The Museum of Science and Art, Volume 12Dionysius Lardner Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1856 - Arts |
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Alps Anglo-Parisian basin animal and vegetable Animal Kingdom exclusive appears ascertained Birds Reptiles Fishes Brachiopods BRATA Bryozoa Cambrian Carboniferous catastrophe centres Cephalopods consisted continents covered creation Cretaceous age CRETACEOUS PERIOD crust Crustacea D'Orbigny deposits Devonian DIONYSIUS LARDNER disc distance earth Echinodermata eclipse elevation Elie de Beaumont England epoch Europe extended Extinct Foraminifera formation forms fossil France Gastropods genera geologists globe Greek compound Jurassic age JURASSIC PERIOD Lamellibranchia land and water Mammifers Birds Reptiles marine Mediterranean basin Mineral character mineralogical Mollusca and Radiata Monte Viso moon moon's mountains number of species observer ocean organic remains organisation outlines of land Paleozoic Paleozoic age PALEOZOIC PERIOD Permian Polyparia PRE-ADAMITE preceding present produced Pyrenean basin Pyrenees Revived seas semi-diameters shores Silurian solar species of Mollusca stages strata surface Synopsis teristic terrestrial terrestrial animals Tertiary age TERTIARY PERIOD total number traces tract Triassic velocity VERTE Vertebrata vibrations