 ... colour. Among the separate parcels of hair are some rather redder than the short hair just mentioned, about four inches long, and some bristles nearly black, much thicker than horse-hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin, when first...  The Naturalist's Library - Page 149by William Jardine - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1847 - 490 pages
...eighteen inches long. Tim skin when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the sinull. Il?« now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick. Its color is the dull black of the living Elephant. appear to have been instituted ; they have in some... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...about four inches long, and some bristles nearly black, much thicker than horse-hair, and from 12 to 18 inches long. The skin when first brought to the museum...colour is the dull black of the living elephants. ART. VIII. On the Figure of the Earth. By M. de Laplace. THE multiplied experiments made with the pendulum... | |
 | Richard Owen - Birds, Fossil - 1846 - 622 pages
...twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin, when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smell. It is now quite dry and hard, and where most compact...colour is the dull black of the living Elephants. species which was thus, in so unusual a degree, brought to light, would have been at once pursued to... | |
 | Richard Owen - Birds, Fossil - 1846 - 624 pages
...etghteen inches long. The skin, when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smcll. It it now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is...colour is the dull black of the living Elephants. species which was thus, in so unusual a degree, brought to light, would have been at once pursued to... | |
 | Richard Owen - Birds, Fossil - 1846 - 630 pages
...twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin, when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smell. It is now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick. Ita colour is the dull black of the living Elephants. species which was thus, in so unusual a degree,... | |
 | Richard Owen - Birds, Fossil - 1846 - 628 pages
...eighteen inches long. The skin, when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smell. It i., now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick. lU colour is the dull black of the living Elephants. species which was thus, in so unusual a degree,... | |
 | Geology - 1847 - 490 pages
...twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smell. It is now quite dry and hard, and where most compact is half an inch thick. Its color is the dull black of the living Elephant. f " La longue toison dont cet animal ttait convert... | |
 | Geology - 1857 - 528 pages
...twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin, when first brought to the Museum, was offensive to the smell It is now quite dry and hard, and where most compact...colour is the dull black of the living elephants. f La longue toison dont cet animal 6tait couvert semblerait mcme demon, trer qu'il etait organisfi... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 588 pages
...just mentioned, about four inches long ; and some bristles nearly black, much thicker than horse-hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin...colour is the dull black of the living elephants. (' On the Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant, found in the Ice at the Mouth of the River Lena in Siberia,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 630 pages
...just mentioned, about four inches long; and some bristles nearly black, much thicker than horse-hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long. The skin...colour is the dull black of the living elephants. (' On f he Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant, found in the Ice at the Mouth of the River Lena in Siberia,... | |
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