The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 էջ |
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... Animals · IX . On the general Analogy of Animal and Vegetable Life X. On the Principle of Life , Irritability , and Muscular Power . XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk , Feathers , and other hard or solid Parts ...
... Animals · IX . On the general Analogy of Animal and Vegetable Life X. On the Principle of Life , Irritability , and Muscular Power . XI . On the Bones , Cartilages , Teeth , Hair , Wool , Silk , Feathers , and other hard or solid Parts ...
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... animals . It is here , also , that carbonaceous matter , which is chiefly of vegetable origin , first makes its ap- pearance in any considerable quantity . To this class of rocks , therefore , M. Werner has given the name of TRANSI TION ...
... animals . It is here , also , that carbonaceous matter , which is chiefly of vegetable origin , first makes its ap- pearance in any considerable quantity . To this class of rocks , therefore , M. Werner has given the name of TRANSI TION ...
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... animals as the elephant , the tapir , the rhinoceros , the hippopotamus , the mammoth , or mastodon , animals now only found in the torrid regions , could have existed in these northern parts of the globe . M. de Marschall endeavoured ...
... animals as the elephant , the tapir , the rhinoceros , the hippopotamus , the mammoth , or mastodon , animals now only found in the torrid regions , could have existed in these northern parts of the globe . M. de Marschall endeavoured ...
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... animals , and especially the testaceous worms , that M. Cuvier is inclined to ascribe all the calcareous rocks that enter into the solid crust of the earth to an animal origin . * But this is to suppose the earth of a far higher ...
... animals , and especially the testaceous worms , that M. Cuvier is inclined to ascribe all the calcareous rocks that enter into the solid crust of the earth to an animal origin . * But this is to suppose the earth of a far higher ...
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... animals as yet created , since the air and the water , and the utmost peaks of the loftiest mountains , were the only parts as yet inhabitable . It tells us , still continuing the same grand and exquisite climax , that towards the close ...
... animals as yet created , since the air and the water , and the utmost peaks of the loftiest mountains , were the only parts as yet inhabitable . It tells us , still continuing the same grand and exquisite climax , that towards the close ...
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