 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of 'he ancient earth, are at length recalled to light, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth. ' The plesiosauri appear to have lived in shallow... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth. VOL. LVI. NO. cxi. B perhaps perhaps the most... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 522 pages
...interment for thousands of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the antient earth, are at length recalled to light by the researches...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth.' Conybeare thus speaks of the supposed habits... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...interment for thousands of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the antient earth, are at length recalled to light by the researches...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth.' Conybeare thus speaks of the supposed habits... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1841 - 488 pages
...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 reseaches of the Geologist, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light, and submitted to our examination, in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the eartht. The Plesiosaurus appears to have lived in shallow... | |
 | 1840 - 524 pages
...interment for thousands of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the antient earth, are at length recalled to light by the researches...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth." Conybeare thus speaks of the supposed habits... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 1036 pages
...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...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the 647 PLESTIN. PLEURODONTS. 643 bones of specie! that are now existing upon the earth.' Conybeare thus... | |
 | Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum - Fishes, Fossil - 1854 - 214 pages
...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...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth." — Bridgewater Treatise, vol. ip 203. The... | |
 | William Garland Barrett - Earth (Planet) - 1855 - 340 pages
...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...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing on the earth." We add a word upon the uses of this portion of... | |
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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... 
