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Notices of Memoirs

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Notices of Memoirs
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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 50 , August 1868 , pp. 357 - 373
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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page 357 note 1 Being a Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on Friday, 02 7, 1868.Google Scholar

page 357 note 2 The only complete and systematic statement of the doctrine with which I am acquainted is that contained in Mr. Herbert Spencer's “System of Philosophy,” a work which should be carefully studied by all who desire to know whither scientific thought is tending.

page 361 note 1 The fossil has been described by Professor Owen in the “Philosophical Transactions” for 1863.Google Scholar

page 362 note 1 It will be understood that I do not suggest any direct affinity between Pterodactyles and Bats.

page 363 note 1 The so-called “coracoid” of Megalosaurus is the ilium. I am indebted to Professor Phillips, and to the splendid collection of Megalosaurian remains which he hag formed at Oxford, for most important evidence touching this reptile.

page 366 note 1 Vide “The Microscope in Geology,” Popular Science Review, vol. vi., 10. 1867, p. 355, et seq.Google Scholar

page 368 note 1 Everything in Nature appears, faster or slower, to become more or less altered.

page 369 note 1 Also πέτρα, whence the synonym Petralogy. In the, for its time, very excellent treatise on rocks—Pinkerton's “Petralogy,” 2 vols. London, 1811—the distinction between Lithology and Petralogy is fully explained.Google Scholar