LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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10. Photograjoh of the living Quagga {Equus quagga), 18 



11. Photograph of the Uving Zebra (Equus birchelli) . 19 



12. Photograph of two Giraffes from life . . .21 



13. Steller's drawing of tlie Sea-cow discovered by liim 



and palled Rhytina stelleri . . . .22 



14. Photograph of a skull of Steller's Sea-cow . 22 



15. The Great Auk, or Gurc-fowl {Alca impennis). 



Photographed with its egg . . . .23 



15a. Egg of the Great Auk, of the natural size . . 25 



16. Reproduction of a picture of the Dodo, painted by 



Roland Savery from life, in 1626 ... 26 



17. A nearly complete skeleton of the Dodo, put to- 



gether from bones collected by Mr. George Clark 



in a marshy pool in Mam-itius ... 27 



18. The living Giant Tortoise of the Court House, 



Mauritius . . . . . . .29 



19. The ruins of the ancient Roman public buildings at 



Puzzuoli (Puteoli) near Naples ... 32 



20. One of the three cohmins of the " temple " at 



Puzzuoli . . . . . . . .33 



21. Puzzuoli or Puteoli in the time of the Roman 



Empire (third century) ..... 35 



22. Puzzuoli in the ninth century . . . .36 



23. Puzzuoli at the present day . . . .37 



24. Imaginary view of Spanish sailors carving an 



inscription on rocks at sea-level in 1600 a.d., on 



the Chilian coast ...... 39 



25. The same rocks as they would appear in 1900, raised 



150 feet above the sea-level by an imperceptible 

 movement of six inches a year .... 40 



