A History of British Fossil Mammals, and BirdsJohn Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1846 - 560 sayfa |
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Amphitherium animal antlers Aurochs Beaver belonged Bison Blainville bones breadth British Buckland canine Carnivora cavern Cervus characters Clacton clay convex corresponding crag cranium crown Cuvier Deer dentine deposits Didelphys differs discovered distinct drift Elephant enamel eocene Equus Essex existing species extinct species fangs feet Felis figured fissure formation fossil fossil remains fragment fresh-water genera genus Geological grinder grinding surface Hippopotamus horns humerus Hyæna Hyana Hyracotherium inches incisors indicate Kent's Hole Kirkdale last molar length leptorhinus Lophiodon lower jaw Machairodus Mammalia Mammoth marl marsupial Mastodon Mastodon angustidens Megaceros molar teeth Museum nasal Oreston Ossemens Fossiles outer Pachyderms plates pliocene portion posterior premolar present primigenius priscus proportion quadrupeds ramus Reliquiæ Diluvianæ resembles Rhinoceros Rhinoceros tichorhinus ridge side skeleton skull socket specimen Stonesfield strata symphysis tertiary Thylacine tooth transverse true molars tubercles tusks upper jaw upper molar Ursus Ursus spelaus vertebræ
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Sayfa 197 - ... or marshes now dried up, or in the substance of beds of peat, or in the fissures and caverns of certain rocks, or at small depths below the present surface, in places where they may have been overwhelmed by debris, or even buried by man : And, although these bones are the most recent of all, they are almost always, owing to their superficial situation, the worst preserved.
Sayfa iv - There is in the world no kind of knowledge, whereby any part of truth is seen, but we justly account it precious ; yea, that principal truth, in comparison whereof all other knowledge is vile, may receive from it some kind of light ; whether it be that Egyptian and Chaldean wisdom...
Sayfa 260 - Towards the end of the next year, (1801,) the entire side of the animal and one its tusks were quite free from the ice. On his return to the borders of the Lake Oncoul, he communicated this extraordinary discovery to his wife and some of his friends, but their reception of the news filled him with grief.
Sayfa 262 - It is interspersed with a few bristles about three inches long, of a dark reddish colour. Among the separate parcels of hair are some rather redder than the short hair just mentioned, about four inches long ; and some bristles nearly black, much thicker than horse-hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin when first brought to the museum was offensive ; it is now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick.
Sayfa 261 - Wild beasts, such as white bears, wolves, wolverenes, and foxes, also fed upon it, and the traces of their footsteps were seen around. The skeleton, almost entirely cleared of its flesh, remained whole, with the exception of one...
Sayfa 257 - N. lat. ; and they have been traced, but in scantier quantities, as far south as the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and South Carolina. But no authentic relics of the Elephas primigenius have yet been discovered in tropical latitudes,}; or in any part of the southern hemisphere. It would thus appear that the primeval Elephants formerly ranged over the whole northern hemisphere of the globe, from the 40th to the 60th, and possibly to near the 70th degree of latitude. Here at least, at the mouth...
Sayfa 497 - ... century, as having been slain with other beasts of chase in the great hunt of the forest of Worms, are mentioned under the same names which they received from the Romans: ' Dar nach schluch er schiere, einen Wisent und einen Elch, Starchei Ure vier, und einen grimmen Schelch.' ' After this he straightway slew a Bison and an Elk, Of the strong Uri four, and a single fierce Schelch.
Sayfa xxxix - Not a relic of an elephant, a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, a bison, a hyaena, or a lagomys, has yet been detected in the caves or the more recent tertiary deposits of South America. On the contrary, most of the fossil Mammalia from those formations are as distinct from the Europrco-Asiatic forms as they are closely allied to the peculiarly South American existing genera of Mammalia.
Sayfa 257 - Continent, as in England, in the superficial deposits of sand, gravel, and loam, which are strewed over all parts of Europe ; and they are found in still greater abundance in the same formations of Asia, especially in the higher latitudes, where the soil which forms their matrix is perennially frozen.* Remains of the mammoth have been found in great abundance in the cliffs of frozen mud on the east side of Behring's Straits, in Eschscholtz's Bay, in Russian America, lat.
Sayfa xliv - ... that, with extinct as with existing Mammalia, particular forms were assigned to particular provinces, and, what is still more interesting and suggestive, that the same forms were restricted to the same provinces at a former geological period as they are at the present day.