 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 pages
...primeval life ; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse...which these relics are the infallible historians. Sucli are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...primeval life ; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse...which these relics are the infallible historians. Such are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved,... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...primeval life; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse...which these relics are the infallible historians. Such are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved,... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 pages
...bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him—little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing...these relics are the infallible historians. "Such are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient _ remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved,... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...bending branches, with ' their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before ' hiriv, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and...which these relics are the infallible ' historians.' Dr Buckland's work is terminated with six short, but interesting chapters of a general but very interesting... | |
 | 1837
...primeval life ; their scaly stems and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse...faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which oegan and terminated in times of which these relics are the infallible historians.' Such remains consist... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 pages
...primeval life ; their scaly stems and bending branches with their delicate apparatus of foliage are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse...which these relics are the infallible historians. Such are the grand MM natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...primeval life . their scaly stems and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him ; little impaired by the lapse...which these relics are the infallible historians."* The extent and thickness of the coal formations appear almost incredible to those unaccustomed to visit... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 464 pages
...delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of indefinite ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems...which these relics are the infallible historians. Such are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 pages
...before him; little impaired by the lappe of couni.ViS aires, and bearing faithful records of exiinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in times of which these relic« are the infallible 1 historians." "Surh are the grand natural herbaria, wherein these nioet... | |
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... of their primeval life; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him ; little impaired by the lapse of countless Ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation,... 
