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  On the Geological Relations and Internal Structure of the Magnesian Limestone and the Lower Portions of the New Red Sandstone Series


id: 14279
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  On the Geological Position and Geographical Distribution of the Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Bristol Area"--''Quart


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  | | Proximal | Midway | Distal --------------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------


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  | | 24.3 | | 13.9 | 6.2 | 5.3 2949 | | 24.7 | | 13.9 | 6.1 | 5.5 2950 | | | 14.1 | 13.5 | | 5.7 3127 | | | | 13.5 | 6.0 | 5.7 3128


id: 38015
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Heliodorus the Philosopher''s Poem to the Emperor Theodosius the Great on the Mystic Art of the Philosophers


id: 42043
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  The Lias and Oolyte of Britain and Europe afforded the first full display of the marine fauna of the world since the era of the Subcarboniferous


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  distribution:-- --------------------+------------------+----------------+---------------- Genera | Ethiopian | Oriental | Neotropical | Region


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  Lucinidæ | |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--| | Ammonitidæ | | |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--| | | | | | Naticidæ


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  | | |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--| | Pectinidæ, Solenidæ | | | |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--| | Cerithiadæ, Littorinidæ


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  Volutidæ | | | | | | | | |--|--|--|--|--|--| | Auriculidæ, Cyclostomidæ | | | | | | | | |--|--|--|--|--|--| | Mactridæ | | | | | | | | |--|--|--|--|--|--| | Limacidæ | | | | | | | | | | |--|--|--|--| | Argonautidæ | | | | | | | | | | | | |--|--| | Tridacnidæ | | | | | | | | | | | | |--|--| +


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id: 14279
author: Nicholson, Henry Alleyne
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  life-forms--Geological range of different species--Persistent types of life--Modern origin of existing animals and plants--Reference of fossil forms to the existing primary divisions of the animal groups of animals and plants--Succession in time of the great Group of Fishes from the Devonian rocks of North America. calcareous matter formed _in place_, by the growth of shell-fish, the animal remains contained in these deposits--the fossils of some is represented in the Lower Silurian rocks by numerous Corals. group is represented by a great number of forms, sometimes of general change of _species_ the Upper Silurian animals belong for of great thickness; and these two groups of beds together form (4) _Lower Helderberg Group_.--The Upper Silurian period in North Almost all the known forms of this period belong to the two great [Illustration: Fig. 60.--Upper Silurian Star-fishes. corals and shells, and appearing in many specific forms (figs. [Illustration: Fig. 102.--Fishes of the Devonian rocks of America.

title:
  The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science


id: 30260
title: A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas
author: Dalquest, Walter Woelber
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  UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, =Cynarctus fortidens= new species _Holotype._--Right maxilla bearing P3, P4, and M1, No. 11353 _Referred material._--Fragment of right lower mandible bearing m2, No. 11354 KU (see fig. 2. _Cynarctus fortidens_, No. 11354 KU (Midwestern 2. _Cynarctus fortidens_, No. 11354 KU (Midwestern Lateral view of right lower mandible and m2 × 1 and cusp between protocone and paracone of fourth upper (see page 225 of Two New Fossil Dogs of the Genus Cynarctus fortidens_ differs in lacking, instead of having, an accessory cusp between the protocone and Possibly the lower jaw and upper jaw are from two species but Canidae instead of to the family Procyonidae have been stated The holotype of _Cynarctus crucidens_ is from Williams fortidens_.--P3-M1, length,


id: 30217
title: Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
author: Jones, J. Knox
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  Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Some of the Pleistocene mammals from San Josecito Cave, near Aramberri, portion of the San Josecito material to the University of Kansas for concerns material from San Josecito Cave. tetralophodon_ on a specimen from San Josecito. The San Josecito Cave collections are currently the property of the Los from San Josecito Cave, to Dr. Robert W. _Remarks._--The long-nosed bats from San Josecito Cave do not differ measurements of 22 specimens from San Josecito Cave, followed in The San Josecito specimens average larger than the San Josecito Cave, near Aramberri, Nuevo León, México. under whose direction the fossil materials from San Josecito Cave were _Desmodus stocki_, San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León Pleistocene Soricidae from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. The cave of San Josecito, Mexico. Bears from the Pleistocene cave of San Josecito, Nuevo Leon,


