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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 light... "
Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces ... - Seite 55
von Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum - 1854 - 184 Seiten
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The Quarterly Review, Band 56

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
...of those of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale : — ' Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Bände 55-56

1836 - 1184 Seiten
...; but our present observations will be chiefly limited to that which is the best known, and * Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...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...
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Demonstration of the Truth of the Christian Religion

Alexander Keith - 1839 - 394 Seiten
...interment for From Sir Charles Bell's Bridgwater Treatise on the Hand. (Conybeare.) thousands of years amid the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the...examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of the species that are now existing upon the earth. The plesiosauri appear to have lived in shallow seas...
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Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Band 1

William Buckland - 1841 - 488 Seiten
...the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a Chameleon, and the paddles of a Whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...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...
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The Saturday Magazine, Band 22

1843 - 280 Seiten
...contain a capacious set of lungs, and to rise or fall as those lungs became inflated or emptied. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure...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...
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Popular cyclopaedia of natural science (by W.B. Carpenter).

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 608 Seiten
...genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years, amidst the wreck of millions of the inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the species that are now existing upon the earth." The Plesiosaurus was evidently a marine animal ; and,...
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Zoology: Being a Sketch of the Classification, Structure ..., Band 1

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 600 Seiten
...genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years, amidst the wreck of millions of the inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the species that are now existing upon the earth." The Plesiosaurus was evidently a marine animal ; and,...
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Bände 9-10

1853 - 1036 Seiten
...the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Hesiosaurus ; a genus, the remains of which, after interment for...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...
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Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits ..., Band 1

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1857 - 608 Seiten
...genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years, amidst the wreck of millions of the inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled...our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the species that are now existing upon the earth." The Plesiosaurus was evidently a marine animal ; and,...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Band 54

1859 - 782 Seiten
...plesiosaurus — a genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands" (? thousands of millions) "of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct...recalled to light by the researches of the geologist, aud submitted to our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now...
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