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" I am apt to think there is no such matter as petrifying of shells in the business, but that these cockle-like stones are everywhere as they are at present Lapides sui generis, and never were any part of an animal. "
The Farmer's Magazine - Page 448
1849
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British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 16

1849 - 608 pages
...shells in the business, but that these cockle-hke stones are everywhere as they are at present bfdts sui generis, and never were any part of an animal....quarry shells have no parts of a different texture from №* rock in question whence they were taken ; ш»1^ that there is no such thing as shell in these...
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The Founders of Geology

Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 514 pages
...the fossils had ever belonged to living creatures, f" For our English inland quarries," he said, " I am apt to think there is no such matter as petrifying...sui generis, and never were any part of an animal," that they " have no parts of a different texture from the rock or quarry whence they are taken, that...
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Philosophical Magazine

1832 - 516 pages
...at good distance too from the sea. But for our English in' land quarries, I am apt to think, there h no such matter as petrifying of ' shells in the business : but that these cockle-like ttonet are everywhere ai * they are at present, Lapidet sui generis, and never were any part of an...
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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology

M. J. S. Rudwick - 1985 - 303 pages
..."my argument will fall, and I shall be happily convinced of an Errour". Until then, he maintained, "I am apt to think, there is no such matter, as Petrifying...Shells in the business . . . but that these Cockle-like shells ever were, as they are at present, lapides sui generis, and never any part of an Animal". The...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the ...

Alan Cutler - 2003 - 252 pages
...said, "which also abound with infinite number and great varieties of shells, I am apt to think, that there is no such matter as Petrifying of Shells in the business." The "Cockle-like stones" were stones and had always been stones. They had never been any part of an...
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The Dream of the West, Pt II, Part 2

Brian Lasater - 2008 - 600 pages
...belonged to extinct species, but extinction was not widely accepted at the time, and Lister concluded: "I am apt to think, there is no such matter, as Petrifying...Shells in the business. ..but that these Cockle-like shells ever were, as they are at present, lapides sui generis (stones of their own kind), and never...
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