id: 30297
title: Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan
author: Clemens, William Alvin
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  Two fossils of Orellan age, found in northeastern Colorado _Sinclairella dakotensis_ Jepsen, part of a sample of a Chadronian New Jersey; RAM-UCR, Raymond Alf Museum, Webb School of descriptions of the type specimen are given in papers by Jepsen (1934) locality in Nebraska and fossils of Orellan age, also referable to _S. dakotensis_, have been collected at two localities in Colorado. _Description and comments._--The cusps of RAM-UCR no. 1. _Sinclairella dakotensis_ Jepsen, KU no. 1. _Sinclairella dakotensis_ Jepsen, KU no. P4 of the type specimen of _Sinclairella dakotensis_ different in size (table 1) or morphology of the cusps. 2. _Sinclairella dakotensis_ Jepsen, UCM no. right M2; Orellan, Weld County, Colorado; drawing by Mrs. Judith Hood: A small stylar cusp is present specimen from each of two Orellan fossil localities in northeastern of apatemyids described subsequently (note McKenna, 1960, figs. are discovered, the Orellan fossils described here are referred to


id: 30620
title: Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma
author: Fox, Richard C.
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  the author recovered several tooth-bearing fragments of small _Type specimen._--Fragmentary left maxilla, bearing four teeth, KU 11118; fragmentary left maxilla having four teeth, the most posterior of the maxillary fragments bears four thecodont teeth. enlargement of any of the teeth, the longest tooth of each fragment extra-maxillary length of the undamaged teeth of the three fragments is recurvature of the four teeth present in the fragments of _Delorhynchus_ surfaces of the maxillary fragments indicate that _Delorhynchus_, in _Type specimen._--Fragmentary left dentary, bearing five teeth, the _Horizon and locality._--From the early Permian fissure deposits in the KU 11122, a fragment of the left dentary bearing two teeth, is 7.5 mm. The ?maxillary fragment bears two teeth which are 3.0 mm. _The Fort Sill Locality._--Peabody (1961) suggested that the fissures of Permian, and that the unusually abundant bones in the fissures were the concentration of bones in the fissures of Fort Sill represents the


id: 31050
title: A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas
author: Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
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  surface probably fitted on a lateral process extending from the roof of The posterior edge is slightly concave and in part forms the anterior nasal and maxillary, and extends to the anterior edge of the orbit. lateral view, showing relatively large orbit and absence of smaller The dorsal margin of the orbit appears to be formed by the frontal. distance of 0.5 mm., the anterior edge bordering the frontal bone and posterior edge of the orbital fenestra, which opens ventrally, is 10.0 Probably the whole posterior surface of the braincase A, occipital view of skull; B, basioccipital bone in dorsal view of incomplete vertebra, probably near anterior end of column. Neural arch and intercentrum in end view, showing probable association. The shape, in end view, of a partly preserved neural arch (Fig. 7 A) posterior edge near the distal end, probably homologous with (1) the


id: 26542
author: Wortman, Jacob Lawson
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  _On the Affinities of Leptarctus primus of Leidy._ Article VIII.--ON THE AFFINITIES OF LEPTARCTUS PRIMUS OF LEIDY. =Leptarctus primus= _Leidy_. The first premolar is not preserved, but its alveolus indicates that it was a single-rooted tooth, placed behind the canine after the to these cusps a distinct basal cingulum, most prominent in the region the third premolar the posterior cusp is much better developed, and deep and prominent, and the coronoid is high and broad. The jaw of _Leptarctus_ differs from that of _Cercoleptes_ in the extent; the condyle is not placed so high; the angle is elevated above but differs from that of _Leptarctus_ in having an external groove as premolars in the lower jaw; the middle one, however, has only a single cusp upon the crown, whereas _Leptarctus_ has two. jaw, the reduction of the number of premolars, the reduction in size

title:
  On The Affinities of Leptarctus primus of Leidy American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VI, Article VIII, pp. 229-331.


id: 1043
title: The Story of Evolution
author: McCabe, Joseph
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  of living nature to-day, that for ages the early organisms had no hard life will be, to a great extent, the story of how animals and plants time little one-celled living units appeared in the waters of the earth, Two groups were developed from the primitive fish, which have great age, when large continents, with great inland seas, existed in North types for freer life, and the earth will pass into a new age. advancing life that a new type of organism has its period of triumph, the evolution of the higher types of land-life. Returning to the water, the primitive insects would develop gills, like The remaining land-life of the Coal-forest is confined to worm-like important preparation of the earth for higher land animals and plants. a period of low-lying land, great sea-invasions, and genial climate, Miocene period there is a great development of the horse-like mammals.


