 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - 612 páginas
...made up by the number of the individuals, which she multiplies with admirable promptitude to infinity. The remains of such minute animals have added much...the bones of Elephants, Hippopotami, and Whales." 1112. But these facts sink into insignificance, when compared •with those lately revealed by the... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 606 páginas
...made up by the number of the individuals, which she multiplies with admirable promptitude to infinity. The remains of such minute animals have added much...the bones of Elephants, Hippopotami, and Whales." 1112. But these facts sink into insignificance, when compared with those lately revealed by the researches... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1848 - 536 páginas
...of minute, but perfect Foraminifera in the strata in the neighbourhood of Paris, and remarked " that the remains of such minute animals have added much more to the mass of materials which compose the crust of the globe, than the bones of hippopotami, elephants, and whales."f The Abbe Alberto Fort is,... | |
 | 1850 - 268 páginas
...Vienna.' Dr Buckland has well observed that the remains of such animalcules have added a thousand times more to the mass of materials which compose the exterior...than the bones of elephants, hippopotami, and whales. It has long been known that in times of scarcity certain savage nations have been in the habit of eating... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 páginas
...Vienna.' Dr Buckland has well observed that the remains of such animalcules have added a thousand times more to the mass of materials which compose the exterior...than the bones of elephants, hippopotami, and whales. It has long been known that in times of scarcity certain savage nations have been in the habit of eating... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 páginas
...are principally composed of portions of invisible animalcules. And as Dr. Buckland truly observes : " The remains of such minute animals have added much...the bones of elephants, hippopotami, and whales." The stratum of slate, fourteen feet thick, found at Bilin, in Austria, was the first that was discovered... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 520 páginas
...multiplies, with admirable promptitude, to infinity. The remains of such minute animals have contributed much more to the mass of materials which compose the...the bones of elephants, hippopotami, and whales." From the extremely elegant structure of the shells of these animals, M. Alcide d'Orbigny, who was the... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 páginas
...are principally composed of portions of iuvisible animalcules. And as Dr. Buckland truly observes, " The remains of such minute animals have added much...the bones of elephants, hippopotami, and whales." The stratum of slate, fourteen feet thick, found at Bilin, in Austria, was the first that was discovered... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1858 - 644 páginas
...made up by the number of the individuals, which she multiplies with admirable promptitude to infinity. The remains of such minute animals have added much...the bones of Elephants, Hippopotami, and Whales." 1223. But these facts sink into insignificance, when compared with those lately revealed by the researches... | |
 | John King - 1859 - 344 páginas
...futile ; as the results would be far beyond the grasp of human comprehension. And the remains of these minute animals have added much more to the mass of materials which comprise the exterior crust of the globe, than the bones of elephants, mammoths, hippopotami and whales."... | |
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... individuals, which she multiplies with admirable promptitude to infinity. The remains of such minute animals have added much more to the mass of materials which compose the exterior crust of the globe, than the bones of Elephants, Hippopotami, and... 
