The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volume 5A. and C. Black, 1857 - Geology |
Contents
On the Tribual Government of the Ruder Nations | 1 |
On the Law of Phyllotaxis 7 Reproduction of Spho | 6 |
An Attempt to determine the Average Composition | 35 |
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acid actinapophyseal animal Annulose appears arrangement axis backwards beds Bird body branchial capsules cartilage cartilaginous catacentric cavity cephalic Chelonian chevron bones clans coast colour connected corresponding cranium Crocodile deposits developed direction elements elongated elytra ento-pterygoids ethmoidal neurapophyses ethmoidal sclerotome ethmoido-frontals extends external fibrous front frontal ganglions hæmal arch inches inferior intermaxillary iron lachrymal lamina larvæ lateral limb lower magnet Mammal Mammalian mandibular arch margin mass maxillary membrane mesial meta-neurapophyses morphological nasal bones nasal fossæ nasal septum neural arch neurapophyses nostrils observed occipital olfactory nerves orbit osseous Fish pair of neurapophyses palate bones palatines peculiar plate polypary polyps portion post-sphenoidal centrum post-stomal posterior pre-frontals present primordial cranium processes Professor Owen pterygoids quadrate bone relations remarkable Reptile rhinal sclerome segments septum side Silica so-called vomer somatomes species specimens sphenoidal stone structure surface temporal tion traces transverse tube upper Vertebrate visceral lamina vomer vomerine sclerotome