The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, 2. köide,8. number;8. köideCanadian Institute., 1863 |
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... position , the beaks of a parrot ) , and is surrounded by eight or ten arms , or by a greater number of tenta- cles , serving partly for locomotion , but chiefly for prehensile pur- poses . It is from the possession of these arms or ...
... position , the beaks of a parrot ) , and is surrounded by eight or ten arms , or by a greater number of tenta- cles , serving partly for locomotion , but chiefly for prehensile pur- poses . It is from the possession of these arms or ...
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... position . In the Nautilus , according to Professor Owen , this siphuncle opens into the cavity which contains the heart ; and its use , although still doubtful , is thought to be to keep up the vitality of the shell in parts distant ...
... position . In the Nautilus , according to Professor Owen , this siphuncle opens into the cavity which contains the heart ; and its use , although still doubtful , is thought to be to keep up the vitality of the shell in parts distant ...
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... position , as regards at least the types with simple septa , appears more especially to be a character of this kind ; but it may be questioned whether tho mere shape of the shell , although a readily observable character in most ...
... position , as regards at least the types with simple septa , appears more especially to be a character of this kind ; but it may be questioned whether tho mere shape of the shell , although a readily observable character in most ...
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... position . Three convenient , if not strictly natural , sub - genera , Orthoceras proper , Ormoceras , and Endoceras , may be founded on its characters . The genus ranges from the Lower Silurian into the Triassic forma- tion . In many ...
... position . Three convenient , if not strictly natural , sub - genera , Orthoceras proper , Ormoceras , and Endoceras , may be founded on its characters . The genus ranges from the Lower Silurian into the Triassic forma- tion . In many ...
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... position , or lying along the larger curve of the shell . Fig . 132 is a sketch of C. annulatum from the lower part of the Trenton group . Fig . 132 . In the second sub - genus , characterised by a large siphuncle as in the ...
... position , or lying along the larger curve of the shell . Fig . 132 is a sketch of C. annulatum from the lower part of the Trenton group . Fig . 132 . In the second sub - genus , characterised by a large siphuncle as in the ...
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Page 101 - Son of man that thou visitest him ? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.
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Page 51 - purpose,—while proving that there has been a plan glorious in its scheme and perfect in system, progressing through unmeasured ages and looking ever towards man and a spiritual end,—it leads to no other solution of the great problem of creation, whether of kinds of matter or of species of life, than this:—
Page 465 - Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. By Daniel Wilson, LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto; Author of " Prehistoric Man,
Page 390 - it into a shape more convenient for common purposes than I could find verbatim in his book—as I apprehend it, I say, it is, that all the phenomena of organic nature, past and present, result from, or are caused by, the inter-action of those properties of organic matter, which we have called ATAVISM and VARIABILITY, with the CONDITIONS
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Page 390 - demonstrated our hypothesis; or rather I ought to say, we shall have proved it as far as certainty is possible for us ; for, after all, there is no one of our surest convictions which may not be upset, or at any rate modified by a further accession of knowledge.
Page 328 - bank, the which his river hems Was painted all with variable flowers, And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems Fit to deck maidens' bowers.
Page 394 - this fact upon any other hypothesis or supposition than one of successive modification? But if the population of the world, in any age, is the result of the gradual modification of the forms which peopled it in the preceding age,—if that has been the case, it is intelligible enough; because we may expect that the creature