 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1841 - 946 стор.
...under his examination during the last twenty years, must have belonged to no less than seventy-one distinct individuals ; varying in age and magnitude...burst from the egg, to one of which the femur measured twenty-four inches in circumference. Yet notwithstanding that the teeth were more numerous than any... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1841 - 478 стор.
...largely predominated. From a careful calculation, I may venture to state, that not less than seventy individuals, varying in age and magnitude, from the reptile just burst from the egg, and but a few inches in length, to the possessor of the gigantic femur above described, have come under... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1841 - 404 стор.
...largely predominated. From a careful calculation, I may venture to state, that not less than seventy individuals, varying in age and magnitude, from the reptile just burst from the egg, and but a few inches in length, to the possessor of the gigantic femur above described, have come under... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1851 - 678 стор.
...century to obtain even the smallest isolated bones of fish and reptiles from these beds. I can only compare the capricious chance which has hitherto put...another of the same kind, so, when at length the first Iguanodon' s jaw had been procured, a second was soon detected in a different locality, and then the... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1851 - 690 стор.
...exclusive possession of these seven jaws, with the equally strange accident recorded by Dr. Man tell, in his career of discovery in the Wealden. He computed...another of the same kind, so, when at length the first Iguanodon' s jaw had been procured, a second was soon detected in a different locality, and then the... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1851 - 524 стор.
...belonged to no less than 70 distinct individuals, varying in age and magnitude from the reptile first burst from the egg, to one of which the femur measured...solitary example of part of a jaw-bone was obtained." — Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, Feb. 21, 1851,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1851 - 602 стор.
...under his examination during the last twenty years, must have belonged to no less than seventy-one distinct individuals; varying in age and magnitude...the femur measured 24 inches in circumference. Yet notwithstanding that the teeth were more numerous than any other bones, it is remarkable that it was... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1852 - 418 стор.
...under his examination during the last twenty-five years, must have belonged to no less than seventy-one distinct individuals, varying in age and magnitude...just burst from the egg, to one of which the femur or thigh-bone measured above four feet. Some bones have been recently discovered in the sandstones... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 556 стор.
...tooth of a young animal. (Mantell.) Crown of tc n adult, nitude fronl the reptile worn down. (Mantell.) burst from the egg, to one of which the femur measured 24 inches in circumference. Yet notwithstanding that the teeth were more numerous than any other bones, it is remarkable that it was... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1871 - 726 стор.
...which passed under his examination during twenty years must have belonged to no less than seventy-one distinct individuals, varying in age and magnitude...burst from the egg, to one of which the femur measured twenty-four inches in circumference. Yet, notwithstanding that the teeth were more numerous than any... | |
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I can only compare the capricious chance which has hitherto put us in the exclusive possession of these seven jaws, with the equally strange accident recorded by Dr. Mantell, in his career of discovery in the Wealden. He computed that in the course of... 