Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain - interwoven in one Since that time several other members of this community have been discovered . In 1846 , a new planet of greater magnitude was discovered beyond Uranus , and ...
... true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain - interwoven in one Since that time several other members of this community have been discovered . In 1846 , a new planet of greater magnitude was discovered beyond Uranus , and ...
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... true crinoidea do not make a prominent appearance in the Lower Silurians , and certainly not in such a style in England as to allow of species being determined . FIG . 6 . FIG . 5 . But there appears in these rocks what is considered by ...
... true crinoidea do not make a prominent appearance in the Lower Silurians , and certainly not in such a style in England as to allow of species being determined . FIG . 6 . FIG . 5 . But there appears in these rocks what is considered by ...
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... true conifers of the coal are comparatively rare , and are only as yet found in isolated cases , and in sandstone beds . One dis- covered in the Craigleith quarry , near Edinburgh , consisted of a stem about two feet thick , and forty ...
... true conifers of the coal are comparatively rare , and are only as yet found in isolated cases , and in sandstone beds . One dis- covered in the Craigleith quarry , near Edinburgh , consisted of a stem about two feet thick , and forty ...
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... true crocodilia largely developed , and five genera have been described , ( Teleosaurus , Steneosaurus , Cetiosaurus , & c . ) The two first are like crocodiles of our own time in all respects , except a somewhat greater bulk , and ...
... true crocodilia largely developed , and five genera have been described , ( Teleosaurus , Steneosaurus , Cetiosaurus , & c . ) The two first are like crocodiles of our own time in all respects , except a somewhat greater bulk , and ...
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... true chalk is wholly , or all but wholly absent . In the south of England , the lower beds are ( reckoning from the lowest upwards ) , 1 , Shankland or greensand , “ a triple alternation of sands and sandstones with clay ; " 2 , Gault ...
... true chalk is wholly , or all but wholly absent . In the south of England , the lower beds are ( reckoning from the lowest upwards ) , 1 , Shankland or greensand , “ a triple alternation of sands and sandstones with clay ; " 2 , Gault ...
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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...