"Plesiosaurus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Species of Plesiosaurus (P. Etheridgii) from Street, near Glastonbury; with Remarks on the Structure of the Atlas and the Axis Vertebrae and of the Cranium in that Genus" "Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society" 14 ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... reached the period of dotage. It should however be remembered, that the productions of nature are so various, that mere strangeness is very far from sufficient to render doubtful the existence of any creature for which there is evidence; [The number of vertebrae in the neck of the plesiosaurus is a strange but ascertained fact] and that, unless the memoir itself involves principles so contradictory, as to outweigh the evidence of a single witness, [The kind of contradiction which is here alluded to, is that ...
— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage |
