Identifier: museumofnaturalh31869rich (find matches)
Title: The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 Dallas, W. S. (William Sweetland), 1824-1890 Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886 Baird, William, 1803-1872 White, Adam, 1817-1879 Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969, former owner. DSI Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London Glasgow Edinburgh : William MacKenzie
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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W General Characters.- -REPTILES. General Chakactek^. nature passed from forms peculiar to creatures of thewaters, to those which characterize the vertcbratedanimals of the land. In the account of the creation,in the first chapter of Genesis, we appear to have rep-tiles mentioned twice. At the commencement of thefifth day, or epoch, after the waters had been gatheredtogether, and dry land had made its appearance, lightedup and warmed by the rays of the sun, God said. Letthe waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life. While the land was still in a soft,miry state, these huge aquatic reptiles of an amphibiousnature, the remains of which are now found in thedeposits of the fifth period, made their appearance,mixed with great whales, and other moving animals which the waters brought forth abundantly. Thenwere formed those immense creatures of most fantasticforms, the massiveness of whose bodies reqiured deepponds in which they could disport themselves, and in KiK- 1-
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Plesiosaurua H:the thick mud at the bottom of which their impress hasremained. They perished, no doubt, in proportion asmoisture failed them on a soil in process of evaporation;and by the time the crust of the earth had become firmand hard, the immense Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri,animals with the body of lizards, the fins or padiiles ofthe turtle, and the neck of the serpent, had disappearedas living beings. At this period it was, or on the sixthday, that terrestrial reptiles were formed, when Godsaid, Let the earth bring forth the li\ang creature afterhis kind, cattle and creeping thing. By the time thechef-dcetwre of creation, Man, made his appearance,many species of reptiles had not only lived upon theglobe, but had disappeared from its surface, llixed upwith the traditions of almost all nations, and veiled inthe haze and obscurity of antiquity, there have beenhanded down also to us accounts of curious monsters,dragons, &c., which have been generally looked uponas fabulous andmuseumofnaturalh31869rich

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