108 THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN. 



elders who cast down their crowns before the throne 

 and say, " Thou art worthy^ Lord^ to receive the 

 glory, and the honour, and the might ; because Thou 

 didst create all things, and by reason of Thy will they 

 are and were created/^ 



IToTE, — Since the preceding pages were written, Newberry 

 has shown that the Diyiichthys was clothed with bony armour, 

 and that its formidable teeth resembled on a great scale those 

 of the little Leipidosiren, or Mud-ftsh, of Africa — a member of a 

 small and interesting group of fishes {Dipnoi), very rare now, 

 but represented by many and magnificent forms in older 

 periods. 



I am sorry to add tbat Dr. Scudder has seen reason to 

 relinquish the idea that the markings on the wing of the 

 Devonian insect referred to at page 105, represent a musical 

 apparatus. 



