Petrifactions and Their Teachings; Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum |
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... Cases are inserted between brackets , and placed after the letters and figures of the plan ; for example , in page 11 , letter A refers to the ground - plan , and [ 1 , A , B , C , ] are the numbers and letters painted on the Wall - case ...
... Cases are inserted between brackets , and placed after the letters and figures of the plan ; for example , in page 11 , letter A refers to the ground - plan , and [ 1 , A , B , C , ] are the numbers and letters painted on the Wall - case ...
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... WALL - CASES . Fossil Vegetables . - Chiefly on the south and west sides of the room . The arrangement is botanical ; the simplest forms of vegetable structure , the Algæ , & c . are in the first case , to the right of the entrance . A ...
... WALL - CASES . Fossil Vegetables . - Chiefly on the south and west sides of the room . The arrangement is botanical ; the simplest forms of vegetable structure , the Algæ , & c . are in the first case , to the right of the entrance . A ...
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... wall case at e . About twenty years since , much interest was excited by the discovery of footmarks , resembling those of land tortoises , on the exposed surfaces of slabs of Triassic sandstone , in a quarry at Corncockle Muir in ...
... wall case at e . About twenty years since , much interest was excited by the discovery of footmarks , resembling those of land tortoises , on the exposed surfaces of slabs of Triassic sandstone , in a quarry at Corncockle Muir in ...
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... Case G ; and the remains of the Moa or Dinornis , and other extinct birds of New Zealand , contained in Wall - cases B and C , and Table - cases 15 , 16 , and 17. The latter comprise relics of several extraordinary ornithic types ...
... Case G ; and the remains of the Moa or Dinornis , and other extinct birds of New Zealand , contained in Wall - cases B and C , and Table - cases 15 , 16 , and 17. The latter comprise relics of several extraordinary ornithic types ...
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... Wall - Case G. - Under this name are comprised two groups of radiated animals ; namely , the Asterida , or Starfishes , and the Crinoidea , or Lily - shaped zoophytes , of which there are specimens of many species and genera in the case ...
... Wall - Case G. - Under this name are comprised two groups of radiated animals ; namely , the Asterida , or Starfishes , and the Crinoidea , or Lily - shaped zoophytes , of which there are specimens of many species and genera in the case ...
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