The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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Page 72
... living creature . Remember the crocodile or alligator floating silently down the muddy stream , so like the trunk of a tree , that the unwary animal drinking on the margin only sees the deception for a moment , when the tree suddenly ...
... living creature . Remember the crocodile or alligator floating silently down the muddy stream , so like the trunk of a tree , that the unwary animal drinking on the margin only sees the deception for a moment , when the tree suddenly ...
Page 84
... living eyeless creatures are found- more particularly a number of different kinds of insects . The number of genera and different forms yet known is few , but the number of species is considerable - almost every freshly examined cave ...
... living eyeless creatures are found- more particularly a number of different kinds of insects . The number of genera and different forms yet known is few , but the number of species is considerable - almost every freshly examined cave ...
Page 87
... living under the same conditions , and having the same facies as our pus ; sufficiently distinct to be made into a separate genus , but a genus taking its place next to Epus . It may be said , that if my views on this point were really ...
... living under the same conditions , and having the same facies as our pus ; sufficiently distinct to be made into a separate genus , but a genus taking its place next to Epus . It may be said , that if my views on this point were really ...
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... living beings which have peopled the district at more than one era may have subsequently been mingled in such caverns , and con- founded together in one and the same deposit . The facts , however , recently brought to light during the ...
... living beings which have peopled the district at more than one era may have subsequently been mingled in such caverns , and con- founded together in one and the same deposit . The facts , however , recently brought to light during the ...
Page 131
... living species , I believe the antiquity of the Abbeville and Amiens flint instru- ments to be great indeed , if compared to the times of history or tradi- tion . I consider the gravel to be of fluviatile origin ; but I could detect ...
... living species , I believe the antiquity of the Abbeville and Amiens flint instru- ments to be great indeed , if compared to the times of history or tradi- tion . I consider the gravel to be of fluviatile origin ; but I could detect ...
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