Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... herbivorous reptile , which Dr. Mantell has shown , by a curious process of reasoning , to have possessed a tongue of prehensile character , like certain ruminant mammalia of FIG . 61 . our day . From the scapula or blade - bone of the ...
... herbivorous reptile , which Dr. Mantell has shown , by a curious process of reasoning , to have possessed a tongue of prehensile character , like certain ruminant mammalia of FIG . 61 . our day . From the scapula or blade - bone of the ...
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... herbivorous mammalia , and are the predominating forms of life , he says " The geologist , on hearing this , will probably refer back his mind to the secondary epochs , when lizards , some herbivorous , some carnivorous , and of ...
... herbivorous mammalia , and are the predominating forms of life , he says " The geologist , on hearing this , will probably refer back his mind to the secondary epochs , when lizards , some herbivorous , some carnivorous , and of ...
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... herbivore , but of unsocial habits . It is curious to find that a family now so limited in its range , had formerly been distributed over France , England , and other parts of the earth . Naturalists have conferred the names , Palao ...
... herbivore , but of unsocial habits . It is curious to find that a family now so limited in its range , had formerly been distributed over France , England , and other parts of the earth . Naturalists have conferred the names , Palao ...
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... herbivorous whale resembling the dugong , having a stinted development of the extremities , but an enormous tail , and reaching altogether the length of a hundred feet . In the miocene sub- period , the shells give eighteen per cent ...
... herbivorous whale resembling the dugong , having a stinted development of the extremities , but an enormous tail , and reaching altogether the length of a hundred feet . In the miocene sub- period , the shells give eighteen per cent ...
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... herbivorous cetaceans on the one hand , and to the ruminants on the other , than is exhibited by any existing species of the order . So among the early Edentata we meet with a group now entirely extinct , which connected that order with ...
... herbivorous cetaceans on the one hand , and to the ruminants on the other , than is exhibited by any existing species of the order . So among the early Edentata we meet with a group now entirely extinct , which connected that order with ...
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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...