. The ancient life-history of the earth; a comprehensive outline of the principles and leading facts of palæontological science. Paleontology. 2K2 HISTORICAL PAL^OXTOLOGY. Oolite), there has been discovered, however, the at present unique skeleton of a Bird well known under the name of the Archceopteryx macrura (figs. i8i, 182). The only known. Fig. \.%\.—Archceopteryx macrura, showing tail and tail-feathers, with detached bones. Reduced. From the Lithographic Slate of Solenhofen. specimen—-now in the British Museum—unfortunately does not exhibit the skull; but the fine-grained matrix has pre-

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. The ancient life-history of the earth; a comprehensive outline of the principles and leading facts of palæontological science. Paleontology. 2K2 HISTORICAL PAL^OXTOLOGY. Oolite), there has been discovered, however, the at present unique skeleton of a Bird well known under the name of the Archceopteryx macrura (figs. i8i, 182). The only known. Fig. \.%\.—Archceopteryx macrura, showing tail and tail-feathers, with detached bones. Reduced. From the Lithographic Slate of Solenhofen. specimen—-now in the British Museum—unfortunately does not exhibit the skull; but the fine-grained matrix has pre-. 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 Nicholson, Henry Alleyne, 1844-1899. Edinburgh, London, Blackwood

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