 | Edmund Burke - 1799 - 774 pages
...glolliipetra, the enamel is competed of animal fubfiance and calcareous earth, and is nearly in the fame quantity as in the recent ; but the central part of the tooth has itsanimal fubfiance in the Mate of mucus, interfperfed in the calcareous matter. In the fofiil bones... | |
 | 1806 - 770 pages
...and can be washed off like wet dust; in sonic, however, it has a slight appearance of flakes. In the shark's tooth, or glossopetra, the enamel is composed...the same quantity as in the recent; but the central pari of the tooth has its animal substance in the state of mucus, interspersed in the calcareous nutter.... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...tenacity, and can be washed off like wet dust; in some however it has a slight appearance of flakes. In the shark's tooth, or glosso.petra, the enamel is composed...of the tooth has its animal substance in the state :.f mucus interspersed in the calcareous mat. Jer. lu the fossil bones of sea animals, as the vertebrae... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...and can be washed <.ft° like wet dust ; in some however it has a slight appearance of flakes. In the shark's tooth, or glosso.petra, the enamel is composed...calcareous earth, and is nearly in the same quantity as in tlic recent ; but the central part of the tooth has its animal substance in the state of mucus interspersed... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 538 pages
...and can be washed off like wet dust ; in some however it has a slight appearance of flakes. In the shark's, tooth, or glosso-petra, the enamel is composed...state of mucus interspersed in the calcareous matter. In the fossil bones of sea animals, as the vertebrae of the whale, the animal part is in large quantity,... | |
 | Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum, John Quekett - 1852 - 286 pages
...the same circumstances as the preceding specimen, of which it appears to have formed a part. " In the shark's tooth, or glossopetra, the enamel is composed...state of mucus interspersed in the calcareous matter." — Observations on some Fossil Bones, by the late John Hunter, Esq., FRS, Philos. Trans. Ixxxiv. 1794,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 804 pages
...dust; in some, however, it has a slight appearance offtakes. In the shark's tooth, or glossopptra, the enamel is composed of animal substance and calcareous...state of mucus, interspersed in the calcareous matter. In die fossilbones of s^a-animals, as the vertebrae of the whale, the animal part is in large quantity,... | |
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... wet dust ; in some however it has a slight appearance of flakes. In the shark's, tooth, or glosso-petra, the enamel is composed of animal substance and calcareous earth, and is, nearly in the same quantity as in the recent ; but the central part of... 