ossiferous

On the discovery of an ossiferous cavern of Pliocene age at Dove Holes, Buxton (Derbyshire).

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To it also must be referred the _till_ of Scotland and the great brown clay of England, and our vast beds of gravel and superficial rubbish, connected with the deluvium in the history of _ossiferous caverns_, of which that examined by Dr. BUCKLAND at Kirkdale is an example.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

_Brixham Cave_, called also Windmill Hill Cavern, is a well-known ossiferous cave situated near Brixham, on the brow of a hill composed of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

It is just, at any rate, to recognize that even in his remotest resorts for temporary rest and retirement from the cares of government, he led the same kind of plain, modest life, spending all his leisure hours in arranging his collections of natural history, more especially the palaeo-ethnological or prehistoric, for which the ossiferous caverns of the Island of Capri supplied him with abundant materials.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

I am rather inclined to admit the existence of some animal resembling in structure the human race -- of some monkey of the first geological epochs, like that discovered by M. Lartet in the ossiferous deposit of Sansan.

Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

Besides the bear and hyena, upwards of a hundred species of extinct animals have been found in the ossiferous caves of Great Britain, among them being those of the elephant and a rhinoceros.

The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The late Dr. Schmerling of Liege, a skilful anatomist and palaeontologist, after devoting several years to the exploring of the numerous ossiferous caverns which border the valleys of the

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

Brazil, the only equatorial region where ossiferous caverns have yet been explored, that the discovery, in a fossil state, of extinct forms allied to the human, could be looked for.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

The ossiferous caves of the peninsula of Gower in Glamorganshire have been diligently explored of late years by Dr. Falconer and

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

In carrying out this work, about 12 feet of the left bank was cut away, and a cavernous fissure, choked up to the roof with ossiferous loam, was then, for the first time, exposed to view.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836