PREFACE 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 Figuicr'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. Waterhousc 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 



