EXTINCT ANIMALS 



teeming with fossils. And there is always the 

 chance — a good sportsman's chance — of finding 

 " something new " if one understands the 

 business and is never wearied of digging in 

 sand and clay, and hammering the rock, and 

 hunting up quarrymen and those delightful 

 people — rarer now than they were forty years 

 ago — ^the local naturalists. I hope that many, 

 if not all of my readers, may be incited by the 

 accounts and pictures of extinct animals which 

 I have given in these pages, to become " soldiers 

 of the hammer," as Sir Roderick Murchison used 

 to call us, and collectors of fossils — and if 

 blessed by good fortune, discoverers of things 

 as yet unknown to man. 



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