Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness |
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... present state ; and , of course , as it is still , as a world , confessedly far below the acme of physical perfection , that it must be just now on its pas- sage , self - progressing , towards that point , which terminus it may reach in ...
... present state ; and , of course , as it is still , as a world , confessedly far below the acme of physical perfection , that it must be just now on its pas- sage , self - progressing , towards that point , which terminus it may reach in ...
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... PRESENT TIME : CONNECTED BY A CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY . EDITED BY ROBERT CHAMBERS . ASSISTED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS AND OTHER EMINENT GENTLEMEN . Complete in two imperial octavo volumes , of more than fourteen hundred pages of ...
... PRESENT TIME : CONNECTED BY A CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY . EDITED BY ROBERT CHAMBERS . ASSISTED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS AND OTHER EMINENT GENTLEMEN . Complete in two imperial octavo volumes , of more than fourteen hundred pages of ...
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... present state of knowledge , so illustrated as to be intelligible to the beginning student . No similar treatise now exists in this country , and indeed , some of the topics have not been touched upon in the language , unless in a ...
... present state of knowledge , so illustrated as to be intelligible to the beginning student . No similar treatise now exists in this country , and indeed , some of the topics have not been touched upon in the language , unless in a ...
Contents
THE TWO FLORAS MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL BEARING OF | 262 |
THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS IN ITS EMBRYONIC STATE OLDER | 277 |
FINAL CAUSES THEIR BEARING ON GEOLOGIC HISTORY CONCLU | 303 |
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Agassiz algæ ancient animals appear assertors Asterolepis bear bones Brachiopods brain Carboniferous cartilaginous centre cerebral character Christian Coccosteus Coelacanths coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creature degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth evidence exhibited existence fact fins flora formation fossil fucoids furnished Ganoids genera genus geological geologist greatly head higher Holoptychius human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites inches Lamarckian least lignite limbs Limestone Lower Old Red mammals ment Miller miracle molluscs nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization original osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period plants portion present principle Professor Pterichthys quadruped race rays reader regarding remarkable represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison scale scientific shagreen Sharks Silurian skeleton skull species specimens Spinax spines style surface tail teeth Thurso tion upper vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges