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9781588341228

The Dinosaur Papers 1676-1906

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    9781588341228

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    1588341224

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-11-01
  • Publisher: Harpercollins
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Notes on the Text xv
Credits for the Translations xvii
ONE: Humble Beginnings
1(72)
An Excerpt from The Natural History of Oxfordshire: From the Introduction and Chapter 5 ``Of Formed Stones''
9(9)
Robert Plot
An Excerpt from Researches into the Fossilized Bones of Quadrupeds: On the Fossilized Bones of Crocodiles, and Particularly on Those Found in the Vicinity of Havre and Honfleur, with Remarks on the Saurian Skeletons of Thuringia
18(17)
Baron Georges Cuvier
Notice of the Discovery of a New Fossil Animal, Forming a Link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile, Together with General Remarks on the Osteology of the Ichthyosaurus
35(16)
H. T. De La Beche
Rev. W. D. Conybeare
Notice on the Megalosaurus or Great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield
51(9)
Rev. William Buckland
On the Discovery of an Almost Perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus
60(8)
Rev. W. D. Conybeare
Notice on the Iguanodon, a Newly Discovered Fossil Reptile, from the Sandstone of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex
68(5)
Gideon A. Mantell
TWO: Mysterious Mesozoic Monsters
73(88)
On the Discovery of a New Species of Pterodactyle in the Lias of Lyme Regis
81(5)
Rev. William Buckland
An Excerpt from Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde: Iguanodon Mantell, Iguanosaurus anglicum
86(1)
Friedrich Holl
An Excerpt from The Geology of the South-East of England: Saurians
87(33)
Gideon Mantell
On the Discovery of Fossil Bones of the Iguanodon, in the Iron Sand of the Wealden Formation in the Isle of Wight, and in the Isle of Purbeck
120(6)
Rev. William Buckland
On the Structure of the Fossil Saurians from the ``Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschopfe''
126(13)
Hermann von Meyer
Ornithichnology: Description of the Foot Marks of Birds (Ornithichnites) on New Red Sandstone in Massachusetts
139(19)
Prof. Edward Hitchcock
Communications, Sent to Professor Bronn (Mittheilungen, an Professor Bronn gerichtet)
158(3)
Hermann von Meyer
THREE: Dinosauria and the English Domain
161(88)
An Excerpt from the Report on British Fossil Reptiles: Dinosaurians
169(31)
Richard Owen
On the Structure of the Jaws and Teeth of the Iguanodon
200(19)
Gideon Algernon Mantell
On Visual Education as Applied to Geology: Illustrated by Diagrams and Models of the Geological Restorations at the Crystal Palace
219(8)
B. Waterhouse Hawkins
On Natural History, as Knowledge, Discipline, and Power
227(5)
Thomas Henry Huxley
On Prof. Huxley's Attempted Refutation of Cuvier's Laws of Correlation, in the Reconstruction of Extinct Vertebrate Forms
232(9)
H. Falconer
On the Method of Palaeontology
241(8)
Thomas H. Huxley
FOUR: Beyond English Dinosaurs: America, France, and Germany
249(110)
Notices of Remains of Extinct Reptiles and Fishes, Discovered by Dr. F. V. Hayden in the Bad Lands of the Judith River, Nebraska Territory
259(3)
Joseph Leidy
Remarks Concerning Hadrosaurus
262(5)
Mr. William Parker Foulke
Dr. Joseph Leidy
An Excerpt from Memoir on the Tertiary Deposits of Ariege, Exposed along a Transverse Section Drawn between Fossat and Ailleres, Passing by Mas-d'Azil, and Projected on the Meridian of This Site
267(2)
Abbe Pouech
Notes on the Fossils Collected by Mr. Pouech in the Tertiary Formation of the Department of Ariege
269(2)
Mr. d'Archiac
An Excerpt from Tortoises and Saurians from Lithographic Limestone: V. Compsognathus longipes Wagn
271(5)
Dr. Andreas Wagner
On the Archeopteryx of von Meyer, with a Description of the Fossil Remains of a Long-Tailed Species, from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen
276(13)
Professor Richard Owen
An Excerpt from Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States: Hadrosaurus foulkii
289(33)
Joseph Leidy
On the Discovery of the Remains of a Gigantic Dinosaur in the Cretaceous of New Jersey
322(4)
Professor Edward Drinker Cope
The Fossil Reptiles of New Jersey
326(7)
Prof. E. D. Cope
On a New Large Enaliosaur
333(1)
Professor Edward Drinker Cope
An Excerpt from Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America: Elasmosaurus Cope
334(17)
Edward D. Cope
Note on the Fossil Reptiles from the Cretaceous Fluvio-Lacustrine Deposits of the Fuveau Lignite Basin
351(8)
Mr. Philippe Matheron
FIVE: Dinosauria and the Triumph of Iguanodon
359(90)
On the Animals Which Are Most Nearly Intermediate between Birds and Reptiles
369(6)
Professor Huxley
On the Structure of Calcareous Eggshells and the Characteristics That Can Be Deduced from Them
375(3)
M. P. Gervais
On Some Differences between the London and Berlin Specimens Referred to Archaeopteryx
378(2)
Prof. H. G. Seeley
First Note on the Dinosaurs of Bernissart
380(9)
Mr. L. Dollo
Second Note on the Dinosaurs of Bernissart
389(5)
Mr. L. Dollo
Third Note on the Dinosaurs of Bernissart
394(20)
Mr. L. Dollo
Fourth Note on the Dinosaurs of Bernissart
414(16)
Mr. L. Dollo
Fifth Note on the Dinosaurs of Bernissart
430(13)
Mr. L. Dollo
On the Classification of the Fossil Animals Commonly Named Dinosauria
443(6)
H. G. Seeley
SIX: Conquest of the Western Interior
449(48)
Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. Part VI: Restoration of Brontosaurus
457(4)
Professor O. C. Marsh
The Classification and Affinities of Dinosaurian Reptiles
461(3)
O. C. Marsh
Restoration of Triceratops
464(4)
O. C. Marsh
Restoration of Stegosaurus
468(3)
O. C. Marsh
Models of Extinct Vertebrates
471(4)
Professor Henry F. Osborn
Tyrannosaurus and Other Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaurs
475(5)
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Tyrannosaurus, Upper Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaur: Second Communication
480(17)
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Notes 497(24)
Index 521

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