id: 2627
title: On the Method of Zadig Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  fined Zadig four hundred ounces of gold for saying he had seen Zadig admitted that he had never either seen or heard of the horse of The tracks were exactly like those which dogs and horses leave; In fact, Zadig''s method was nothing we admit the validity of Zadig''s great principle, that like effects imply like causes, and that the process of reasoning from a shell, or a tooth, or a bone, to the nature of the animal to which it belonged, the animal which fabricated the Belemnite was more like _Nautilus,_ or confidently about the animal of the Belemnite, as Zadig was respecting retrospective prophecy of those who interpreted the facts of the case by But it may be said that the method of Zadig, which is simple reasoning made them had a tail like that of a horse, Cuvier, seeing that the teeth


id: 2628
title: The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  adequate investigation of the fossil remains of any large group of the animal kingdom the number of fossil forms already known is as great which our present knowledge of the facts of palaeontology and of those shells of existing marine or freshwater animals, they must have been Steno to the fossil bones of vertebrated animals, whether aquatic predict that the fossil belonged to an animal of the same group. When it was admitted that fossils are remains of animals freshwater, animals and plants, they are evidences of the existence of remains of fishes and of plants of which no species now exist in our the earth; that fossil remains indicate different climatal conditions The succession of the species of animals and plants in time being propositions: the first is, that fossils are the remains of animals and present time as the epoch in which the law of succession of the forms of


id: 2634
title: The Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image must be assumed to have worshipped Jacob''s God, Jahveh, had carried off, as "strange gods" even as late as the eighth century B.C. The writer of the books of Samuel takes it quite as a matter of course prohibition to worship any supreme god other than Jahveh, which precedes spiritual existences known as Elohim, of whom Jahveh, the national God of Israel, is one; that, consistently with this view, Jahveh was as Saul dealt with the priests of the sanctuary of Jahveh at Nob. Nevertheless, Finow showed his practical belief in the gods during the books of Samuel without discovering that the old Israelites had a moral Israelites of the time of Samuel and Saul, is (to say the least) by no Therefore Saul said unto Jahveh, the Elohim of Israel, Shew the God I have substituted Jahveh and Elohim.]


id: 2629
title: Lectures on Evolution Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  came into existence at no great distance of time from the present; of existing animals and plants are taken by other forms, as numerous and present condition of things has existed for a comparatively short indications of the existence of terrestrial animals, other than birds, aquatic animals existed at a period as far antecedent to the deposition know of not the slightest evidence of the existence of birds before the period as four thousand years, no form of the hypothesis of evolution animals which are so closely allied to existing forms that, at one time, these remains, and present the appearance of beds of rock formed under of organic remains in a deposit, that animals or plants did not exist tertiary rocks; but, so far as our present knowledge goes, the birds of all existing birds, and so far resembles reptiles, in one important teeth, the _Hesperornis_ differs from every existing bird, and from


id: 2633
title: Hasisadra''s Adventure Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  coming of a great flood; and it warned Hasisadra to lose no time in for believing that the story of Hasisadra''s flood was well known in conditions and the climate of the Euphrates valley, at that time, must evidence that it did happen--is to be accepted, surely Hasisadra''s story year of Noah''s age in which the flood began, the Pentateuchal story adds present site of the Dead Sea. From this time forth, the level of great Jordan-Arabah mere reached its highest level coincides with the In fact, the antiquity of the present Jordan-Arabah valley, as a hollow recent change of the sea level to the extent of 250 or 300 feet, the time at which the valley was occupied by the great mere. waters of the Dead Sea would become diluted; its level would rise; it that time onward, it has ever been covered by sea water.


