LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait of the Author .... Frontispiece 



Fig. page 



1. A number of bones of extinct animals embedded in 



rock, from Pikermi near Athens ... 2 



2. Head of an Ichthyosaurus, from the Liassic rocks of 



Lyme Regis ...... 6 



3. The skeleton of the Megatherium found in tho 



alluvial sands of the Argentine Republic . . 7 



4. The skeleton of a gigantic extinct rat-like animal — 



the Toxodon — from the Argentine Republic . 8 



5. Photographs of two skulls of Rhinoceroses in the 



Natural History IMupeum . . . .10 



C. Photograph of the thigh-bone of the great extinct 

 reptile, Atlantosaurus, from the Jurassic roclis 

 of the United States of America . . .11 



7. The Common Grey Wolf (Cania lupus) of Europe, 



once common in England ^ . . . .14 



8. Photograph of a mounted specimen of the Beaver 15 



9. Skull of the ffreat extinct Bull, the JBo« Prtmtgrentu* 



or the Urus. or Aurochs . . . .17 



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