 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1838 - 606 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost everywhere imbedded in... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1839 - 330 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body, whether animal or vege* See Silliman's Amer. Journ. of Sci. vol. xxviii. 1835 ; also Principles of Geology, Index, "... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1841 - 486 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earlh by natural causes. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost... | |
 | 1872 - 882 Seiten
...in this direction, and first at his definition of a fossil. " By fossil," he says (p. 5), "is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...has been buried in the earth by natural causes." The word as used at an early day included minerals, no less than organic forms, and thus meant, as etymologically... | |
 | William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger - 1846 - 258 Seiten
...of common origin. FOS'SIL — fr. \at.fudia, I dig. Any organic body, or the traces of any organic body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes (P- 21). FOSSILI'FEROUS — Containing fossils. FOS'SILIZED — Converted into a fossil. FU'LCRUM —... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1846 - 358 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body, whether animal or vege* See Silliman's Amer. Journ. of Sci. vol. s.wiii. 1835 ; also Principles of Geology, Index, "... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost everywhere imbedded in... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost everywhere imbedded in... | |
 | Friedrich Schoedler - 1858 - 728 Seiten
...simple and compound. FO'SSIL. From the Lat fodio, I dig. Any organic body, or the traces of any organic body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Fossin'FEROtis. Containing fossils : fossil-bearing. FRA'GRAXS. Lat Fragrant; odorous. FKA'GIUS. Lat... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1869 - 618 Seiten
...flowers, or of leaves. FO'SSIL. From the Lat. fodio, I dig. Any organic body, or the traces of any organic body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. FOSSILI'FEROUS. Containing fossils : fossil-bearing. FORMI'CIDJS. From the Lot. fo'rmica, an ant, and... | |
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By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. 
