Sketches of creation : a popular view of some of the grand conclusions of the sciences in reference to the history of matter and of life. Together with a statement of the intimations of science respecting the primordial condition and the ultimate destiny of the earth and the solar system / by Alexander Winchell.

  • Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sketches of creation : a popular view of some of the grand conclusions of the sciences in reference to the history of matter and of life. Together with a statement of the intimations of science respecting the primordial condition and the ultimate destiny of the earth and the solar system / by Alexander Winchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. p*)i' so'. A Carboniferous Cephalopod (Goniatites Allei) ll« 51. A Mesozoic Cephalopod {Baculitea ovatus) 1 62. An Ammonite (Ammonites canaliculars) ^ 53. Plans of Septa among Chambered Shells ™ 54. Garpikes of North America * 55 The Continent at the end of the Silurian Age 56. Au Upper Silurian Sea-weed (Arthrophyeus Harlani) I** 5T. Ideal Landscape of the Devonian Age 58 Trends of the great Limestone Masses of the United States l«5 59. Portrait of Hugh Miller, the Scottish Geologist 60. Miners going down a Shaft 61. View in an English Coal Mine 62. Explosion in a Coal Mine 63. Miner at Work—old manner of working ™ 64. Coal-plants on Shale 65. Ideal Landscape of the Coal Period ~ 66. Remains of a Lepidodendron ' 6T. Vertical Tree-trirnks in a Coal Mine 68. The Continent at the end of Paleozoic Time Frond of an ancient Tree-fern (Pecopteris) «» 69. Labyrinthodon (restored) 70. Ideal Landscape of the Age of Eeptiles ^ 71. Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur in Conflict igl 72. Haunts of the Pterodactyl lg3 73. Footprints from the Connecticut Valley ig4 74. A Three-toed Reptile (restored) 192 75. Tooth of an extinct New Jersey Saurian.......... —••••• 76 A gigantic extinct Reptile of North America {Hadrosaurus Foulki) 193 77. The Continent at the end of Mesozoic Time ^ 78. The Bad Lands of Dakotah 'JU'''^,\^,'\911 79. Portrait of David Dale Owen, the eminent Western Geologist £1 80. Great Glacier, Bute Inlet, Alaska ns 61. Glacier Furrows and Scratches in Michigan 82. River issuing from a Swiss Glacier . ..• • • ■ • •• • „ 83. Phenomena of Wells and Springs in Drift Materials ™ 84. Former High Waters of the Great Lakes 24_ 85. Sugar Loaf, Mackinac Island 24S 86. Arched Rock, Mackinac Island 253 87. Mining Cedar Logs in a buried Swamp 274 88. The Noble Oil Well, Pennsylvania 2g5 89. Blowing and Flowing Oil Wells ' . ' . 094 90 View of the Salt Works, Mason City,West Virginia ^g 91. Section across the Lower Peninsula of Michigan m 92. Section of the Onondaga Salt Basin, New York '/ 313 93. Portrait of Professor James D. Dana •• •••• • •,22 94 A Reminiscence of the Trilobites (Glyptonotus antarcUcus) 32„ 95. Section across the Basin of Middle Tennessee ^ 96. Upper Cataract Creek, near Big Canon, Colorado • • 97. Big Canon of the Colorado 351 98. Pre-historic Man and Scenes 355 no Extinct eiant Elk compared with Man • • • • loo! Saving by a Pre-historic Artist-the Hairy Mammoth ....... Jg 101. The Hairy Mammoth (restored)