 | 1845 - 716 str.
...professor to clothe his reasoning in other words than his own. " Dr. Fleming," writes the professor, " has observed that ' no one acquainted with the gramineous...rein-deer.' But we may readily believe, that any one cognisant of the food of the elk, might be likely to have suspected cryptogamic vegetation to have... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 str.
...even to offer a feasible conjecture, concerning that uf the extinct .species. No one, as he observes, acquainted with the gramineous character of the food...would have assigned a lichen to the rein-deer. But, admitting that the trees and herbage on which the fossil elephants and rhinoceroses may have fed were... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 str.
...even to offer a feasible conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one, as he observes, acquainted with the gramineous character of the food...would have assigned a lichen to the rein-deer. But, admitting that the trees and herbage on which the fossil elephants and rhinoceroses may have fed were... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 str.
...living species of British testacea. offer a probable conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of...roe, would have assigned a lichen to the reindeer." Travellers mention that, even now, when the climate of eastern Asia is so much colder than the same... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 396 str.
...even to ofi'er a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with gramineous character of the food of our fallow-deer,...would have assigned a lichen to the reindeer." But as all agree that the whole genera of elephants lived on vegetable food, the difficulty scarcely subsides... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1837 - 396 str.
...enable us to determine, or even to offer a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of...would have assigned a lichen to the reindeer." But as all agree that the whole genera of elephants lived on vegetable food, the difficulty scarcely subsides... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 str.
...enable us to determine, or even to offer a probable conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of...roe, would have assigned a lichen to the rein-deer." Travellers mention that, even now, when the climate of eastern Asia is so much colder than the same... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 str.
...enable us to determine, oi even to offer a probable conjecture concerning that of the extinct species. No one acquainted with the gramineous character of...would have assigned a lichen to the reindeer." But as all agree that the whole genera of elephants lived on vegetable food, the difficulty scarcely subsides... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1846 - 624 str.
...further investigations of the relation of its organization to its habits, climate, and mode of life, appear to have been instituted ; they have in some...instances, indeed, been rather checked than promoted. Ur. Fleming has observed that " no one acquainted with the gramineous character of the food of our... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 str.
...professor to clothe his reasoning in other words than his own. "Dr. Fleming," writes the professor, "has observed that 'no one acquainted with the gramineous...rein-deer.' But we may readily believe, that any one cognisant of the food of the elk, might be likely to have suspected cryptogamic vegetation to have... | |
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Siberian rhinoceros, had hinted, that ' the kind of food which the existing species of elephant prefers will not enable us to determine, or even to offer a probable conjecture, concerning that of the extinct species. No one,' he said, ' acquainted with... 
