Selected works in nineteenth-century North American paleontology.
By: Introd. by Keir B. Sterling.
Series: Natural sciences in America
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Paleontology -- North America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
A collection of reprints.
Table of contents: title: Jefferson, T. A memoir on the discovery of certain bones of a quadruped of the clawed kind in the western parts of Virginia.; title: Wistar, C. A description of the bones deposited by the president in the museum of the [American Philosophical] Society, and represented in the annexed plates.; title: Peale, R. An historical disquisition on the mammoth, or great American incognitum, an extinct, immense, carnivorous animal whose fossil remains have been found in North America.; title: Godman, J. Description of a new genus and new species of extinct mammiferous quadruped.; title: Harlan, R. Critical notice of various organic remains hitherto discovered in North America.; title: Leidy, J. The ancient fauna of Nebraska; or, A description of remains of extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, from the Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska.; title: Leidy, J. Hadrosaurus foulkii, a new saurian from the Cretaceous of New Jersey, related to the Iguanodon.; title: Dawson, J. W. Air breathers of the coal period: a descriptive account of the remains of land animals found in the coal formation of Nova Scotia, with remarks on their bearing on theories of the formation of coal and of the origin of species.; title: Cope, E. D. The succession of life in North America.; title: Marsh, O. C. Introduction and succession of vertebrate life in America.