How much closer will these links be drawn when Palaeontology shall have escaped from its cradle!
In 1873 he was recalled from Heidelberg, where he held a post as Privatdocent, to occupy the newly created Chair of Palaeontology in Vienna.
What progress Palaeontology has made during the last twenty years!
The department of palaeontology dealing with the Mammalia may be said to have been essentially created and established by Cuvier.
Among his other contributions to the literature ofpalaeontology was his description of the Triassic reptile Telerpelon elginense.
He found time to prosecute researches on the palaeontology of the Secondary rocks, particularly in Sussex--a region which he made classical in the history of discovery.
The way of palaeontology has but just been laid open to us.
Such is the further commentary which I have to offer upon the statement of the chief results of palaeontology which I formerly ventured to lay before you.
Beyond the limits of a fraction of Europe, Palaeontology tells us nothing of man or of his works.
At present Palaeontology yields no safe data to the ethnologist.
When I addressed you in 1862, I should have been bold indeed had I suggested that palaeontology would before long show us the possibility of a direct transition from the type of the lizard to that of the ostrich.
Although palaeontology as yet gives little help in tracing the course of their evolution, we can imagine what the intermediate links must have been like by comparison with the living Cumacea and Tanaidacea.
Palaeontology is another very young science that has contributed greatly towards the evidence of our origin.
Attention has therefore been directed chiefly to the physical branches of the science--Palaeontology and Historical Geology, which are very large subjects of themselves, having been only lightly touched upon.
Outlines of Vertebrate Palaeontology for students of Zoology.
The exoskeleton in vertebrates is phylogenetically older than the endoskeleton, as is indicated by both palaeontology and embryology.
It is fully confirmed by all the arguments of comparative anatomy and embryology, of palaeontology and physiology; and all the research of the subsequent forty years have gone to establish it.
Palaeontology lends no support to the idea that the dorso-central is a primitive element; it exists in none of the early echinoids, and the suranal of Saleniidae arises from the minor plates around the anus.
Ordovician rocks of Esthonia, is in essential structure just the form demanded by comparative palaeontology to make a starting-point.
Returning to America in 1866 he was appointed professor of vertebrate palaeontology at Yale College, and there began the researches of the fossil vertebrata of the western states, whereby he established his reputation.
He was long in charge of the division of vertebrate palaeontology in the United States Geological Survey, and received many scientific honours, medals and degrees, American and foreign.
He graduated at Yale College in 1860, and studied geology and mineralogy in the Sheffield scientific school, New Haven, and afterwards palaeontology and anatomy in Berlin, Heidelberg and Breslau.
We find indeed that while Professor Huxley declares palaeontology to be the main support of Evolution, other authorities tell us the exact contrary.
Catalogue of the Palaeozoic Plants in the Department of Geology andPalaeontology of the British Museum, London, 1886.
Hence, so far as palaeontologycan show, the two parallel groups of the flowering plants arose about the same time.
In 1854, however, he obtained the chairs of Natural History and Palaeontology at the School of Mines, and to this he afterwards added the appointment of Inspector of Fisheries.
In fact, he has been dead more than half a century; and the palaeontology of our day is related to that of his, very much as the geography of the sixteenth century is related to that of the fourteenth.
The archaeology of zoological species constitutes the sphere of palaeontology (q.
Happily, the future of palaeontology is independent of all hypothetical considerations.
But, although palaeontology is a comparatively youthful scientific speciality, the mass of materials with which it has to deal is already prodigious.
In tracing its subsequent progress I must confine myself to the province of biology, and, indeed, to the influence of palaeontology upon zoological morphology.
And I accept this limitation the more willingly as the no less important topic of the bearing of geology and of palaeontology upon distribution has been luminously treated in the address of the President of the Geographical Section.
Even that feat ofpalaeontology which has so powerfully impressed the popular imagination, the reconstruction of an extinct animal from a tooth or a bone, is based upon the simplest imaginable application of the logic of Steno.
The person who rendered this good service to palaeontology was Nicolas Steno, professor of anatomy in Florence, though a Dane by birth.
His published papers date from 1836, and include numerous reports on the geology and palaeontology of various portions of the United States and Canada.
Thus palaeontology may be said to have been founded on the Mammoth.
The appearance of a second edition affords the author a pleasant opportunity of thanking the reading public, and the Press, for the kind way in which his endeavour to popularise the results of modern Palaeontology has been received.
Guide to the Exhibition Galleries in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road.
As we have already remarked, the science of palaeontology may be said to have been founded by Cuvier (see Introduction, p.
To the latter, however, one of its many points of interest is that palaeontologymay be said to have been founded on the Mammoth.
Palaeontology is the science which treats of the living beings, whether animal or vegetable, which have inhabited this globe at past periods in its history.
Now the independent study of embryology suggests exactly the same pedigree, and the entirely independent testimony of palaeontology is precisely in harmony with the already confirmed theory arrived at in this way.
The first is probably false, as being contrary to history; and also to the testimony of palaeontology with reference to the laws of creation.
Having recently examined the specimens now in the Museum of Palaeontology at Agram in Croatia, I venture to add some notes made on that occasion.
But the sciences of Geology and Palaeontology are making such rapid progress, now that they go hand in hand, that our familiarity with past creations is daily increasing.
And in respect of certain groups of animals, the well-established facts of palaeontology leave no rational doubt that they arose by the latter method.
As a fact, palaeontology does not show any remnants of organisms in the lower strata of the earth.
Astronomy is distinguished from palaeontology and philosophy by the fact that it treats of the stars, not of fossils, or of the fundamental truths of reason.
Branco, director of the Palaeontological Institute of Berlin, says: "Palaeontology tells us nothing about the missing link.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palaeontology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
