Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days: A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mr. Hutchinson, to express my opinion upon the series of drawings which have been prepared by that excellent artist of animals, Mr. Smit, for this little book entitled Extinct Monsters. Many of the stories told in early days, of Giants and Dragons, may have originated in the discovery of the limb-bones of theM ammoth, the Rhinoceros, or other large animals, in caves, associated with heaps of broken fragments, in which latter the ignorant peasant saw in fancy the remains of the victims devoured at the monsters repasts. In Louis Figuier sW orld before theD eluge we are favoured with several highly sensational views of extinct monsters ;whilst the pen of the lateD r. Kinns has furnished valuable information as to the slimy nature of their blood !T he late Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins (formerly a lithographic artist) was for years occupied in unauthorised restorations of various Secondary reptiles and Tertiary mammals, and about 1853 he received encouragement from Professor Owen to undertake the restorations of extinct animals which still adorn the lower grounds of the Crystal Palace atS
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