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... inferior masses . The result would be - Planets and Satellites ; each having an orbitual speed corresponding with that of the zone constituting it ; each obtaining a rotatory motion from the excess of speed observed by the outer , over ...
... inferior masses . The result would be - Planets and Satellites ; each having an orbitual speed corresponding with that of the zone constituting it ; each obtaining a rotatory motion from the excess of speed observed by the outer , over ...
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... inferior variations which naturalists regard as constituting distinct species ; speaking strictly , out of about eight hundred so - called species of the Silurian epoch , one hundred pass into the Devonian formation , where , however ...
... inferior variations which naturalists regard as constituting distinct species ; speaking strictly , out of about eight hundred so - called species of the Silurian epoch , one hundred pass into the Devonian formation , where , however ...
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... inferior position of the mouth , peculiar to the early fishes . Moreover , in the early periods of embryonic life , there is no vertebral column , this organ being represented in embryos by a gelatinous cord , called the dorsal cord ...
... inferior position of the mouth , peculiar to the early fishes . Moreover , in the early periods of embryonic life , there is no vertebral column , this organ being represented in embryos by a gelatinous cord , called the dorsal cord ...
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... inferior strata . It appears as if , while some new species continued to present themselves , the animal kingdom was now generally undergoing a decay , for even specimens of particular families are less abundant than formerly . Instead ...
... inferior strata . It appears as if , while some new species continued to present themselves , the animal kingdom was now generally undergoing a decay , for even specimens of particular families are less abundant than formerly . Instead ...
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... inferior to superior classes there is here no interruption . Taking all things together , it seems the more reasonable supposition , that , notwithstanding conformableness of strata , a local suspension of deposits for a considerable ...
... inferior to superior classes there is here no interruption . Taking all things together , it seems the more reasonable supposition , that , notwithstanding conformableness of strata , a local suspension of deposits for a considerable ...
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...