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" Oolitic landscape, — we detect, in a few broken fragments of the wings of butterflies, decided trace of the flowersucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first bee makes its appearance... "
The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application, Being a Familiar ... - Page 477
by Jabez Hogg - 1898 - 704 pages
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The Life and Times of Hugh Miller

Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIRST BEE. " The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...tomb, — an embalmed corpse in a crystal coffin, — alojig with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycida3, too — insects...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volumes 11-12

National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...both of the land and water, beetles, and two-winged flies. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...gem-like tomb — an embalmed corpse in a crystal cofiin — along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. There is exquisite poetry in Wordsworth's...
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ...

Hugh Miller - 1857 - 528 pages
...butterflies, decided trace of the flower-sucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombyeidse too, — insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce...
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ...

Hugh Miller - 1857 - 520 pages
...butterflies, decided trace of the flowersucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycidae too, — insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce...
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ...

Hugh Miller - 1857 - 540 pages
...butterflies, decided trace of the flower-sucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...hermetically in its gemlike tomb, — an embalmed corp^3 in a crystal coffin, — along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of...
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Labour & Triumph: The Life and Times of Hugh Miller

Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIBST BEE. *' The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycidae too,— insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce visible...
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The Life and Times of Hugh Miller

Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 368 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIRST BEE. " The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycidse, too — insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce...
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Labour and triumph, the life and times of Hugh Miller

Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 338 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIRST BEE. " The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...the Eocene, locked up hermetically in its gem-like tomb,—an embalmed corpse in a crystal coffin,—along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and...
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The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications

Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 650 pages
...butterflies, decided traces of the flower-sucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...the Eocene, locked up hermetically in its gem-like tomb,—an embalmed corpse in a crystal coffin,—along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and...
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American Bee Journal, Volume 1

1861 - 292 pages
...long before man was brought into existence; for, according to Hugh Miller, (Testimong of the Rocks,) " the first bee makes its appearance in the amber of the Eocene" — the period which Geologists regard as the very dawn of the existing state of things. g^" Please...
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