Indians. Crocodiles of modern type appear ; bony fishes, many of them very similar to existing species, almost supplant the forms of fish which predominate in more ancient seas ; and many kinds of living shellfish first become known to us in the chalk.... Discourses Biological and Geological: Essays - Page 32by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1913 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
| English periodicals - 1868 - 582 pages
...state of things are some very modern forms of life, looking like Yankee pedlars among a tribe of Red Indians. Crocodiles of modern type appear ; bony fishes,...ancient seas; and many kinds of living shell-fish first became known to us in the chalk. The vegetation acquires a modern aspect. A few living animals are... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 pages
...previous state of things are some very modern forms of life, looking № " On a Piece of Chalk" 407 Yankee pedlars among a tribe of Eed Indians. Crocodiles...to existing species, almost supplant the forms of lish which predominate in more ancient seas; and many kinds of living shell-fish first became known... | |
| Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...state of things are some very modern forms of life, looking like Yankee pedlars among a tribe of Red Indians. Crocodiles of modern type appear ; bony fishes,...existing species, almost supplant the forms of fish wnich predominate in more ancient seas ; and many kinds of living shell-fish first became known to... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...completely connected. The groups which are dying out flourish, side by side, with the groups which arc now the dominant forms of life. Thus the chalk contains...from those which existed at that remote epoch. The Globigerina of the present day, for example, is not different specifically from that of the chalk ;... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 448 pages
...state of things, are some very modern forms of life, looking like Yankee pedlars among a tribe of Rcd Indians. Crocodiles of modern type appear ; bony fishes,...from those which existed at that remote epoch. The Glvbigerina of the present day, for example, is not different specifically from that of the chalk ;... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1871 - 408 pages
...of Nature through the whole series of those relics of her operations which she has left behind. And it is by the population of the chalk sea that the...from those which existed at that remote epoch. The Globigerina of the present day, for example, is not different specifically from that of the chalk ;... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1871 - 422 pages
...the groups which are now the dominant forms of life. 193 l^tg Smttons, (£ss<ms, mtb ^ftiefcas. [rx.. Thus the chalk contains remains of those strange flying...from those which, existed at that remote epoch. The Globigerina of the present day, for example, is not different specifically from that of the chalk ;... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1874 - 408 pages
...is by the population of the chalk sea that the ancient and the modern inhabitants of the world arej most completely connected. The groups which are dying...from those which existed at that remote epoch. The Globigerina of the present day, for example, is not different specifically from that of the chalk ;... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 354 pages
...state of things, are some very modern forms of life, looking like. Yankee peddlers among a tribe of red Indians. Crocodiles of modern type appear ; bony fishes,...as species from those which existed at that remote epocjo The Globigerina of the present day, for example, is :,ot different specifically from that of... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 350 pages
...state of things, are some very modern forms of life, looking like. Yankee peddlers among a tribe of red Indians. Crocodiles of modern type appear ; bony fishes, many of them very similai' to existing species, almost supplant the forms of fish which predominate in more ancient seas... | |
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