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... inhabit recent shells , or of the physi- ology of living plants , and , as a natural consequence , I became confused with terms and definitions of which I knew nothing , and , like the youth who is crammed with Virgil before he has ...
... inhabit recent shells , or of the physi- ology of living plants , and , as a natural consequence , I became confused with terms and definitions of which I knew nothing , and , like the youth who is crammed with Virgil before he has ...
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... inhabit the island of Madagascar , and Cuvier ranked the winged Lemur ( Galeopithecus ) with the bats . Some comparative anatomists believe that there is a gradation from the monkeys through the Lemurs , Galagos , and Galeopithecus , to ...
... inhabit the island of Madagascar , and Cuvier ranked the winged Lemur ( Galeopithecus ) with the bats . Some comparative anatomists believe that there is a gradation from the monkeys through the Lemurs , Galagos , and Galeopithecus , to ...
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... inhabited England , and has been found in the Bin- stead quarries of the Isle of Wight . Like the rhi- noceros , the Palæothere frequented the borders of lakes and marshes . Some extinct species of the rhi- noceros lived in the Pliocene ...
... inhabited England , and has been found in the Bin- stead quarries of the Isle of Wight . Like the rhi- noceros , the Palæothere frequented the borders of lakes and marshes . Some extinct species of the rhi- noceros lived in the Pliocene ...
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... inhabits rocky places in Africa . Ancient as is the coney of Scripture , there was one still older , for a hornless rhinoceros ( Acerotherium ) , or gigantic hyrax , lived in the Miocene period . The Zoological Society possesses ...
... inhabits rocky places in Africa . Ancient as is the coney of Scripture , there was one still older , for a hornless rhinoceros ( Acerotherium ) , or gigantic hyrax , lived in the Miocene period . The Zoological Society possesses ...
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... inhabited these latitudes , and ranged as far north as 60 ° . So abundant are their remains in Siberia , that large quantities of ivory are supplied from their tusks in these frozen charnel - houses of the far north . The perfect ...
... inhabited these latitudes , and ranged as far north as 60 ° . So abundant are their remains in Siberia , that large quantities of ivory are supplied from their tusks in these frozen charnel - houses of the far north . The perfect ...
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