Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York : D. Appleton & company · leaf 114
en intoaccount. It certainly contrasts very unfavourably with thatof seals, and still more unfavourably with that of fishes.This is clue to his small hands and feet, the slow movements PBOGBESSION ON AND IN THE WATER. 89 of his arms and legs, and the awkward manner in which theyare applied to and… … FIG. 44.—The Turtle (Chelonia imbricata\ adapted for swimming and diving,the extremities being relatively larger than in the seal, sea-bear, and wal-rus. The anterior extremities have a thick anterior margin and a thinposterior one, and in this respect resemble wings. Compare with figs. 86and 37,…
Animal locomotion · Aeronautics
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