On Animals depicted on Antique Monuments. 77 



RECAPITULATION. 



In reviewing the facts which have now been dwelt upon, it 

 seems clear that many species of the terrestrial mammalia have 

 disappeared from the surface of the earth within the period of 

 historical record. It is also true that one of those species now 

 lost is found in bogs and estuaries, in which are also dis- 

 covered species which, up to the present moment, have been 

 considered fossil ; and hence, these fossil species must have 

 been extinct at the same epoch as the former. It is thus true 

 of the hyena, the rhinoceros, the elephant, and the hippopota- 

 mus, as it is of the Irish elk, which is often associated with 

 them ; — these should no longer be considered as fossil, but only 

 as inhumated *, since these last named have ceased to exist pos- 

 terior to man's creation, and the entrance of the seas into their 

 present receptacles-f-. 



In this memoir we have only enumerated among the lost 

 races of which the ancient monuments have preserved traces, 

 five species of the terrestrial mammalia ; but we could easily 

 have increased their number, had we not been most scrupulous 

 in our determinations. Thus, for example, we see in plates 

 Ixiv. and Ixiii, of the works of Micali, which we have already 

 referred to, one of the carnivora engaged with a leopard in de- 

 vouring a stag and a bull, which carnivorous animal appears to 

 differ from all races actually living. Neveitheless as this ani- 

 mal has some resemblance to the streaked hyena, we have pre- 

 ferred saying nothing about it, though it may probably be a real 

 being, since these plates exhibit more than half a dozen of spe- 

 cimens of it, all drawn with the same characters. 



We might have done the same with a great number of other 

 animals which we find represented upon very many other an- 

 tiques, which .so much the more merit our confidence, that the 

 animals whose trails they represent are pourtrayed with fidelity, 



" It seems right to express the differences which exist between such 

 organized bodies as have become extinct cotemporaneous with, or jjosterior 

 to, the creation of man, and consequently the collecting of the seas in their re- 

 spective receptacles, and the fossils which have been destroyed apparently be- 

 fore these great events. 



+ We take this opportunity of correcting a grave error, which occurs, 

 however, in the original Memoir, at page 1G3 of vol. xvi., where we should ' 

 read, in line 2rl, inhumnted, in place of human varieties. 



