. Relics of primeval life [microform] : beginning of life in the dawn of geological time. Paleontology; Paléontologie. THE DAWN ^>K LIFE 153 of " funnels " and tubes penetrating the mass (Figs. 33, 34), a confluence of the lamin;e, constituting a porous cortex or limiting structure. Specimens of this kind were figured in 1888, and I was enabled to add to the. Fig. 34. -Section of the Ihue, of a spciiinen of Eozoon. This specimen sliovvs an osculiforin, cylindrical funnel, cut in such a manner as to sliow its reticulated 7tuilt ami the dcsceTit of the ; luwanl it. Two-third


. Relics of primeval life [microform] : beginning of life in the dawn of geological time. Paleontology; Paléontologie. THE DAWN ^>K LIFE 153 of " funnels " and tubes penetrating the mass (Figs. 33, 34), a confluence of the lamin;e, constituting a porous cortex or limiting structure. Specimens of this kind were figured in 1888, and I was enabled to add to the. Fig. 34. -Section of the Ihue, of a spciiinen of Eozoon. This specimen sliovvs an osculiforin, cylindrical funnel, cut in such a manner as to sliow its reticulated 7tuilt ami the dcsceTit of the ; luwanl it. Two-thirds of natural size. From a phi)U)^ra|ih. Col. ('ai|ii'nter, also iir Rcdpath Museum. [This illustration (from Prof, i'rcstwicli's " (lecjo^jy," vol. ii. p. ai) has been courteously lent by the Clarendon Press, Oxford,] characters of the species that the original and proper form was " broadly turbinate with a depression or cavity above, and occasionally with oscula or pits penetrating the ; The great flattened masses thus seemed to rei)resent confluent or overgrown. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1820-1899. New York; Toronto : F. H. Revell


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