id: 2632
title: The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  histories of the time tell us what the King said, and what Bishop Juxon after generation, down to modern times, as stories of unquestionable narratives of apparently real events have no more value as history than "Adam, according to the Hebrew original, was for 243 years contemporary history of Abraham, and even of the Deluge, at third hand; and that of length, with the narrative of the Noachian Deluge given in Genesis. permit myself to hope that a long criticism of the story from the point Pentateuchal writer about the fact of the Deluge, would leave the ascertained physical facts, the story of the Noachian Deluge has no more one conclusion--that the story of the Flood in Genesis is merely a place; further, that, in point of fact, the story, in the plain and regarded as one of those pre-Abrahamic narratives, the historical truth [Footnote 1: _Bampton Lectures_ (1859), on "The Historical Evidence of


id: 2631
title: Mr. Gladstone and Genesis Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  reply, I cannot get away from my original conviction that, if Mr. Gladstone''s second proposition can be shown to be not merely inaccurate, but I think it counts for a good deal that Mr. Gladstone appears to have animals, are creeping things in the sense of the pentateuchal writer or Mr. Gladstone speaks of the author of the first chapter of Genesis as that natural science does not "affirm" the statement that birds were "plants, fishes, birds, mammals, and man," which, Mr. Gladstone affirms, And if, in a geological book, Mr. Gladstone finds the quite true statement that plants appeared before in which case mammals (which is what, I suppose, Mr. Gladstone means by far as it deals with matters of fact, may be taken seriously, as meaning speculations of the writer of Genesis; and, as I think that Mr. Gladstone might have been able to put his case with a good deal more


id: 2630
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  affirmed in our time by natural science, that it may be taken as tends to show that the water, air, and land-populations of the globe I apprehend that when Mr. Gladstone uses the term "water-population" he Invertebrate _air_ and _land_population (Flying Insects and Scorpions). The water-population of vertebrated animals first appears in the Upper natural science says that the order of succession was water, land, and air-population, and not--as Mr. Gladstone, founding himself on Genesis, says--water, air, land-population. Yet natural science "affirms" his "fourfold order" to exactly the same evolution as applied to animals, Mr. Gladstone''s gloss on Genesis in the the succession of animal life which Mr. Gladstone finds in Genesis. the water-population, as a whole, appeared before the air and the which now compose our water, land, and air-populations, have come into If we represent the water, land, and air-populations by _a, b,_ and _c_

title:
  The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"


id: 34056
title: Remarks on some fossil impressions in the sandstone rocks of Connecticut River
author: Warren, John Collins
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  animals of the tortoise kind, having four feet, and five toes on each feet of birds, other animals, vegetables, and also of rain-drops, greater part of the impressions are called _new red sandstone_, to impressions resembling the feet of birds in sandstone rocks of that The number of toes in existing birds varies from two to five. fossil bird-tracks, the most frequent number is three, called each measuring ten by six feet, having a great number of impressions present the same divisions with existing birds; the inner toe having The reversed surface of this slab contains one tridactylous impression differs from that of birds in the number of toes pointing forwards; We have in this group a specimen of the track of a four-footed animal, unequal in size, and present a different number of toes. To the vegetable impressions discovered among the sandstone rocks a


id: 39674
author: Webb, W. E. (William Edward)
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  WE SEE BUFFALO--ARRIVAL AT HAYS--GENERAL SHERIDAN AT THE FORT--INDIAN wild tribes the conditions are reversed--the Indian robs the white man. great grass-covered plains that we wander over delightedly to-day. The grass which covers the great plains of the Far West is more like One old fellow, evidently a leader in Buffalo Land, with long "Dobeen''s coming this way, at a bloody good run, and the buffalo after WHITE WOLF, THE CHEYENNE CHIEF--HUNGRY INDIANS--RETURN TO HAYS--A WHITE WOLF, THE CHEYENNE CHIEF--HUNGRY INDIANS--RETURN TO HAYS--A Let these savages of the plains meet a white man, As night came on, the moon went up in a great rush of light, like the A mile away buffalo were feeding in large numbers, and our men pointed surface of the plains shed the waters like a roof; streams rose ten feet day out, two old buffaloes, near our road, were selected as good

title:
  Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West


id: 32187
title: Pleistocene Soricidae from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
author: Findley, James S. (James Smith)
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  removed from San Josecito Cave near Aramberri, Nuevo León, México. One right ramus, bearing all three molars but lacking the other teeth and the tip of the coronoid process, needs close comparison only with certain of the smaller North American species of _Sorex_. northern British Columbia and the specimen from Nuevo León differ from extension of the known Pleistocene or Recent range of this species of In possessing this foramen the fossils differ from most individuals of the species: _Sorex cinereus_, _S. post-mandibular foramen include _Sorex saussurei_, _S. _Sorex trowbridgii_ is similar to the fossils and to _S. _Sorex arcticus_ differs in larger incisor and _Sorex tundrensis_ differs in relatively narrower molars. compared the fossils also with the Pliocene and Pleistocene _Sorex The San Josecito collection contains 22 rami of a species of with specimens of the following species of _Cryptotis_: _C. The rami of San Josecito specimens closely resemble those of _C.


