Popular cyclopaedia of natural science (by W.B. Carpenter). |
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... include all the characters which are of any importance . Thus we find that each Genus commonly includes a number of Species , differing from each other ( it may be ) in little else than size and colour , and agreeing in every other ...
... include all the characters which are of any importance . Thus we find that each Genus commonly includes a number of Species , differing from each other ( it may be ) in little else than size and colour , and agreeing in every other ...
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... includes the well - known Goldfinch , Hawfinch , Bullfinch , Gros- beak , Sparrow , Chaffinch , Brambling , and many other birds , all having a stout conical bill , slightly bent down near its point . This family , with others in which ...
... includes the well - known Goldfinch , Hawfinch , Bullfinch , Gros- beak , Sparrow , Chaffinch , Brambling , and many other birds , all having a stout conical bill , slightly bent down near its point . This family , with others in which ...
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... include those that formerly tenanted the globe , as well as those that at present inhabit it . A very slight knowledge of Fossil Zoology is sufficient to convince the Naturalist ... includes a 48 IMPORTANCE OF STUDY OF FOSSILS IN ZOOLOGY .
... include those that formerly tenanted the globe , as well as those that at present inhabit it . A very slight knowledge of Fossil Zoology is sufficient to convince the Naturalist ... includes a 48 IMPORTANCE OF STUDY OF FOSSILS IN ZOOLOGY .
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William Benjamin Carpenter. RECOGNITION OF FOSSILS . 49 class Mammalia , includes a small number of large animals- the Elephant , Rhinoceros , Tapir , Hippopotamus , & c . — which stand completely apart , as it were , from each other ...
William Benjamin Carpenter. RECOGNITION OF FOSSILS . 49 class Mammalia , includes a small number of large animals- the Elephant , Rhinoceros , Tapir , Hippopotamus , & c . — which stand completely apart , as it were , from each other ...
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... A more detailed account of each will be given at the commence- ment of that division of the work , which treats of the classes it CHARACTERS DRAWN FROM NERVOUS SYSTEM . 75 includes . But 74 VERTEBRATED TYPE OF STRUCTURE .
... A more detailed account of each will be given at the commence- ment of that division of the work , which treats of the classes it CHARACTERS DRAWN FROM NERVOUS SYSTEM . 75 includes . But 74 VERTEBRATED TYPE OF STRUCTURE .
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adapted Africa allied America animals appears aquatic arrangement Asia attack Bats beak bill Birds Birds of Prey body bones breed burrows canines carnivorous Cetacea characters chiefly clavicle claws colour common complete conformation considerable consists covered destitute developed distinct distinguished domesticated eggs Europe exist extremely Falcons feathers feed feet Fishes flight furnished genus ground habits hair head horns Hyæna incisors inhabit insects known large number larvæ legs Lemurs length less limbs live Lizards Mammalia Mammals mandible molars mollusks Monkeys movements muscles native natural Naturalist nearly neck nest organs Ornithorhyncus oviparous Pachydermata peculiar PHYSIOL plastron plumage points possess present prey Quadrumana quadrupeds races regarded remarkable Reptiles resemblance Rodentia Ruminantia short side skin slender sometimes species sternum structure surface tail teeth tion toes trees tribe usually vegetable vertebral vertebral column Vertebrata Whale whilst wings young
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Page 16 - There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees...
Page 17 - Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose...
Page 17 - ... finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of...
Page 321 - Man, being pursued solely for its tusks ; but this was the species known to the ancient Romans. 288. A third species of Elephant, commonly known as the Mammoth, formerly existed in Northern Asia in great abundance; as is proved by the vast number of tusks and bones which are found buried in the frozen soil of Siberia. The tusks form a regular article of commerce, and are employed throughout Russia as the ordinary ivory of the turner. A complete carcase of the animal was found at the beginning of...
Page 17 - ... we call Barnakles, in the north of England Brant Geese, and in Lancashire tree Geese ; but the other that do fall upon the land, perish and come to nothing : thus much by the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth.
Page 568 - Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Plesiosaurus, — a genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light by the researches of the geologist. and submitted to our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth.
Page 17 - ... when it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string : next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
Page 62 - ... which is a conscious violation of what is thought to be a natural law, but is not ; and an Objective Sin, a conscious violation of what is a natural law. In each case the integrity of consciousness is disturbed. So much for the definition of terms. There may be various Degrees of Error and of Sin. It is not easy to say where one begins and the other ends ; for in ethics as in all science, it is not easy to distinguish things by their circumferences, where they blend, but only by their centres,...
Page 325 - I at length found myself,' says he, 'as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred skeletons of more than twenty kinds of animals piled confusedly around me : the task assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every bone, and fragment of a bone, resumed its place.
Page 137 - which constitutes the 'hand, properly so called, is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects — -a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in man, in whom the whole anterior extremity is free, and can be employed in prehension.