Dragons of the Air

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Author

Seeley, H. G. (Harry Govier), 1839-1909

Title

Dragons of the Air: An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QE: Science: Geology

Subject

Pterosauria

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35316

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35316

Release Date

February 18, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.DRAGONS OF THE AIR — DRAGONS OF THE AIR — AN ACCOUNT OF EXTINCT FLYING REPTILES
3. 3.H. G. SEELEY, F.R.S. — WITH EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS — NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & CO. LONDON: METHUEN & CO. 1901
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — DRAGONS OF THE AIR
7. 7.CHAPTER I FLYING REPTILES
8. 8.CHAPTER II HOW A REPTILE IS KNOWN — DEFINITION OF REPTILES BY THEIR VITAL ORGANS — THE REPTILE SKIN — THE REPTILE BRAIN — REPTILIAN BREATHING ORGANS
9. 9.CHAPTER III A REPTILE IS KNOWN BY ITS BONES — THE HANG OF THE LOWER JAW
10. 10.CHAPTER IV ANIMALS WHICH FLY — FLYING DRAGONS — ORGANS OF FLIGHT — FLYING FISHES — FLYING FROGS — FLYING LIZARDS — FLYING BIRDS — FLYING MAMMALS
11. 11.CHAPTER V DISCOVERY OF THE PTERODACTYLE — CUVIER — GOLDFUSS — VON MEYER — GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PTERODACTYLES IN GERMANY — THEIR HISTORY IN ENGLAND — ASPECT OF PTERODACTYLES — DIMENSIONS OF THE ANIMALS
12. 12.CHAPTER VI HOW ANIMALS ARE INTERPRETED BY THEIR BONES — VARIATIONS OF BONES AMONG MAMMALIA — VARIATION IN SKIN COVERING OF MAMMALS — VARIATION IN SKIN COVERING OF BIRDS — VARIATION IN THE BONES OF BIRDS — VARIATION IN THE BONES OF REPTILES
13. 13.CHAPTER VII INTERPRETATION OF PTERODACTYLES BY THEIR SOFT PARTS — THE ORGANS WHICH FIX AN ANIMAL'S PLACE IN NATURE — PNEUMATIC FORAMINA IN PTERODACTYLES — LUNGS AND AIR CELLS — THE LUNGS OF REPTILES — THE FORM OF THE BRAIN CAVITY — THE BRAIN IN SOLENHOFEN PTERODACTYLES — IMPORTANCE OF THE BRAIN AND BREATHING ORGANS — TEMPERATURE OF THE BLOOD
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII THE PLAN OF THE SKELETON — THE PLAN OF THE HEAD IN ORNITHOSAURS — BONES ABOUT THE NOSTRIL — BONES ABOUT THE EYES — THE TEMPORAL FOSSA — BONES ABOUT THE BRAIN — BONES OF THE PALATE — THE TEETH — SUPPOSED HORNY BEAK — LOWER JAW — SUMMARY OF CHARACTERS OF THE HEAD
15. 15.CHAPTER IX THE BACKBONE, OR VERTEBRAL COLUMN — THE NECK — THE BACK — SACRUM — THE TAIL
16. 16.CHAPTER X THE HIP-GIRDLE AND HIND LIMB — THE HIND LIMB — THE FEMUR — TIBIA AND FIBULA — THE FOOT
17. 17.CHAPTER XI SHOULDER-GIRDLE AND FORE LIMB — STERNUM — THE SHOULDER-GIRDLE — THE FORE LIMB — HUMERUS OR UPPER ARM BONE — ULNA AND RADIUS — THE CARPUS — METACARPUS — THE HAND — THE WING FINGER
18. 18.CHAPTER XII EVIDENCES OF THE ANIMAL'S HABITS FROM ITS REMAINS — COVERING OF THE BODY
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII ANCIENT ORNITHOSAURS FROM THE LIAS
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV ORNITHOSAURS FROM THE MIDDLE SECONDARY ROCKS — RHAMPHOCEPHALUS — OXFORD CLAY — LITHOGRAPHIC SLATE — THE SHORT-TAILED TYPES
21. 21.CHAPTER XV ORNITHOSAURS FROM THE UPPER SECONDARY ROCKS — ORNITHODESMUS LATIDENS — ORNITHOCHEIRUS — ORNITHOSTOMA
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI CLASSIFICATION OF THE ORNITHOSAURIA — THE ORNITHOMORPHA — Diagram of the Affinities of the Orders of Animals comprised in the Ornithomorpha. — Diagram showing the Relations of the Ornithomorpha to the chief large groups of Terrestrial Vertebrata, and their affinities with each other.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII FAMILY RELATIONS OF PTERODACTYLES TO ANIMALS WHICH LIVED WITH THEM
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII HOW PTERODACTYLES MAY HAVE ORIGINATED
25. 25.APPENDIX
26. 26.INDEX

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