Reviews — Hutchinson'' s Extinct Monsters. 131 



quite up-to-date illustrations. The single figure one might object to 

 is that of the Dinosaur pelvis (fig. 40), and here one might expect 

 to find one of von Huene's reconstructions of Triassic forms ; but, 

 of course, all such omissions, though remarkable to a specialist 

 dealing -with Dinosaurs, are of no importance in a work of this 

 popular character. Besides numerous drawings we find quite good 

 reconstructions of Ceratosaiirus, Lcelaps, Anchisaurus, Pronto s minis, 

 Iguanodon, Claosaurus, Pcypsilophodon, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops. 

 We are glad to remark that Biplodocus, the animal that involuntarily 

 did so much to popularize palaeontology, has been likewise recon- 

 structed in the old-fashioned way, and not in the manner advocated 

 recently by a German writer. Williston's drawings of different 

 Morosauria and a modification of Osborn's Tylosaurus reconstructed, 

 give quite a good general idea of the ' sea-serpents ' and are dealt 

 with in chapter x. The flying dragons (Pterosauria) have, with the 

 exception of Scaphognathns (Pterodactylus) crassirostris, likewise come 

 off quite well, but the poor ScaphognatJms has lost the greater part of 

 its tail somewhere (p. 203 and pi. xxxii). 



JTesperornts, the Moa, and the Dodo are given as types of extinct 

 birds; the last-named, with historical truth, is figured as a stupid, 

 sluggish creature, easily slaughtered. If anybody objects to the recon- 

 struction of the bad-tempered and mischievous-looking Phororhacos, 

 Hutchinson can easily plead 'not guilty', for its portrait is taken 

 from a well-known book by Professor F. A. Lucas. The mammalia 

 are represented by Xiphodo?i, Anoplotherium, Palceotherium, outline 

 drawings of a great many old types of ' horses ', by Coryphodon, 

 Tinoeeras, Prontops, Arsinoetherium (very difficult to reconstruct), many 

 elephants as Mcerithertum, Pakeomastodon, Tetrabelodon, Binotherium, 

 and the Mammoth. The curiosity of anybody desirous to know the 

 principal types of mammals that formerly inhabited our globe will be 

 gratified by reading pp. 230-90 of Hutchinson's book. One would 

 not, however, object if in the next edition another plate were sub- 

 stituted for that of Megatherium, and if the obsolete drawing of 

 Piprotodon were omitted as useless, all the more since plate iv gives 

 the same animal in a much more complete state. 



Dr. Andrews' discoveries of fossil elephants have been duly con- 

 sidered. Since learned palaeontological books as a rule do not give 

 the history of discoveries of fossils, and even when they do, abstain 

 from publishing the private correspondence dealing with this question, 

 it is a very good conclusion to Hutchinson's book to publish the 

 correspondence that concerned one of the latest bone-bed discoveries 

 we know of, that of 'Lake Callabona'. Even scientific people will 

 get a glimpse in this chapter of some 'subterranean' movements that 

 might easily be forgotten. There is a long list of literature at the end 

 of Hutchinson's book, and for a student whose interest may well have 

 been aroused by reading this work on extinct animals, this list will 

 be of great value to enable him to pursue the subject further. 



Gilt-edged, well-printed, and lavishly illustrated with 55 plates 

 and 113 illustrations in the text, Hutchinson's book is brought out in 

 a manner that Continental readers would term ' luxurious ', so that it is 

 a work likely to popularize science and well worth buying and reading. 