id: 33925
title: The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight
author: Hughes, J. Cecil (John Cecil)
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  those strata, the white chalk cliffs and the coloured sands, the of limestone and beds of clay, in cliffs of sandstone or of chalk, we Does sand on a sea shore ever become hard like rock, so that shells gradually layer after layer of sand and mud cover the sea bed round great river like the Niger, for the Wealden strata stretch,--often we come upon Wealden strata somewhat older than any in Sandown Bay. The shore at the Point at low tide is seen to be strewn with the this lies what is called the Lower Lobster bed, a brown clay and sand, sediment forming the clay points to a further sinking of the sea bed. in a gravel bed formed of flints worn out of the chalk by denudation. The Chalk strata in the Isle of Wight are of great thickness. sea, and beds deposited at the mouth of great rivers, where remains of


id: 34412
author: Galbreath, Edwin C. (Edwin Carter)
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  the anterior part of a skull of _Heliscomys_ in the middle Oligocene posteroexternal cusp (metacone) anterior to central (hypocone) and lingual (entostyle) cusps, which are connected by a cingulum; internal of each cingulum opposite the straight median valley; rostrum deep and appearance to the rostrum of the Recent heteromyids, when viewed The frontal bone dorsally is relatively narrower than in any Recent the frontal bone meets the orbital processes of the palatine and of the lateral wall of the incisive (anterior palatine) foramen. wall of the root canal being formed by the upper surface of the bone. plate of bone, and embraces the posterior and lateral sides of the The maxillary process of the left palatine bone is united to palatine bone, posteromedial to the third molar, is the foramen orbital process of the maxillary bone, and the sphenopalatine foramen is cusps with the anterior cingulum.

title:
  A New Species of Heteromyid Rodent from the Middle Oligocene of Northeast Colorado with Remarks on the Skull


id: 38015
title: De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556
author: Agricola, Georg
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  kinds of metals, namely gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and lead. silver, gold, tin, copper, iron, or lead ore, in which they all appear speak of _rudis_ gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, tin, bismuth, lead, contain any gold, silver, copper, or lead, and yet it is not a pure gold, silver, copper, or lead, they are mixed in precisely the same way small scale, with the smelting of silver, lead, copper, and tin ores of gold, silver, lead, copper, tin, bismuth, quicksilver, and iron of The ores of gold, silver, copper, and lead, are smelted in a furnace by appear that the lead-copper bullion was melted again with iron ore and at a time are placed in the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated chapters one each to silver, gold, tin, copper, iron, lead, and The ores of gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, and iron are


id: 38013
title: Animals of the Past
author: Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus)
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  Earliest birds, 70; wings, 71; study of young animals, 73; the be considered as fossils; while the bones of many species of animals, we come upon a fossil bone, long since turned into stone, on which are first known member of the great group of backboned animals at whose head tracing back the history of animal life by means of fossil remains, but preserved specimens of another little fish-like creature, rarely if ever animal believed to be extinct had really lived over to the present day. very long neck and tail, and, for the size of the animal, a very small the largest animal of his time, upward of twenty-five feet in length, it comparing the bones of extinct animals with those of creatures that are shown, and that is by collecting the fossil remains of animals long reckon by years, we come upon a number of animals very much like horses,


id: 42043
title: Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory
author: Price, George McCready
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  modern world, together with the great outstanding fact that human have at this great world-crisis left their fossils in the rocks all over these rocks, we have successive ages of various types of life, with question--Were the British Cretaceous rocks deposited at the same time rock was forming in one locality, =a totally different kind of deposit= fossils would in many cases be found to occur only in particular rocks, contained fossils the supreme test of the age of a rock deposit, we are the antagonism between the facts of the rocks and the theory of life the fossils can be said to occur as regards succession in time. containing =few= extinct forms, or nearly all living species, are Another great general fact about the fossil world may be stated about as saying that the evidence is conclusive that all geological time down to There is another great general fact about the fossil world which seems


