 | Science - 1841 - 510 pages
...and the movements of animals, and from which we infer with the certainty of cumulative cireumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and...passing. Demonstrations founded solely upon this kind of cireumstantial evidence were duly appreciated, and are well exemplified, by the acute author of the... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 564 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current; and the oblique impressions of the rain-drops, register the point from which the wind was blowing,...or about the time when the animals were passing." • Anniversary Address ; Proceeding* of the Geological Society, voL iii., p. 24C. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 558 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current; and the oblique impressions of the rain-drops, register the point from which the wind was blowing,...or about the time when the animals were passing." • Anniversary Address ; Proceedings of the Geological Society, vol. iii., p. 246. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current : the oblique impressions of the rain-drops register the point from which the wind was blowing...at or about the time when the animals were passing. But how was this record so firmly imprinted on the stone? The answer is ready from the same eloquent... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - Geology - 1859 - 450 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current ; while the oblique impressions of the rain-drops register the point from which the wind was blowing at or about the time when the animals were passing."1 There is another scarce less curious or less minutely recorded incident inscribed on a slab... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1860 - 436 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current ; while the oblique impressions of the rain-drops register the point from which the wind was blowing...or about the time when the animals were passing." l There is another scarce less curious or less minutely recorded incident inscribed on a slab of the... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current ; while the oblique impressions of the rain-drops register the point from which the wind was blowing at or about the time when the animals were passing."1 There is another scarce less curious or less minutely recorded incident inscribed on a slab... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...to sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current; the oblique impressions of the rain-dropa register the point from which the wind was blowing...or about the time when the animals were passing." Soon after this address was delivered, Professor Owen proved the existence of a gigantic Batrachian... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current ; the oblique impressions of the rain -drope register the point from which the wind was blowing...or about the time when the animals were passing." Soon after this address was delivered, Professor Owen proved the existence of a gigantic Batrachian... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1869 - 436 pages
...sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current ; while the oblique impressions of the rain-drop register the point from which the wind was blowing...or about the time when the animals were passing.' ' There is another scarce less curi1 The Labyrinthodon Bucklandi (Lloyd), formerly believed to be a... | |
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... the oblique impressions of the rain-drops register the point from which the wind was blowing at or about the time when the animals were... 
