 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 pages
...of those of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale : — ' Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...; but our present observations will be chiefly limited to that which is the best known, and * Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 396 pages
...interment for From Sir Charles Bell's Bridgwater Treatise on the Hand. (Conybeare.) thousands of years amid the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the...examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of the species that are now existing upon the earth. The plesiosauri appear to have lived in shallow seas... | |
 | William Buckland - 1841 - 488 pages
...the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a Chameleon, and the paddles of a Whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...ancient earth, are at length recalled to light by the reseaches of the Geologist, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones... | |
 | 1843 - 282 pages
...contain a capacious set of lungs, and to rise or fall as those lungs became inflated or emptied. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 608 pages
...genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years, amidst the wreck of millions of the inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the species that are now existing upon the earth." The Plesiosaurus was evidently a marine animal ; and,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 600 pages
...genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years, amidst the wreck of millions of the inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the species that are now existing upon the earth." The Plesiosaurus was evidently a marine animal ; and,... | |
 | 1853 - 1036 pages
...the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Hesiosaurus ; a genus, the remains of which, after interment for...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the 647 PLESTIN. PLEURODONTS. 643 bones of specie! that are now existing upon the earth.' Conybeare thus... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1857 - 608 pages
...genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years, amidst the wreck of millions of the inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the species that are now existing upon the earth." The Plesiosaurus was evidently a marine animal ; and,... | |
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...plesiosaurus — a genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands" (? thousands of millions) "of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct...recalled to light by the researches of the geologist, aud submitted to our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now... | |
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