...Russian specimens of Professor Asmus must have been from ciglttrcn to twnty-threc feet long. " Hence," says Mr. Miller, " in the not unimportant circumstance...sturgeons, and bulky swordfishes. They were giants, nut dwarfs." Judging by the analogies which its structure exhibits to that of fishes of the existing...

...filled in the two-and-a-half-feet cod by a plate whose breadth equalled but an inch and a half. Thus, in the not unimportant circumstance of size, the most...bulky sword-fishes. They were giants, not dwarfs. But what of their organization ? Were they fishes low or high in the scale '. On this head we can,...

...Russian specimens of Professor Asmus, must have been from eighteen to twenty-three feet long. " Hence," says Mr. Miller, " in the not unimportant circumstance...bulky swordfishes. They were giants, not dwarfs." Judging by the analogies which its structure exhibits to that of fishes of the existing period, the...

...unimportant circumstance of size, the most ancient ganoids yet known, instead of taking their place?, agreeably to the demands of the development hypothesis,...bulky sword-fishes. They were giants, not dwarfs." It is also a condition of the development hypothesis, that the first ¡r,troduced species of a family...

...unimportant circumstance of size, the most ancient ganoids yet known, instead of taking their place, agreeably to the demands of the development hypothesis,...bulky sword-fishes. They were giants, not dwarfs.' — P. 103. So much for the ichthyic organisms of the Old Red ; what of those of the Silurian systems...

...period. Fish at least twelve feet long, with all the marks of their high order. " Thus," says Hugh Miller, " in the not unimportant circumstance of size,...bulky sword-fishes. They were giants, not dwarfs." Again, the same author says : — " In Cranial bucklers in which the average thickness of the plates...

...agreeably to the demands of the development hypothesis among the sprats, sticklebacks, anil minnow<: of their class, took their place among its huge basking...bulky swordfishes. They were giants, not dwarfs." Judging by the analogies which its structure 'exhibits to that of fishes of the existing period, the...

...development hypothesis, among the sprats, sticklebacks, and minnows of their class, [these ancient ganoids] took their place among its huge basking sharks, gigantic sturgeons, and bulky swordfishes." It is lamentable to think how many well-meaning people must have responded with joy to these conclusions,...

...development hypothesis, among the sprats, sticklebacks, and minnows of their class, [these ancient ganoids] took their place among its huge basking sharks, gigantic sturgeons, and bulky swordfishes." It is lamentable to think how many well-meaning people must have responded with joy to these conclusions,...

...less thiin nine to twelve feet in length, with all the marks of their high order. " Thus," says Hugh Miller, " in the not unimportant circumstance of size,...bulky sword-fishes. They were giants, not dwarfs." • • . In cranial bucklers, in which the average thickness of the plates does not exceed three eighth...