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confidently, and we ^would quote the opinion 

 of a living palaeontologist of high achieve- 

 ment, Professor W. B. Scott of Princeton : 

 " The geological record is not so hopelessly 

 incomplete as Darwin believed it to be. Since 

 ' The Origin of Species ' was written our 

 knowledge of that record has been enormously 

 extended, and we now possess, no complete 

 volumes, it is true, but some remarkably full 

 and illuminating chapters. The main signifi- 

 cance of the whole lies in the fact that, just 

 in proportion to the completeness of the record 

 is the unequivocal character of its testimony to 

 Hie truth of the evolutionary theory" 



The wealth and interest of the palseonto- 

 logical record is, in fact, only nowadays coming 

 to be fully appreciated by the palaeontologists 

 themselves. From collectors and specialists 

 they are becoming not only museum-makers, 

 but so far also artists, not only arranging their 

 specimens in clear evolutionary series, like 

 the horses at Yale or the elephants' teeth at 

 South Kensington, or setting up their skeletons 

 in living attitudes, like the marvellous group 

 of Iguanodons which are the glory of the 

 Brussels Museum, but becoming also sculptors, 

 and modelling their ancient monsters as they 

 must actually have lived. Nearly a couple 

 of generations ago this was tried, as notably 



