The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 26The Society, 1870 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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Ammonites appears articular Australia basalt beds Belemnites belong bones Boulder-clay calice Carboniferous chalk character clay coast Compsognathus conglomerate containing convex coral costæ Crag Crioceras deep-sea deposits Devonian Dinosauria distal end dorsal Duncan Eocene epoch existing fauna feet femur fibula formation forms fossils fragments genera genus Geol Geological Society Glacial gravel Hypsilophodon Iguanodon inch internal casts ischium Journ Kimmeridge Laurentian length Lias limestone Lower mammalian margin Mastodon Megalosaurus Mesozoic Middle miles Miocene molar Moore Museum Neocomian occur Oolite outer pebbles plates portion posterior present probably Prof Professor reefs remains remarkable reptiles resemblance Rhynchonella ribs ridge river rocks Salter sand sandstone septa shell side Silurian slightly species specimens Steneosaurus strata striæ structure Suffolk surface teeth Tertiary Thecodontosaurus thick tibia tooth transverse Trias Triassic upper valley valve ventral vertebræ Vicaryi Wollumbilla zone
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Page lxiii - I have put before you requires no supposition that the rate of change in organic life has been either greater or less in ancient times than it is now; nor any assumption, either physical or biological, which has not its justification in analogous phenomena of existing nature. I have now only to discharge the last duty of my office, which is to thank you, not only for the patient attention with which you have listened to me so long to-day, but also for the uniform kindness with which, for the past...
Page xliii - ... to have been very slight ; and, as to the nature of that modification, it yields no evidence whatsoever that the earlier members of any long-continued group were more generalized in structure than the later ones...
Page lxi - Lacertilia, in the time represented by the passage from the Palaeozoic to the Mesozoic formation, appears to me to be hardly more credible, to say nothing of the indications of the existence of Dinosaurian forms in the Permian rocks which have already been obtained. For my part, I entertain no sort of doubt that the Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of the Trias are the direct descendants of...
Page 31 - Ilypsilophodou, from the character of its teeth, probably subsisted on hard vegetable food. He expressed a hope that Mr. Fox would allow a closer examination of his specimens to be made. He was unable to agree with Mr. Seeley's views. He was inclined to think that the progress of knowledge tended rather to break down the lines of demarcation between groups supposed to be distinct than to authorize the creation of fresh divisions.
Page 135 - ... Notizblatt des Vereins für Erdkunde und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Darmstadt und des Mittelrheinischen Geologischen Vereins.
Page 445 - Report of the Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1863—4.
Page 417 - Transactions of the Geological Society,' 1840, pi. 39. figs. 1 & 2, were transmitted to me by the Earl of Enniskillen and Dr. Buckland, as being "the bones of a bird" (p. 411), and my comparisons of them were limited to that class. The idea of their possibly belonging to a Pterodactyle did occur to me, but it was dispelled by the following...
Page lvi - Now there is every reason to believe, on other grounds, that both Hindostan, south of the Ganges, and Africa, south of the Sahara, were separated by a wide sea from Europe and North Asia during the Middle and Upper Eocene epochs. Hence it becomes highly probable that the well-known similarities, and no less remarkable differences, between the present Faunae of India and South Africa have arisen in some such fashion as the following.
Page 32 - The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosaurio*.