108 THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN. 



elders who cast down their crowns before the throne 

 and say, " Thou art worthy, O 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." 



NOTE. Since the preceding pages were written, Newberry 

 has shown that the DiniclitJiys was clothed with bony armour, 

 and that its formidable teeth resembled on a great scale those 

 of the little Lepidosiren, or Mud-fish, 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 that 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 musi-al 

 apparatus. 



