| 1838 - 542 pages
...that the pedunculated form of the frontal process, in the shape of horns, recals that character in the Muntjak deer, while the stiff hairs which crown their...it in systematic arrangement with the Cavicornia. From 9 comparison of the characters which Colonel Smith institutes, he thinks that the Giraffe appears... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...that the peduncukted form of the frontal process, in the shape of horns, recals that character in the Muntjak deer, while the stiff hairs which crown their...it in systematic arrangement with the Cavicornia. From a comparison of the characters which Colonel Smith institutes, he thinks that the Giraffe appear*... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...frontal process, in the shape of horns, recals that character in the Muntjakdeer, while the stift' hairs which crown their summits seem to want only...it in systematic arrangement with the Cavicornia. From a comparison of the characters which Colonel Smith institutes, he thinks that the Giraffe appears... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...shape of horns, recals that character in the Muntjak deer, while the stift' hairs which crown iheir summits seem to want only the gluten to cement them...true horns and embody it in systematic arrangement wilh the Cavicomia. From a comparison of the characters which Colonel Smith institutes, he thinks that... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 798 pages
...bristly hairs at the summit, surrounding a bare apex. These bristles, according to some naturalists, want only the gluten to cement them into true horns, and embody the animal in the systematic arrangement of the cavicornia. The camelopard is assimilated to the camel... | |
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