The Journal of microscopy and natural science . n^ leetK of SlotK. %..i/r^--«^^^^l ^ .^r^^^ i ?•-_ -^ -, ::S^ ?>>^-:. r. c ^ ^^ Port-iOTi of Tooth, of Megatherium [163] Zhc flDicro0Cope in ipal^ontoIOQ?* By Malcolm Poignand, Plate 17. THE Palaeontologist, working at the scanty and imperfectremains of the fauna of long past ages found scatteredthrough the deposits of former seas and rivers, with a viewof picturing life as it existed in varied conditions through all thevast periods of geological time, has to fill up many a wide gap inthe records of the past by his knowledge of the pre
The Journal of microscopy and natural science . n^ leetK of SlotK. %..i/r^--«^^^^l ^ .^r^^^ i ?•-_ -^ -, ::S^ ?>>^-:. r. c ^ ^^ Port-iOTi of Tooth, of Megatherium [163] Zhc flDicro0Cope in ipal^ontoIOQ?* By Malcolm Poignand, Plate 17. THE Palaeontologist, working at the scanty and imperfectremains of the fauna of long past ages found scatteredthrough the deposits of former seas and rivers, with a viewof picturing life as it existed in varied conditions through all thevast periods of geological time, has to fill up many a wide gap inthe records of the past by his knowledge of the present; and indoing this, he labours under a double difficulty, namely, that theold remains are often only mere fragments of damaged skeletonsof organisms having a most distant resemblance to their nearestmodern representatives, and also that all is not by any meansknown or settled about the new. In dealing with a problem so difficult, no fact, however minute,can be neglected ; for it may be a link, however small, in awonderful and complex chain. Thus, every detail of microscopicstructure becomes of real importance and int
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