 Some have complained that inscriptions on tomb-stones convey no general information, except that individuals were born and died — accidents which happen alike to all men. But the death of a species is so remarkable an event in natural history, that...  Report - Page 48by Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1848Full view - About this book
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...no general information, except that individuals were born and died — accidents which happen alike to all men. But the death of a species is so remarkable...small interest that we learn from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the Dodo,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 368 pages
...no general information except that individuals were born aud died, accidents which must happen alike to all men. But the death of a species is so remarkable...small interest that we learn, from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the dodo,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 450 pages
...mammalia, into America, and their rapid propagation over that continent within the last three cenit deserves commemoration; and it is with no small interest that we learn, from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the dodo,... | |
 | William Jardine - Birds - 1836 - 384 pages
...differed from the Ostrich, Cassowary, or any known bird." f " The death of a species," says Mr Lyell, " is so remarkable an event in Natural History, that...small interest that we learn from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the Dodo,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1837 - 1032 pages
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 | 1838 - 530 pages
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 | 1849 - 1118 pages
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 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1865 - 880 pages
...were born and died, accidents which must happen alike to all men. But tho death of a ipeciei is BO remarkable an event in natural history that it deserves...small interest that we learn, from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of tho last specimen of the dodo,... | |
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