The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... belong only to men of true genius . " ' " The excellent and lively work of our meritorious , self - taught counti yman , Mr. Miller , is as admirable for the clearness of its descriptions , and the sweetness of its composition , as for ...
... belong only to men of true genius . " ' " The excellent and lively work of our meritorious , self - taught counti yman , Mr. Miller , is as admirable for the clearness of its descriptions , and the sweetness of its composition , as for ...
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... the system to which the organisms of Balruddery and Carmylie belong , the representative of the Cornstones in England . Some matters there given as merely conjectural were also replaced by ascertained facts . In the latter , he.
... the system to which the organisms of Balruddery and Carmylie belong , the representative of the Cornstones in England . Some matters there given as merely conjectural were also replaced by ascertained facts . In the latter , he.
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... belong to different and nobler species , a few thousand years hence . The descend- ants of the ourang - outang , for instance , may be employed in some future age in writing treatises on Geology , in which they shall have to describe ...
... belong to different and nobler species , a few thousand years hence . The descend- ants of the ourang - outang , for instance , may be employed in some future age in writing treatises on Geology , in which they shall have to describe ...
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... , P. testudinarius , and P. hydrophilus ; of these , nine species belong to the Lower , and one- the Pterichthys hydrophi- lus- to the Upper Old Red Sandstone . alarm , and at other times lay close by the THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 47.
... , P. testudinarius , and P. hydrophilus ; of these , nine species belong to the Lower , and one- the Pterichthys hydrophi- lus- to the Upper Old Red Sandstone . alarm , and at other times lay close by the THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 47.
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... belong . Thus the results of the principle of classi- fication adopted by Agassiz wonderfully agree with the re- sults of the less simple principles adopted by Cuvier and the other masters in this department of Natural History . Now ...
... belong . Thus the results of the principle of classi- fication adopted by Agassiz wonderfully agree with the re- sults of the less simple principles adopted by Cuvier and the other masters in this department of Natural History . Now ...
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abundance acquainted Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery beautiful body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous fishes Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Christian Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit described diluvium Dipterus edge enamelled entire exhibited existing feet fins Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds illustration inch interest jaws Lias limestone lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum style surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite tubercles vast vegetable vertebral vertebral column volume writer
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