Category: Science - Biology
APPENDICES. I.--Table of Stratified Rocks 251 II.--The Great Sea-serpent 253 III.--List of British Localities where Remains of the Mammoth have been discovered 258 IV.--Literature 261 V.--Ichthyosaurs 264 INDEX 267
"And, above all others, we should protect and hold sacred those types, Nature's masterpieces, which are first singled out for destruction on account of their size, or splendour,...
14. CHAPTER XIII."Yes, where the huntsman winds his matin horn, And the couched hare beneath the covert trembles; Where shepherds tend their flocks, and grow their corn Where fashion in our gay...
7. CHAPTER VI.When any tribe of plants or animals becomes very flourishing, and spreads over the face of the earth, occupying regions far apart from one another, where the geographical and ot...
4. CHAPTER III."Berossus, the Chaldæan saith: A time was when the universe was darkness and water, wherein certain animals of frightful and compound forms were generated. There were serpents a...
8. CHAPTER VII."Everything in Nature is engaged in writing its own history: the planet and the pebble are attended by their shadows, the rolling rock leaves its furrows on the mountain side, t...
2. CHAPTER I."Geology, beyond almost every other science, offers fields of research adapted to all capacities and to every condition and circumstance of life in which we may be placed. For w...
13. CHAPTER XII.It would have been strange, considering how much we owe to North America, had the great South American continent not enriched our knowledge of past forms of life on the globe. B...
10. CHAPTER IX."Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream; Where the sea-beasts, rang...
12. CHAPTER XI."What a glorious privilege it would be, could we live back--were it but for an instant--into those ancient times when these extinct animals peopled the earth! to see them all co...
16. CHAPTER XV.Of all the monsters that ever lived on the face of the earth, the giant birds were perhaps the most grotesque. An emu or a cassowary of the present day looks sufficiently strang...
11. CHAPTER X.With the advent of the Cainozoic or Tertiary era, we enter upon the "Age of Mammals," when great quadrupeds suddenly came upon the scene. The place of the reptile was now taken...
6. CHAPTER V.Was there ever an age of dragons? Tradition says there was; but there is every reason to believe that the fierce and blood-thirsty creatures, of which such a variety present the...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The great Ocean of Air was not uninhabited during the long ages of the Mesozoic era, when fishes swarmed in the seas, and reptiles, such as we have attempted to describe in the...
1. CHAPTER XVI. The Great Irish Deer and Steller's Sea-cow 240APPENDICES. I.--Table of Stratified Rocks 251 II.--The Great Sea-serpent 253 III.--List of British Localities where Remains of the Mammoth have been discovered 258 IV.--Literatu...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Another elephantine monster, evidently allied to the Mammoth, was the Mastodon, a creature which there is reason to think was contemporary, in America, with the men of prehistor...
3. CHAPTER II."And some rin up the hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers like sae many road-makers run daft. They say 'tis to see how the warld was made."--_St....
5. CHAPTER IV."The wonders of geology exercise every faculty of the mind--reason, memory, imagination; and though we cannot put our fossils to the question, it is something to be so aroused a...