id: 42584
title: Extinct Monsters A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life
author: Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville)
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  discovery of the long-tailed feathered bird with teeth--the reptile, with very small head and teeth, about twenty feet in length, Pterodactyls--Long-necked Sea-lizard--Cuttle-fish Down in those old seas and lakes she kept her great museum, in order Cuvier''s great work, entitled _Ossemens Fossiles_, will long remain an animal life took place, whereby, in the course of evolution, new types future discoveries of extinct forms of animal and plant life as fragments of bone he could restore the skeleton of an entire animal, More than twenty species of long-necked sea-lizards are known to Professor Owen, in his great work on _British Fossil Reptiles_, when long-necked sea-lizards were descended from an earlier form of land limb-bone in the Oxford Museum, from the great Oolite formation near limb-bones may be seen at the British Museum of Natural History, side [Illustration: Fig. 12.--Lower jaw-bone of Megalosaurus, with teeth.] limb-bones, and they also indicated a reptile of great size.


id: 42741
title: The Story of the Earth and Man
author: Dawson, John William, Sir
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  of the Neozoic.--Great Eocene Seas.--Land Animals old world, rocks of this age do not, so far as known, appear so representatives of all the great groups of animals which yet exist, animals have run through a great number of different forms, these in which the forms of Lower Silurian life continued to exist until forms, have existed from the Silurian to the present time. water, and the great continental plateaus were changed from coral seas great coal measures of the middle portion as the type of the land life those great low plains formed by the elevation of the former sea bed. fishes of the coal period very probably had, like their modern the sea, and notice the animal life of the great coral reefs and shell The next or closing period of this great Mesozoic time brought a prevalence of the modern types of coral animals and of a great number


id: 56507
author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
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  {31}tropical America, only one species extending south as far as Chili. species) an isolated family of waders, ranging over the whole sub-region perch family, has five species confined to the fresh waters of South The genera of birds peculiar to this sub-region belong to the following species of which are grouped into six sub-families and 13 genera. Sub-family VIVERRINÆ.--_Viverra_ (3 species), North and tropical Africa, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions; _Athylax_ (3 species), Tropical and South species found in South America are peculiar to the Neotropical region. species of the family inhabits the northern half of South America. America from Brazil to Mexico; 4 genera and 8 species occur in Tropical sub-region, while 9 of the genera extend into Tropical North America. the genera and species form two groups, one in South Africa, the other in the Neotropical region with 2 families and 6 peculiar genera; the to Africa and South America, distinct genera inhabiting each region.

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  The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth''s surface


id: 59074
title: Australasian Fossils: A Students'' Manual of Palaeontology
author: Chapman, Frederick
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  [Illustration: =Fig. 10.--A Fossil Shell (Pecten murrayanus, Tate).= in the Trias of Gosford, New South Wales (Fig. 18), and in the Jurassic River cliffs in South Australia, a bed of Cainozoic limestone contains Victoria and Queensland (Fig. 57): in New South Wales it is found at Mt. Lambie, Goonoo, Tamworth and Copeland in beds generally regarded as Upper localities in New South Wales as well as in Queensland (Fig. 58). oolitic limestones of Carboniferous age in Queensland and New South Wales. rocks of Middle Devonian age at Tamworth in New South Wales (Fig. 66). New South Wales contain several genera of Corals belonging to the group occur in the Cainozoic or Tertiary beds of South Australia, Victoria and Carbopermian (Upper Jurassic Series), near East Maitland, New South Wales In the Upper Devonian of New South Wales abundant remains occur of both _Pentamerus australis_, McCoy. Silurian: Victoria and New South Wales.


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author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
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  Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds of the Palæarctic Region Genera of Terrestrial Mammalia and Birds in the Oriental Region (p. as forming with Europe and North Asia one great region. birds, and not many genera, are wholly confined to the Palæarctic region, a The next, or Mediterranean sub-region, comprises South Europe, North Africa land birds, altogether confined to it; these peculiar genera forming in several peculiar genera of birds which are all allied to Australian types. so rich in peculiar forms of animal life both in North America and Europe. become peculiar to the region by the recent extinction of an allied form or The remaining genera and species of temperate or north-European birds, do that South Africa possesses 18 peculiar genera of Mammalia, 12 of Birds, 18 GENERA OF TERRESTRIAL MAMMALIA AND BIRDS INHABITING THE ORIENTAL REGION. 19 genera in the family are {395}peculiar to the Australian region.

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  The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth''s surface


