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I.—On the Dawn and Development of Life on the Earth1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
Henry Woodward
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of the British Museum.
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In ‘The East,’ that wonderful cradle of the human race, towards whose sunrise we turn to find the dawn at once of Civilization and Romance, Nature exhibits herself in all the exuberance of her vitality, both of plant and animal. The summer and the rainy season unite, with no intervening period of spring and autumn. Seasons, like days, spring suddenly into full-blown development. Night is succeeded by day without dawn, and day by night without the lingering; hues of eve.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 7 , July 1874 , pp. 289 - 300
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1874

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References

page 290 note 1 Reclus: English edition, edited by Woodward, H. “The Ocean, Atmosphere, and life,” Section II. page 190.Google Scholar

page 292 note 1 Herodotus mistook the Nummulites in the limestone of the Pyramids for Beans. See also Exodus v. 12.Google Scholar

page 292 note 2 A gigantic oval Nummulite (as large as a hen's egg), named Loftusia Persica by Messrs. Carpenter and Brady, was obtained in abundance by W. K. Loftus, Esq., in 1849–52 (during the progress of the commission appointed to demark the Turko-Persian Frontier), at Kellapstun Pass near Dú Púlun Bakhtiyari Mountains, Persia.—Phil. Trans. 1869, p. 739, pl. 77–80.Google Scholar

page 292 note 3 In the youngest bed, the Maastricht-chalk, we find the Mosasaurus, a great lizard, with formidable jaws, which once inhabited the valley of the Mease. The Leiodon, Owen, from the Upper Chalk near Norwich, is closely allied to the Mosasaurus.

page 294 note 1 Amnthopholis, Huxley.

page 294 note 2 One living example has been obtained from the West Indies, and was valued by M. Damon at 50l. 400 species are known in a fossil state extending from the Lower Silurian to the Chalk.

page 294 note 3 Prof. Marsh has discovered two—Ichthyornii dispar, Marsh, and Apatornii celer, Marsh, both from Kansas, U.S.

page 295 note 1 See Prof. Owen's Monograph on the Mesozoic Mammalia, Pal. Soc. 1871, vol. xxiv. pl. i.–iv.Google Scholar

page 297 note 1 The Woodocrintis, a beautiful form of stone-lily, only occurs at one particular locality, in the Carboniferous Limestone near Richmond, Yorkshire.