Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 87
most char-^^ ^S^iSk acteristic Fish of the Devonian Period. namCS In this epoch of the worlds history we see the first ap-proach to a condition of things resembling that nowprevaihng, and Sir Charles Lyell has most fitly named 60 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky … its three divisions, the Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene. The termination of the three words is made from the Greek wordKainos, re-cent ; whileUos signi-fies dawn,Melon less,and Pleionmore. Thus Fish of the Carboniferous Period. Foopnp indi- cates the dawn of recent species. Pliocene their in-crease,…
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