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EXTINCT MONSTERS. 



A Popular Account of some of the Larger Forms of Ancient 

 Animal Life. 



By the Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON. 



With numerous Illustrations by J. Smit and others, and a Preface by 

 Dk. Henry Woodward, F.R.S. Demy 8vo, 12^-. 



SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



The Geological Magazine says: — "The author indulges in no rodomontade, but gives a 

 careful and readable account of the wonderful discoveries which modern geological research in 

 the Rocky Mountains, and in many other parts of the world, has brought to light. The 

 twenty-four full-page illustrations are admirably executed, and there are thirty-eight others 

 in the text. There is a freshness about the whole thing which suggests ' Alice in Wonderland.' 

 The book is a safe book to put into the hands of the young, and cannot fail to interest geologists 

 of all ages. It will make an admirable and attractive New Year's book, which every one 

 should buy and read for themselves." 



The Saturday Review says : — " Mr. Hutchinson writes pleasantly and unaffectedly, com- 

 bining much information of scientific value with many interesting anecdotes of the discovery 

 of fossils, and tlie legends which have gathered round them. His book, in short, is both 

 attractive and useful, and will add to his reputation as a popular, but accurate, writer on 

 geological subjects." 



The Athenaeum says : — " This is undoubtedly the best book Mr. Hutchmsonhas yet written. 

 He sets before us, in pleasant form, a really valuable description of many of those extra- 

 ordinary forms of ancient life which are but little known, save to the special student of 

 palaeontology. Not content with the dry bones which have been unearthed by the spade and 

 pick of the geological explorer, the author seeks to revivify these relics, and to place them 

 before us as they probably appeared when clothed with flesh and instinct with life. Mr. 

 Hutchinson has been fortunate in receiving the advice of the Geological Department of the 

 British Museum and the skilful pen of Mr. Smit, who is probably unsurpassed as a scientific 

 artist of animals." 



The Field says: — "In 'Extinct Monsters' the Pev. H. N. Hutchinson has admirably 

 succeeded in his aim at giving a popular account of the larger forms of animal life. In the 

 present volume we have a competent palaeontologist, who has availed himself of the most 

 recent discoveries, and has been assisted by some of the first geologists in the kingdom, who 

 have taken a great interest in the work, and whose revision of the proof-sheets gives us a 

 guarantee that, astounding as the statements of Mr. Hutchinson appear, and monstrous as the 

 illustrations of Mr. Smit undoubtedly are, they describe and actually represent the extinct 

 forms which have recently come to light. It is thoroughly readable." 



Black and White says : — " M. Cuvier's vast and splendid knowledge of existing beasts and 

 birds enabled him to reconstruct from a fossil skull or a vertebra, sometimes from nothing 

 but a single tooth, the long extinct creature in its true semblance as it had lived — to clothe it 

 with flesh and skin and show it, in imagination, in the haunts in which it lived and moved. 

 This, which Baron Cuvier did in graphic description of great scientific and literary beauty, 

 Mr. Hutchinson, in his work on ' Extinct Monsters,' has done popularly and done learnedly, 

 and with the accompaniment of many most admirable illustrations. . . . This learned, 

 interesting, and popular book." 



By the same Author. 



CREATURES OF OTHER DAYS. 



By Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON, f.g.S., Author of 'Extinct Monsters. 

 With Illustrations by J. SMir. Large Crown Svo. 



CIIArM.\N & HALL, Limited, LONDON, 



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