Mr. Lonsdale contributed important papers on the Devonian System, the Oolitic Rocks, and on palaeontological subjects.
Agassiz found that his palaeontologicallabours rendered necessary a new basis of ichthyological classification.
It may be regarded as a local phase of the basement beds of the Forest Marble, from which it cannot be separated upon either stratigraphical or palaeontological grounds.
Elsewhere the identification of the Silurian and older systems does not rest on palaeontological evidence.
The results of Cuvier's principal palaeontological and geological investigations were ultimately given to the world in the form of two separate works.
This view is shared both by Claus and Dohrn, and appears to be in accordance with all the evidence we have both palaeontological and morphological.
On this unity of mineral character it is, that this Scottish formation is concluded to be contemporaneous with the lowest formations in Wales; for the scanty palaeontological evidence suffices neither for proof nor disproof.
Had we space, many more such causes of blanks in our palaeontological records might be added.
The palaeontological talk continued as far as the entrance of the assembly hall.
Cuvier, in the Discours sur les Revolutions de la Surface du Globe, strangely credits himself, and has ever since been credited by others, with the invention of a new method of palaeontological research.
In the year 1857, a further division of the Natural History Collections took place; the mineralogical and the palaeontologicalspecimens being assigned to special Departments, and the Minerals placed in the Keepership of Prof.
Monophyletic, or One-rooted Pedigree of the Animal Kingdom, representing the historical growth of the six animal tribes during the palaeontological periods of the organic history of the earth.
We lack, and shall ever lack, the indispensable palaeontological foundations.
This state of things results from the immense gaps in our palaeontological knowledge, which can, under no circumstances, ever attain to even an approximate completeness.
If we, therefore, in spite of this, venture to undertake their hypothetical construction, we must chiefly depend for guidance on the two other series of records which most essentially supplement the palaeontological archives.
The third great division of the palaeontologicalhistory of development is formed by the secondary epoch, or the era of Pine Forests, which is also called the mesolithic or mesozoic epoch.
I have disregarded this consideration in order not to go too far from palaeontological facts.
Earle, in the American Naturalist for 1897, observes that "so far as the palaeontological evidence goes it is decidedly in favour of the view that apes and lemurs are closely related.
Osborn, "Palaeontological Evidence for the Original Tritubercular Theory," in vol.
Palaeontological research has disclosed the existence of a great number of forms which seem to connect with one another almost all the orders of fishes as usually recognised.
But the most important of all the recent palaeontological discoveries which have served to elucidate the origin of the placentals relate to our own stem, the legion of primates.
Thus, by the discovery of this fossil man-monkey of Java the descent of man from the ape has become just as clear and certain from the palaeontological side as it was previously from the evidence of comparative anatomy and ontogeny.
Ehrenberg himself, towards the end of his long and laborious life, collected the results of the systematic and palaeontological researches, which he had begun thirty-seven years previously (L.
The Radiolarian clays of the Nicobar Islands are unfortunately very incompletely known both as regards their geological nature and their palaeontological composition.
In order to furnish direct proof of this, however, a complete empirical knowledge both of individual and of palaeontological development would be necessary.
With these systematic and descriptive, chorological and palaeontological works, however, which relate exclusively to the Polycystina, the merits of the famous naturalist of Berlin are exhausted as regards this class of animals.
That our palaeontological collections are very imperfect, is admitted by every one.
Scarcely any palaeontological discovery is more striking than the fact, that the forms of life change almost simultaneously throughout the world.
This is exactly what is found, there being, in a vast number of instances, a remarkable parallel between thepalaeontological record and the embryological evidence.
The palaeontological evidence has found its way into popular books, and even into some of the literary newspapers.
The proofs of the truth of Evolution are of two kinds--palaeontological and embryological.
From palaeontological science no support can be obtained for the assumption of a periodical alternation of warm and cold climates on the surface of the earth.
With this chain of successive groups of Vertebrata, constructed anatomically, the palaeontological facts agree most satisfactorily.
It is true that the gaps in the palaeontological evidence, here as elsewhere, are many and keenly felt.
How fruitful during the last thirty years the astonishing progress in our palaeontological knowledge has been for our Pithecometra-thesis is best shown by a short glance at the growth of our knowledge of fossil Primates.
They are independent of all future anatomical, embryological, and palaeontological discoveries which may possibly throw more light upon the details of our phyletic anthropogenesis.
Quite different, and much more incomplete, is the palaeontological evidence, if we go further back into the Secondary or Mesozoic age, and look there for the older ancestors of the mammalian series.
This is, however, a very misleading statement, which necessitates considerable reduction, in conformity with our increasedpalaeontological knowledge.
Of this gradual spread of new types there should, at least in some cases, be some palaeontological evidence.
Accordingly, Huxley himself based his faith in Evolution on palaeontological evidence, and attempted to decide the precise course it had followed only "in the few cases where the evidence seemed to him sufficiently complete.
There remains to be considered Darwin's own explanation of the admitted deficiency of palaeontological evidence.
The facts of palaeontological botany are opposed to Evolution, but they testify to Development, to progression from lower to higher types.
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