 | 1850 - 546 pages
...gar-fish, as evidenced by its internal structure. "One step further was made during this excursion, when, at Niagara, a living specimen of Lepidosteus...as a Saurian, and as no other fish in creation does " Investigations into the embryonic growth of recent fishes have led me to the discovery that the changes... | |
 | Louis Agassiz - 1850 - 544 pages
...Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.* One step further was made during this excursion, when, at Niagara, a living specimen of Lepidosteus...a Saurian, and as no other fish in creation does. This reptilian character of the older fishes is not the only striking character which distinguishes... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot - 1850 - 538 pages
...Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.* One step further was made during this excursion, when, at Niagara, a living specimen of Lepidosteus...the neck freely, right and left and upwards, as a baurian, and as no other fish in creation does. This reptilian character of the older fishes is not... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot - 1850 - 550 pages
...Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.* One step further was made during this excursion, when, at Niagara, a living specimen of Lepidosteus...upon the neck freely, right and left and upwards, us a Saurian, and as no other fish in creation does. This reptilian character of the older fishes is... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...gar-fish, as evidenced by its internal structure. " One step further was made during this excursion, when, at Niagara, a living specimen of Lepidosteus was caught for me, and to my great deligTit, as well as to my utter astonishment, I saw this fish moving its head upon the neck freely,... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - 1859 - 446 pages
...his great delight, as well as to his utter astonishment, he saw this fish moving its head upon its neck freely, right and left, and upwards, as a saurian, and as no other fish in creation does." The true native Yankee has a mode wholly his own, and somewhat redolent of the revolver and the bowie-knife,... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - 1859 - 450 pages
...his great delight, as well as to his utter astonishment, he saw this fish moving its head upon its neck freely, right and left, and upwards, as a saurian, and as no other fish in creation docs." The true native Yankee has a mode wholly his own, and somewhat redolent of the revolver and... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 pages
...his great delight, as well as to his utter astonishment, he saw this fish moving its head upon its neck freely, right and left, and upwards, as a saurian, and as no other fish in creation docs." The true native Yankee has a mode wholly his own, and somewhat redolent of the revolver and... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1869 - 436 pages
...his great delight, as well as to his utter astonishment, he saw this fish moving its head upon its neck freely, right and left, and upwards, as a saurian, and as no other fish in creation does.' The true native Yankee has a mode wholly his own, and somewhat redolent of the revolver and the bowie-knife,... | |
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... character of Lepidosteus was not only shown in its solid parts, but was even exemplified in the peculiar structure of its respiratory apparatus and its cellular air bladder, as I have pointed out in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.*... 