The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... birds , and reptiles . 7. The Oolitic age . - Sea and land of the epoch . - Its vegetation , lower marine life , shell- fish , crustacea , insects , reptiles , and terrestrial mammals . 8 . The Cretaceous or Chalk age . - Physical ...
... birds , and reptiles . 7. The Oolitic age . - Sea and land of the epoch . - Its vegetation , lower marine life , shell- fish , crustacea , insects , reptiles , and terrestrial mammals . 8 . The Cretaceous or Chalk age . - Physical ...
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... bird , in that the bone of a mammal ; in this the grinder that milled the leafy twigs of the forest , in that the trenchant tooth that preyed on the flesh of other creatures . Every trace becomes a letter , every fragment a word , and ...
... bird , in that the bone of a mammal ; in this the grinder that milled the leafy twigs of the forest , in that the trenchant tooth that preyed on the flesh of other creatures . Every trace becomes a letter , every fragment a word , and ...
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... birds and rep- tiles , find their food and shelter among the acrogens and gymnogens , it is certainly to the endogens and exogens that the higher terrestrial animals turn for their main depend- ence . The formative or geological ...
... birds and rep- tiles , find their food and shelter among the acrogens and gymnogens , it is certainly to the endogens and exogens that the higher terrestrial animals turn for their main depend- ence . The formative or geological ...
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... birds flutter only over the flowers of the New World ; the pheasants are unknown beyond the coverts of the Old ; the shark - like cestraciont frequents alone the waters of the Southern Pacific ; and the trigonia never carries its shell ...
... birds flutter only over the flowers of the New World ; the pheasants are unknown beyond the coverts of the Old ; the shark - like cestraciont frequents alone the waters of the Southern Pacific ; and the trigonia never carries its shell ...
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... bird , or the bird from the quadruped ? It is in vain to tell us that the one is but a progressive or developmental form of the other — that the reptile is but a transmutation , in time and under new external conditions , from the fish ...
... bird , or the bird from the quadruped ? It is in vain to tell us that the one is but a progressive or developmental form of the other — that the reptile is but a transmutation , in time and under new external conditions , from the fish ...
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abundance acrogens affinities America annelids appear areas aspects become birds bivalves botanist brachiopods cainozoic carboniferous cephalopods chalk character characterised climate club-mosses coal corals creation creatures CRETACEOUS crust crustaceans cycads deposits Devonian dicotyledonous earth's encrinites endogens eocene epoch equisetums estuaries Europe eurypterus evidence existing nature exogens external conditions extinct exuberant ferns fishes flora and fauna forest forms fossil fragments functions gasteropods genera and species genial geological geologists gigantic globe glyptodons growth gymnogens higher indicated latitudes limestones lower mammals marine marsupial mesozoic MOLLUSCA neozoic northern hemisphere numerous ocean Octavo old red sandstone oolite organic organisation palæontology paleontologist paleozoic palms peculiar period physical plants and animals pliocene present primal progress pterygotus races regions reptiles sauroid sea and land sea-urchins sea-weeds sediments shell-fish shores Silurian stage star-fishes strata structure terrestrial tertiary throng tion trace tree-ferns triassic trilobites true varied variety vegetable vertebrate vitality waters zoologist
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Стр. 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Стр. 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...