Great Salamanders and their Associates 



Miocene time, and they are looked upon as 

 furnisliins: strons; evidence of the former 

 union of Europe, North America, and Asia. 



The great Japanese salamander and his relative the American 

 mud-puppy. Drawn to the same scale. 



Associated with these amphibians, probably 

 branching off from them at an early period of 

 their existence, or at least derived from the 

 same source, were some curious reptiles which 

 have become of great interest of late years 

 as the possible original forms from which the 

 mammals have descended. This supposition is 



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