Pee EACE BY. DR. HENRY WOODWARD, F_R.S: 
KEEPER OF GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. 
I HAVE been requested by my friend 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 the Mammoth, the Rhinoceros, or other large 
animals, in caves, associated with heaps of broken frag- 
ments, in which latter the ignorant peasant saw in fancy 
the remains of the victims devoured at the monster’s 
repasts. 
In Louis Figuier’s World before the Deluge we are 
favoured with several highly sensational views of extinct 
monsters; whilst the pen of Dr. Kinns has furnished 
valuable information as to the “slimy” nature of their 
blood! 
The late Mr. G. Waterhouse Hawkins (formerly a litho- 
graphic artist) was for years occupied in unauthorised 
restorations of various Secondary reptiles and Tertiary 
mammals, and about 1853 he received encouragement 
