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eagerly look forward. The Brussels Museum now contains ten 

 mounted specimens, and twelve more lying in position on the 

 rock. There cannot be much doubt that these unarmoured 

 Dinosaurs were molested and preyed upon by their carnivorous 

 contemporaries, such as the fierce Megalosaurus, previously 

 described (p. 134). And with regard to this, M. Dollo 

 makes the suggestion that, when on land, their great height and 

 erect posture enabled them to descry such enemies a long way 

 off. Their great height must also have stood them in good stead, 

 by enabling them easily to reach the leaves of trees, tree-ferns, 

 cycads, and other forms of vegetable life, which constituted their 

 daily food. (See Plate XXIII.) 



Should the reader visit the " geological island " in the grounds 

 of the Crystal Palace, he will see that Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins's 

 great model Iguanodon there set up is by no means in accord- 

 ance with the description given above; but we must remember 

 how imperfect was the material at his command. Mr. Karl 

 Hagenbeck has recently added to his famous Zoological 

 Gardens at Hamburg a number of life-size models of extinct 

 animals, thus following in the footsteps of Mr. Waterhouse 

 Hawkins, but with happier results. It is a step in the right 

 direction, for the Science of Paleontology has made such great 

 strides in the last forty or fifty years that a great deal of light 

 has been thrown on the ancestry of living animals, and thus the 

 student of life as it is to-day finds himself led back into past 

 ages in order to get some glimpses into the evolution of the 

 various orders and families now inhabiting the world. 



Just as the Ceratosaurus of the New World is represented by, 

 or rather corresponds to, the Megalosaurus of the Old World, so 

 the other newly discovered Dinosaur, which we are about to 

 describe, shows a good deal of correspondence with the now 



