 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - 612 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... 
