 | 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 - 1836 - 612 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...which these relics are the infallible historians. Sucli are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him—little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient _ remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved, in a state of integrity little short of their living... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth "before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...these relics are the infallible historians.' Such remains consist chiefly of impressions of leaves separated from their branches, and of casts of trunks... | |
 | 1837 - 608 Seiten
...apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before ' hiriv, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing ' faithful records of extinct systems...which these relics are the infallible ' historians.' Dr Buckland's work is terminated with six short, but interesting chapters of a general but very interesting... | |
 | 1837
...lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which oegan and terminated in times of which these relics are the infallible historians.' Such remains consist chiefly of impressions of leaves separated from their branches, and of casts of trunks... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him ; little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...which these relics are the infallible historians."* The extent and thickness of the coal formations appear almost incredible to those unaccustomed to visit... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 Seiten
...before him; little impaired by the lappe of couni.ViS aires, and bearing faithful records of exiinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in times of which these relic« are the infallible 1 historians." "Surh are the grand natural herbaria, wherein these nioet... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him ; little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...which these relics are the infallible historians."* Nor is the account given by Cuvier, of his discoveries of fossil remains of animals, less striking.... | |
 | 1840 - 430 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little Impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in timci of which these relics are the Infallible historians." This, however, is a rare case: for the... | |
 | 1841 - 598 Seiten
...delicate apparatus of foliage, arc all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...which these relics are the infallible historians. The coal strata alternate with indurated clay, sandstone, limestone, and strata of rich argillaceous... | |
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... of their primeval life ; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation,... 
