Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volumen 1Lea & Blanchard, 1841 - 87 páginas |
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... specimens which are dispersed over the cabinets of Europe , have nearly all been taken from one quarry . All these fishes must have died suddenly on this fatal spot , and have been speedily buried in the calcareous sediment then in the ...
... specimens which are dispersed over the cabinets of Europe , have nearly all been taken from one quarry . All these fishes must have died suddenly on this fatal spot , and have been speedily buried in the calcareous sediment then in the ...
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... specimen , and of the greater part of this collection , are published in Mr. Hawkins's Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri , London , 1834. Pl . 8. Fig . 1 , is a small specimen of the Ichthyosaurus Communis , from the lias at Lyme ...
... specimen , and of the greater part of this collection , are published in Mr. Hawkins's Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri , London , 1834. Pl . 8. Fig . 1 , is a small specimen of the Ichthyosaurus Communis , from the lias at Lyme ...
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... specimens , is identical in appearance and chemical composition with the insulated coprolites that occur in the same ... specimen has been presented by Viscount Cole to the Geological Collection of the University of Oxford . It affords ...
... specimens , is identical in appearance and chemical composition with the insulated coprolites that occur in the same ... specimen has been presented by Viscount Cole to the Geological Collection of the University of Oxford . It affords ...
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... Specimens thus marked are engraved at Pl . 15 , Figs , 3 , 5 , 7 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14 . If we attempt to discover a final cause for these curious provisions in the bowels of the extinct reptile inhabitants of the seas of a former world ...
... Specimens thus marked are engraved at Pl . 15 , Figs , 3 , 5 , 7 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14 . If we attempt to discover a final cause for these curious provisions in the bowels of the extinct reptile inhabitants of the seas of a former world ...
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... specimens than I could carry ; many of these contained a fossil fish , or fragment of a plant , but the greater number had for their nucleus , a Coprolite , exhibiting an internal spiral structure ; they were probably derived from ...
... specimens than I could carry ; many of these contained a fossil fish , or fragment of a plant , but the greater number had for their nucleus , a Coprolite , exhibiting an internal spiral structure ; they were probably derived from ...
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abundant adapted afford Agassiz air-chambers Ammonites ancient animal and vegetable appear Articulated beds Belemnite body bones bony bottom calcareous Carboniferous cavity Chalk chambered shells character clay Coal formation composed Coniferæ contrivances Coprolites creation creatures Cretaceous Crocodiles Crustaceans Cuvier Cycadeæ deposites derived Dicotyledonous discovery earth Encrinites entire evidence existing external shell extinct species farther feet Ferns fluid fossil fossil Fishes fresh-water genus geological globe horny Ichthyosaurus Iguanodon important inhabitants ink-bag land Lias limestone living Lizards lobes Lyme Regis Mammalia marine mechanical Megalosaurus Megatherium mineral nature Nautilus Nautilus Pompilius nearly occur Oolite organic remains Pachydermata peculiar Pentacrinite period plants Plesiosaurus portion present probably Pterodactyle quadrupeds recent represents reptiles resembling ribs rocks sand Secondary similar siphuncle skeleton specimens stems strata stratum structure surface teeth tion tooth Trans Transition series transverse plates Trilobites trunk vertebræ vertebral column whilst
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Página 170 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 439 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Página 27 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 423 - I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there.
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Página 161 - ... swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach...
Página 22 - Moses; but does Moses ever say, that when God created the heavens and the earth, he did more at the time alluded to than transform, them out of previously existing materials? Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages...
Página 3 - On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance, the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an...
Página 26 - ... [I defy him, without an assistant, quoth Dr. Slop.] " In other matters, we may be deceived by false appearances ; and, as the wise man complains, hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon the earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But...
Página 299 - ... we infer, that had it differed materially from its actual condition, it might have so far affected the rays of light, that a corresponding difference from the eyes of existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. ' Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient...