. Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology. Tongue and Baleen-plates of the Piked Whale,Balcenoptera Boops.* The tongue itself corresponds to the formof the space included by the rami of the lowerjaw, and is consequently of great size in theCachalots and Balsenidse, rising in the latterlike an immense cushion (a, Jig. 259), intothe space between the laminae of baleen (6),and affording a great quantity of the finest the figure it is represented in the PikedWhale, but probably preternaturally enlargedand raised by the extrication of gas caused byputrefaction. I
. Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology. Tongue and Baleen-plates of the Piked Whale,Balcenoptera Boops.* The tongue itself corresponds to the formof the space included by the rami of the lowerjaw, and is consequently of great size in theCachalots and Balsenidse, rising in the latterlike an immense cushion (a, Jig. 259), intothe space between the laminae of baleen (6),and affording a great quantity of the finest the figure it is represented in the PikedWhale, but probably preternaturally enlargedand raised by the extrication of gas caused byputrefaction. It is thick, and its free extremityis generally short, but this is less remarkablein the Phytophaga than in the Zoophaga. * From Fr. Cuvier, Cetaeea, pi. 20. Paternoster-Row, May, 1836. REV. W. D. CONYBEARES LECTURES. Just published, a Second Edition, considerably improved, price 8s. Cloth, lettered, AN ELEMENTARY COURSE OF THEOLOGICAL LECTURES, IN THREE PARTS. PART I.—ON THE EVIDENCES OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED. PART II.—ON THE CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION
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