 But we may readily believe that any one cognisant of the food of the elk, might be likely to have suspected cryptogamic vegetation to have entered more largely into the food of a still more northern species of the deer tribe. And I can by no means subscribe...  A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds - Sayfa 265Richard Owen tarafından - 1846 - 560 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1847 - 492 sayfa
...hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick. Its color is the dull black of the living Elephant. appear to have been instituted ; they have in some...determine, or even to offer a probable conjecture concernmg that of the extinot species." The molar teeth of the Elephant possess, as we have seen, a... | |
 | 1845 - 716 sayfa
...would have assigned a lichen to the rein-deer.' But we may readily believe, that any one cognisant of the food of the elk, might be likely to have suspected...prefers, will not enable us to determine, or even to ofier a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species.' The molar teeth of the elephant... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 sayfa
...been supplied by many successive generations. So many skeletons * «I fully agree with Dr. Fleming, that the kind of food which the existing species of...will not enable us to determine, or even to offer a feasible conjecture, concerning that uf the extinct .species. No one, as he observes, acquainted with... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 sayfa
...been supplied by many successive generations. So many skeletons * "I fully agree with Dr. Fleming, that the kind of food which the existing species of...will not enable us to determine, or even to offer a feasible conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one, as he observes, acquainted with... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 396 sayfa
...accounting for the subsistence of such herds of enormous animals. On this point, Dr. Fleming remarks, " that the kind of food which the existing species of...prefers, will not enable us to determine, or even to ofi'er a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with gramineous... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 sayfa
...large proportion of the living species of British testacea. It has been well observed by Dr. Reming, that " the kind of food which the existing species...conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of the food of our fallow-deer, stag, or roe, would... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1837 - 396 sayfa
...accounting for the subsistence of such herds of enormous animals. On this point, Dr. Fleming remarks, " that the kind of food which the existing species of...conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of the food of our fallow-deer, stag, or roe, would... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 506 sayfa
...great quadrupeds to have once flourished between the latitudes 40° and 60°^. Dr. Fleming has hinted, that " the kind of food which the existing species...conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of the food of our fallow-deer, stag, or roe, would... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 sayfa
...them entirely sound, and are at the present day, collected and sold by thousands for ivory. remarks, " that the kind of food which the existing species of...elephant prefers, will not enable us to determine, oi even to offer a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 388 sayfa
...them entirely sound, and are at the present day, collected and sold by thousands for ivory. remarks, " that the kind of food which the existing species of...elephant prefers, will not enable us to determine, oi even to offer a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with... | |
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