. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . Ft. In. i)h Height to the tip of the process of the first dorsal vei'tebra, which is the highest point of the trunk, ..... 6 Height to the anterior superior angle of the scapula, . 5 Length from the first dorsal vertebra to the tip of the os coccygis, 5 Height to the tip of the right horn, .... 9 Lateral or horizontal diameter of the thorax, at the widest part, that is at the eleventh rib, ...... 2 Depth of the thorax, from the tip of the process of the eighth dorsal ver- tebra, to the sternum at the junction of the eighth r
. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . Ft. In. i)h Height to the tip of the process of the first dorsal vei'tebra, which is the highest point of the trunk, ..... 6 Height to the anterior superior angle of the scapula, . 5 Length from the first dorsal vertebra to the tip of the os coccygis, 5 Height to the tip of the right horn, .... 9 Lateral or horizontal diameter of the thorax, at the widest part, that is at the eleventh rib, ...... 2 Depth of the thorax, from the tip of the process of the eighth dorsal ver- tebra, to the sternum at the junction of the eighth rib, . 2 2 This superb fossil was dug up in the parish of Kirk Ralaff, and secured for our University Museum by the late Duke of AthoU. It T,vas found imbedded in loose shell-marl, associated with numerous branches and roots of trees; over the mai-l was a bed of sand; above the sand a stratum of peat, principally composed of small branches and decayed leaves; and on the surface of all, the common alluvial soil of the country. Fossil —-The researches of M. Adolphe Brongniart into fossil organic remains, have in a great measure led to a knowledge of what must have been tho appearance and temperature of the earth, when these fossils were vegetating on its surface; and also how far the various epochs of the existence of those plants accord with those remote Zoological epochs established by modern geologists. The primitive vegetation, according to M. Brongniart, correspondi^d in its periods to the three successive formations of soil, from tho earliest times, from the Creation down to that of the great Diluvian Change. To the first period, which is co-etaneous with the simplest and the oldest formation of the globe, and lasted until the occurrence of deposits of coal strata, belong those vegetable bodies, the structure of which is in the highest degree simple. These organic remains are also remarkable for their rarity and the excessive magnitude of their dimensions. With res
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