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Leidy pushed a thin knife-blade between the slates at the unprotected corner, marked by the arrow on the sketch. Then Mr. Sellers pushed in a thick knife-blade a little to one side of Dr. Leidy's. Leidy's exactly at the corner, and Mr. Sellers's at the point marked, and neither of them was worked about between the slates.
The conversation, which was general, would have prevented writing from being heard. Light turned up both slates held by the Medium under the table no result. The light was then turned low. Dr. Leidy was asked to sit next the Medium. Some noise and confusion resulted from making the change. Then the Medium asked Dr.
Taking all these facts together, it is obvious that the view, which was entertained by Mantell and the probability of which was demonstrated by your own distinguished anatomist, Leidy, while much additional evidence in the same direction has been furnished by Professor Cope, that some of these animals may have walked upon their hind legs, as birds do, acquires great weight.
Koenig to place his hands upon the table, and he promptly complied with the request and moved his chair closer to that of Dr. Leidy, thus depriving himself of any facilities of observation of the space beneath the table. The Stenographer was at a table about four feet from the circle of the Committee.
Furness, and it appeared to furnish the foundation for what had been imposed upon the Committee. The slate used at the meeting here referred to was one which Mr. Dr. Leidy here stated that the communication now referred to, unlike all the other communications of the Medium, which were miserable little scrawls of a few words, was a lengthy one, which covered the entire slate.
But even when this form has been thus restricted in its specific characters, it has still its geographical varieties; for the mammoth's teeth brought from America may in most instances, according to Dr. Falconer, be distinguished from those proper to Europe. On this American variety Dr. Leidy has conferred the name of E. americanus. Since the publication of Dr.
Dr. Leidy: In that part of the exhibition which purported to show how, through Spiritual influence, a slate pencil might remain in contact with a slate, the Medium took care not to elevate the slate to an angle of forty-five degrees. He merely raised it to the elevation which I now indicate. If he had elevated it a little more the pencil would have fallen off. Mr.
They have yielded fossils in an excellent state of conservation and in unexampled number and variety. The researches of Leidy and others have shown that forms allied to the Hipparion and the Anchitherium are to be found among these remains.
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