He published one biological and four paleontological memoirs, and sat on two Royal Commissions, one on the Contagious Diseases Acts, the other on Scientific Instruction, which continued until 1875.
Six years afterwards, this forecast of paleontological research was to be fulfilled, but at the expense of the European ancestry of the horse.
In the forest and undergrowth lived the ancestors of modern mammal groups.
Insects, many exceedingly similar to modern types, flew about in the warm air or crept about on the plants.
From thispaleontological fact, in conjunction with important geological and biological indications, we may infer with some confidence that there were no terrestrial animals at that time.
This extreme and very unfortunate incompleteness of the paleontological evidence, which cannot be pointed out too often, is easily explained.
However, our paleontological evidence will (for reasons that I have fully explained in the sixteenth chapter of the History of Creation) always be defective.
This paleontological fact is very important, because it fully harmonises with the evolutionary succession of the Mammal orders that is deduced from their comparative anatomy and ontogeny.
On the strength of this paleontological fact, we may suppose that they belonged to Marsupials.
Some paleontological work has been done in Cuba, but the specimens collected were not accompanied by the necessary data.
Owing to a lack of paleontological data, the history of the island during the Eocene time is vague, but it is probable that a large part of it was submerged.
Wright, of Cheltenham, whosepaleontological labours are so well known, for bringing this interesting relic to my knowledge.
Paleontological exploration and dating of the Early Tertiary deposits in basins adjacent to the Uinta Mountains.
Catastrophism in the sea and its paleontological significance, with special reference to the Gulf of Mexico.
After much very interesting study in the paleontologicallaboratory there, he decided to go regularly through the entire course, and accomplished that purpose with notable success and honor, graduating in 1860.
Geological specimens, including paleontological and lithological exhibits, show the age and character of the soil, while the rocks further indicate the possibilities of the territory, for they show the geological horizon.
In 1862 he admitted candidly that the paleontological record as then known, so far as it bears on the doctrine of progressive development, negatives that doctrine.
A recent bit of paleontological evidence bearing on the question of the introduction of species is that presented by Dr.
If there be any value in paleontological evidence, this Cromarty lignite must have been deposited in a sea inhabited by the Coccoeteus and Diplacanthus.
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 paleontological evidence suffices for neither proof nor disproof.
Had we space, many more such causes of blanks in our paleontological records might be added.
The immediate paleontological history of man is unknown, but may be easily inferred from the characteristics displayed by his nearest relatives of the order Quadrumana.
The significance of these, as of the more important structural characters of man and the lower animals, must be considered from two standpoints, the paleontological and the embryological.
In the list of work in hand are fourpaleontological papers, besides the slowly progressing "Manual of Comparative Anatomy.
This reorganisation of his course went hand in hand with his utilisation of the Jermyn Street Museum for paleontological teaching, and all through 1857 he was busily working at the Explanatory Catalogue.
I don't believe the clay soil of the Regent's Park would matter a fraction--and to have a grand scientific zoological and paleontological collection for working purposes close to the Gardens where the living beasts are, would be a grand thing.
But these paleontological observations alone would not have enabled us to assign, with accuracy, the true place in the geological series of these slate-rocks and limestones of South Devon, had not Messrs.
The entire absence, so far as our paleontological investigations have hitherto gone, of ordinary dicotyledons or exogens in the coal measures, is most remarkable.
Every new fact which throws light on the true paleontological relations of the strata now under consideration, (the Upper Marine or Fontainebleau beds of the Paris basin, 1.
Among those who came to give occasional help were Mr. Lesquereux, the head of paleontological botany in this country; M.
The relations of the horse and tapir in the paleontological history of South America are very curious.
Unquestionably, the distribution of many forms of life, past and present, offers problems which with our present paleontological knowledge we are wholly unable to solve.
To loose generalizations, and to elaborate misinterpretations of paleontological records, the kind of work done by Mr. Haseman furnishes an invaluable antiscorbutic.
I am puzzling over this group because the paleontologicalrecord is comparatively so good.
I had an awful battle with them (through the Department) over Newton, who is now in your paleontological department.
Defn: The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny.
All catalogue numbers refer to the vertebrate paleontologicalcollection in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.
I endeavored in 1896 to establish it in detail, in relation to paleontological discoveries, in the essay I have mentioned.
Baer's phraseology) displayed in the visible paleontological development, the directness of advance of the modifications to a final "goal.
Still the two are not solely a result of observation, deduced from paleontological data; they are also a consequence of the theory of selection, as was shown in the text.
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