This animal was referred by one palaeontologist to the Man-like Apes, by another to the Cercopithecidae.
Its very name, given to it by the eminent French palaeontologist M.
And so, little by little, have been pieced together the fragments from which we have derived our knowledge of the past, and thus has the palaeontologist read the riddles of the rocks.
What the palaeontologist does for zoology, the prehistorian does for anthropology.
Earlier in 1881 he had asserted even more emphatically that if the hypothesis of evolution "had not existed, the palaeontologist would have had to invent it" (Essays, iv.
In November 1844 he resigned the curatorship of the Geological Society, and became palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
Falconer did enough during his lifetime to render his name as a palaeontologist immortal in science; but the work which he published was only a fraction of what he accomplished.
Aymard of Le Puy, a writer of deservedly high authority both as a palaeontologist and archaeologist.
In this case, the palaeontologist is called upon suddenly to intercalate about 800 species of Mollusca and Radiata, between the fauna of the Lower Lias and that of the Middle Trias.
There will not be soon one good palaeontologist who believes in immutability.
The merest fragment, sufficient only for microscopic examination, enables the palaeontologist to describe to incredulous auditors some organism altogether unknown in its entire structures.
One of these is Joachim Barrande, the palaeontologist of Bohemia, and the first authority in Europe on the fossils of the older formations.
No cautious palaeontologist would express a decided opinion on the matter.
I was taken to task by a noted palaeontologist for finding a pupa (a kind of land snail) in Devonian beds; but I could not find any point in which it differed from the modern genus [?
This is the hypothesis of evolution; and the palaeontological discoveries of the last decade are so completely in accordance with the requirements of this hypothesis that, if it had not existed, the palaeontologist would have had to invent it.
In the heavens only the astronomer with his prisms and telescopes traces them; only the geologist and palaeontologist read their history in the earth's crust.
Only the palaeontologist traces in the records of the rocks the footsteps of this god of change.
True, the palaeontologist finds a more or less disjointed record of them in the stratified rocks and sees in a measure the course evolution has taken, but he does not actually see it at work as does the astronomer.
The eminent Swiss palaeontologist Ruetimeyer was quite right in saying (p.
The palaeontologist was, by this time, able to speak as confidently about the animal of the Belemnite, as Zadig was respecting the queen's spaniel.
We are indebted to the geologist Charles Dawson and the palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward for preserving these ancient records and describing them with great fulness and accuracy as follows (pp.
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