She was an assiduous student of paleontology as well as of botany, and the many fossil animals and plants named in her honor testify to her success in the pursuit of her favorite branches of science.
I have been trying to make out whether structure or climate or paleontology throw any light on their distribution--and am drawing complete blank.
Paleontology and the Doctrine of Evolution") "Collected Essays" 8 340.
This is particularly clear as regards the comparative embryology of the vertebrates, because here the phylogenetic unity of the stem has been already established by the well-known facts of paleontology and comparative anatomy.
If the circumstantial evidence for organic evolution, furnished by comparative anatomy, embryology and paleontology is cogent, we should be able to observe evolution going on at the present time, i.
Paleontology has triumphed over the weakness of the evidence, which Darwin admitted was serious, by filling in many of the missing links.
With this unrivalled material and splendid series of gradations, paleontology has constructed many stages in the past history of the globe.
But after 1854, Paleontology and administrative work began to claim much of the time he would willingly have bestowed upon distinctly zoological research.
And I would very strongly urge upon you that it is the logical development of Uniformitarianism, and that its adoption would harmonise the spirit of Paleontology with that of Physical Geology.
The essay on the Crayfish did not appear until after he had left Jermyn Street and Paleontology for South Kensington.
But I think it will be no less plain to any one who has had anything to do with Geology and Paleontology that the great mass of fossils is to be most conveniently arranged stratigraphically.
In 1816 the famous Ossements Fossiles, describing these novel objects, was published, and vertebrate paleontology became a science.
The evidence was being gathered by William Smith, Cuvier, and other devotees of the budding science of paleontology in the last days of the century, but their labors were not brought to completion till a subsequent epoch.
So, for the third time in this first century of its existence, paleontologywas called upon to play a leading role in a controversy whose interest extended far beyond the bounds of staid truth-seeking science.
But does this really mean that a full synopsis of the story of paleontology has been told?
Paleontology and nonmarine stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley Badlands, California.
Stratigraphy and paleontology of a late Pleistocene Basin, Harper Co.
Stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of Pleistocene deposits of southwestern Kansas.
Thenceforward two views of paleontology and two modes of study gradually differentiated from one another, the one zoological, the other geological.
Cuvier's studies of the vertebrates of the Paris basin may be said to have laid the foundation of scientific paleontology from this point of view.
Paleontology at first attracted attention mainly by the new and strange life forms which it revealed.
There is a laboratory of invertebrate paleontology of Cenozoic and Mesozoic age, with a corps of paleontologists.
A laboratory of vertebrate paleontology for formations other than the Quaternary.
There is a laboratory of invertebrate paleontology of Quaternary age, with a corps of paleontologists, Mr. Wm.
There is a laboratory of invertebrate paleontology of Paleozoic age, with a corps of paleontologists.
Defn: The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.
Defn: That branch ofpaleontology which treats of fossil plants.
The evolutionist says: The science of paleontology furnishes the basic argument for our hypothesis,--the older the strata of the earths surface, the simpler the fossils found therein.
Although we have necessarily treated the subject of fossil footmarks in a very brief way, sufficient has been said to show that this new branch of Paleontology may lead to interesting results.
We must, however, remember that, although the early paleontology contains no record of birds, the ancient existence of these animals is now fully ascertained.
He was afterwards appointed professor of geology and paleontology at the Columbia College School of Mines, and took charge of that department in the autumn of 1866.
The whole work of American paleontology has, of course, been along these lines.
Among the mammals themselves there are several orders, such as the whales, the elephants, and even man himself, whose exact lines of more immediate ancestry are not as fully revealed by present paleontology as is to be desired.
Its position to-day is perhaps not unlike that of paleontology at the close of the eighteenth century.
Is paleontology able to succeed where physical geology fails?
The reply to this question will become obvious as the inquiry into the results of paleontology is pushed further.
Guide to the Geology andPaleontology of Niagara Falls and Vicinity, Bull.
In this sense, each of the successive species that paleontology and zoology describes was a success carried off by life.
But, as the actual data of paleontology would also remain, we should still have to admit that it is successively, not simultaneously, that the forms between which we find an ideal kinship have appeared.
The fourth volume, now before us, embraces the paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous, and is by Samuel W.
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