Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness |
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Page 95
... resemble little hillocks , perforated at their base by single lines of thickly - set caves ; while seen from above , ( a , ) the narrow piers of bone by which the caves are divided take the form of rays . The reader will scarce fail to ...
... resemble little hillocks , perforated at their base by single lines of thickly - set caves ; while seen from above , ( a , ) the narrow piers of bone by which the caves are divided take the form of rays . The reader will scarce fail to ...
Page 151
... resemblance which existed in certain minds , having carti- lage for its general idea ; just as another certain perception of resemblance in one other certain mind had cuticular skeleton for its general idea , and as yet another ...
... resemblance which existed in certain minds , having carti- lage for its general idea ; just as another certain perception of resemblance in one other certain mind had cuticular skeleton for its general idea , and as yet another ...
Page 156
... resemblance , having cartilage for its general idea , to which the author of the " Vestiges " attaches so much importance , that has served mainly to retard their progress . Not a few of the more dis- tinguished among their number ...
... resemblance , having cartilage for its general idea , to which the author of the " Vestiges " attaches so much importance , that has served mainly to retard their progress . Not a few of the more dis- tinguished among their number ...
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