Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, เล่มที่ 1W. Pickering, 1837 - 747 หน้า |
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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 ...
หน้า 170
... 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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... specimen has been presented by Viscount Cole to the Geological Collection of the University of Oxford . It affords decisive proof that the substances in question cannot be referred to adventitious matter , placed accidentally in contact ...
... specimen has been presented by Viscount Cole to the Geological Collection of the University of Oxford . It affords decisive proof that the substances in question cannot be referred to adventitious matter , placed accidentally in contact ...
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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 ...
หน้า 199
... 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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adapted afford Agassiz air chambers allied Ammonites ancient animal and vegetable appear Baculite beds Belemnite body bones bony bottom calcareous Carboniferous cavity Chalk chambered shells character clay Coal formation composed condition Coniferæ contrivances Coprolites creation creatures Cretaceous Crocodiles Crustaceans Cuvier Cycadeæ deposits derived Dicotyledonous discovery earth Eningen entire evidence existing external shell extinct species feet Ferns fluid fossil fossil Fishes fossil species genera genus Geol Geology globe horny Ichthyosaurus Iguanodon important inhabitants ink-bag land limestone Lizards lobes Lyme Regis Mammalia marine mechanical Megatherium mineral nature Nautilus Nautilus Pompilius nearly occur Oolite organic remains peculiar perfect period plants Plesiosaurus portion present probably quadrupeds recent represents reptiles resembling ribs rocks sand sandstone Secondary similar siphuncle skeleton specimens stems strata stratum structure surface teeth Tertiary formations tion tooth Trans transverse plates Trilobites trunk vertebræ vertebral column whilst
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หน้า 224 - 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.
หน้า 596 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
หน้า 212 - That it was aquatic, is evident from the form of its paddles ; that it was marine, is almost equally so, from the remains with which it is universally associated ; that it may have occasionally visited the shore, the resemblance of its extremities to those of the turtle may lead us to conjecture. Its motion, however, must have been very awkward on land; its long neck must have impeded its progress through the water ; presenting a striking contrast to the organisation which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus...
หน้า xii - CHEMISTRY, METEOROLOGY, AND THE FUNCTION OF DIGESTION, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY.
หน้า 10 - Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to astronomy.
หน้า 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.
หน้า 23 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
หน้า xi - ON THE POWER WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD AS MANIFESTED IN THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL, NATURE TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
หน้า 458 - The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees, of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses, almost in the beauty and vigor of their primeval life...
หน้า 103 - The only evidence that has yet been collected upon this subject is negative ; but as far as this extends, no conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations...