formation - comprehending in ascending order a group of sandstones , called with us ... animal forms which first appeared in the Silurians , and passed , with the changes which have been indicated , through ...
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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...