 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1841 - 774 pages
...the ordinary course of proceeding. " These creatures," says that distinguished observer of Nature, " do not shed their teeth as other animals do that have...exactly underneath ; so that the shedding tooth falls sometimes before the succeeding tooth can supply its uses. But this would not have answered in the... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1855 - 912 pages
...the ordinary course of proceeding. "These creatures," says that distinguished observer of Nature, " do not shed their teeth as other animals do that have...exactly underneath ; so that the shedding tooth falls sometimes before the succeeding tooth can supply its uses. But this would not have answered in the... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1861 - 904 pages
...the ordinary course of proceeding. " These creatures," says that distinguished observer of Nature, " do not shed their teeth as other animals do that have...exactly underneath ; so that the shedding tooth falls sometimes before the succeeding tooth can supply its uses. But this would not have answered in the... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1862 - 438 pages
...this among a thousand other subjects, bears corroborative testimony to the above. He says, "Elephants do not shed their teeth as other animals do that have...than one tooth can afford to be for some time without their teeth : therefore the young tooth comes up in very nearly the same place with its predecessor,... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1862 - 492 pages
...more hout their teeth : STRUCTURE OF THE ELEPHANT. therefore the young tooth comes up in very nearly the same place with its predecessor, and some exactly underneath ; so that the shedding tooth falls sometimes before the succeeding tooth can supply its use. But this would not have answered in the elephant,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 518 pages
...longer time growing, and exhibits more laminae, than its predecessor. Elephants, says John Hunter, do not shed their teeth as other animals do that have more than one; for those that possess more than one tooth can afford to be for some time without their teeth. The young tooth consequently... | |
 | James Greenwood (journalist.) - 1880 - 508 pages
...for some time without their teeth : therefore the young tooth comes up in very nearly the same plac* with its predecessor, and some exactly underneath ; so that the shedding tooth falls sometimes before the succeeding tooth can supply its use. But this would not have answered in the elephant,... | |
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These creatures," says that distinguished observer of Nature, " do not shed their teeth as other animals do that have more than one ; for those that have more than one tooth can afford to be for some time without some of their teeth : therefore the young... 