 Upon comparing the head of the bird with the fossil crania and mandibles, my son was at once convinced of the specific identity of the recent and fossil specimens ; and so delighted was he by the discovery of a living example of one of the supposed extinct...  Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Seite 211von Zoological Society of London - 1850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1851 - 496 Seiten
...the fossil cranium and mandibles, and the figures and descriptions in the Zoological Transactions, my son was at once convinced of their identity ; and...accordance with the indications afforded by the fossil humérus and sternum found by him at Waingongoro (and now in the British Museum), as pointed out by... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1851 - 524 Seiten
...mandibles, my son was at once convinced of the specific identity of the recent and fossil specimens ; and so delighted was he by the discovery of a living...supposed extinct contemporaries of the Moa, that he wrote to me and stated that the skull and beaks were alike in both, and that the abbreviated and feeble... | |
 | 1858 - 810 Seiten
...mandibles, my gon was at once convinced of the specific identity of the recent and fossil specimens ; and so delighted was he by the discovery of a living example of one ot the supposed extinct contemporaries of the Moa, that he wrote to me and stated that the skull and... | |
 | John Gould - 1865 - 682 Seiten
...the fossil craninm and mandibles, and the figures and descriptions in the ' Zoological Transactions,' my son was at once convinced of their identity ; and...to me, and mentioned that the skull and beaks were VOL. n. 2 P alike in the recent and fossil specimens, and that the abbreviated and feeble development... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 588 Seiten
...mandibles, my son was at once convinced of the specific identity of the recent and fossE specimens ; and so delighted was he by the discovery of a living example of one of the supposed SIS DINOTHERIUM. extinct contemporaries of the Moa, that he wrote to me and stated that the skull and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 630 Seiten
...mandibles, my eon was at once convinced of the specific identity of the recent and fossil specimens ; and so delighted was he by the discovery of a living example of one of the supposed 315 DIASTASE. DIASTASE, a substance formed during the germination of planta. It can be artificially... | |
 | Frederick Wollaston Hutton, James Drummond - 1923 - 526 Seiten
...the fossil cranium and mandibles, and the figures and descriptions in the Zoological Transactions, my son was at once convinced of their identity ; and...immediately wrote to me, and mentioned that the skull and beak were alike in the recent and fossil specimens, and that the abbreviated and feeble development... | |
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