The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5] : $b Fossil mammaliaOwen, Richard
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The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5] : $b Fossil mammalia
Owen, Richard
Beagle Expedition (1831-1836); Mammals, Fossil; Paleontology -- South America; Zoology
_Ibid._ p. 347, 367.
Footnote 4:
_Ibid._ p. 337. Pl. 26. fig. 7.
Footnote 5:
Philosophical Transactions, vol. lviii. p. 34. (1768.)
Footnote 6:
Bridgewater Treatise, p. 139.
Footnote 7:
Geological Transactions, vol. iii. p. 437. pl. 44, 45, 46.
Footnote 8:
Quoted by Cuvier, Ossem. Foss. Ed. iv. tom. ii. p. 351.
Footnote 9:
Τοξον, arcus; οδους, dens.
Footnote 10:
Mem. de l’Acad. des Sciences de Paris, 1764, p. 568.
Footnote 11:
True fangs exist only in teeth of temporary growth, they may be one or
more in number, but always diminish in size as they recede from the
crown of the tooth, and are either solid, or with a very small canal.
Footnote 12:
This was written before an examination of the fragment of a lower jaw,
forming part of Mr. Darwin’s collection of Fossil Remains, had led me
to suspect that it was referrible to the genus Toxodon; should this
suspicion prove correct, the four unequal incisors of the upper jaw
are opposed to six equal sized ones in the lower.
Footnote 13:
I have ascertained that this elastic ligament exists in the neck of
the Dugong.
Footnote 14:
The German Translator (See _Frorieps Notizen_., 1837, p. 119) of the
abstract of my description of the Toxodon, published in the
Proceedings of the Geological Society, asks, what is the _Mutica_
(misprinted _Muticata_), of Linnæus? The term is quoted from the
Systema Naturæ, Ed. xii. p. 24. Linnæus first divides Mammalia into
three groups, according to modifications of the locomotive organs,
viz. _Unguiculata_, _Ungulata_, _Mutica_, and subdivides these,
according to modifications of the dentary organs, into the orders,
_Bruat_, _Glires_, _Primates_, &c.
Footnote 15:
Besides the relation to _food requiring much comminution_, which teeth
with persistent pulps bear, they are also connected with the
_longevity of the individual_. The term of life in a herbivorous
animal, with grinders of temporary growth, is, of necessity, dependent
on the duration of these essential aids to nutrition; thus, a sheep
generally wears down its grinders in twelve years, and its natural
term of life is consequently limited to about that period.
Footnote 16:
Μακρος _longus_, αυχην _cervix_: from the latter word Illiger derived
_Auchenia_, his generic name of the Llama, Vicugna, &c.
Footnote 17:
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