 | 1841 - 488 pages
...different types of organization. It united to the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a neck resembling the body of a serpent, a trunk and tail having the portions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Its most remarkable... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 pages
...of the secondary formation. There are five or six species. To the head of a lizard, the plesiosaurus united the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chamelion, and the paddles of a whale. Dr. Buckland proceeds with other most interesting matter in... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1838 - 530 pages
...still more singular animal, uniting to the head of a lizard and teeth of a crocodile, a long neck like the body of a serpent ; a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped ; the paddles of a whale ; and the ribs of a chameleon, the peculiarity in form of which seems connected... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...been the most heteroclite, and its characters altogether the most monstrous that have been vet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the... | |
 | 1840 - 522 pages
...been the most hétéroclite, and its characters altogether the most monstrous that have been yet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a...proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a caméléon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 pages
...it united the teeth of a crocodile; a neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent ja trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped; the ribs of a chamelion, and the paddles of a whale." All these remains " have been interred" (says Dr. Buckland)... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 600 pages
...united the teeth of a Crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a Serpent ; the trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary Quadruped ; the ribs resembling those of the Chameleon ; and the paddles being like those of the Whale. " Such," says Dr.... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 608 pages
...united the teeth of a Crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a Serpent ; the trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary Quadruped ; the ribs resembling those of the Chameleon ; and the paddles being like those of the Whale. " Such," says Dr.... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pages
...the name of monster. " To the head of the lizard," says Dr. Buckland, " it united the teeth of the crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling...proportions of an ordinary quadruped ; the ribs of a chamelion ; and the paddles of a whale." To the Rev. W. Conybeare and Sir Henry de la Beche we are... | |
 | 1848 - 876 pages
...comrade of this original. ' To the head of the lizard,' says I)r Buckland, ' it united the teeth of the crocodile; a neck of enormous length, resembling the...tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped ; t lie ribs of a chameleon ; and the paddles of ;i whale.' The great length of the former dragon waa... | |
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Plesiosaurus that Cuvier asserts the structure to have been the most heteroclite, and its characters altogether the most monstrous that have been yet found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile, a... 
