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Every person interested in shells has felt the need of a (p. 223) manual of the shell-bearing animals of sea and land, comparable to the comprehensive manuals provided for those who wish to study birds or insects or trees ....
A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold
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Mr. Murray says that it is now shown that many submarine mountains exist, which are usually volcanic, and which, being built upon by various forms of shell-bearing animals, could be raised to such a level that ordinary corals could build upon them.
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Cypris has recently been observed by Claus: -- "The youngest stages are shell-bearing Nauplius-forms."
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The northern or seaward face of the hill is much plastered with drift, but none is to be found on the landward side, and it is suggested that the shell-bearing material is the ground-moraine of
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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The shell-bearing deposits of Moel Tryfan were examined by a committee of the British Association.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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On the other hand, it is true that in the Lower Cambrian not even the shell-bearing tetrabranchiates have yet been discovered.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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The high-level shell-bearing deposits of Moel Tryfan, Gloppa, near
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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We detect their remains in a perfect state of keeping in almost every shell-bearing bed, till we reach the Red and Coraline Crags, where we find them for the last time; and, on passing into older and deeper lying beds, we see their places taken by other shells, of species altogether distinct.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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[19] Forbes and Hanley enumerate one hundred and sixty bivalves, and two hundred and thirty-two univalves, -- in all three hundred and ninety-two species, as the only known shell-bearing molluscs of the existing
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Though so barren elsewhere on the east coast of Scotland, the clay is everywhere in Caithness a shell-bearing deposit; and no sooner had Mr. Dick determined the fact for himself, at the expense of many a fatiguing journey, and many an hour's hard digging, than he found that it had been ascertained long before, though, from the very inadequate style in which it had been recorded, science had in scarce any degree benefited by the discovery.
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