Reviews — Hutchinson’s Extinct Monsters. 43 
We remember the Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs, the many odd 
bones of extinct reptiles, some of whose uncouth shapes Professor 
Owen had endeavoured to reconstruct, out of his inner consciousness, 
as the German Professor is said to have reconstructed the Camel. We 
recall the skeletons of the gigantic Irish Deer, the elephant-footed 
“Moa” from New Zealand, the Megatherium americanum, and the 
Mastodon; the skull of the Stvatherium and the Carapaces of the 
Glyptodon and the Colossochelys. 
Turn now to the new galleries of the Natural History Museum, 
Cromwell Road, they are not overcrowded, although full; the 
Mineralogical Collection has a gallery 260 feet in length by 50 feet 
in width, entirely devoted to the display of this fine collection, whilst 
Geology is provided for in eight spacious galleries, far larger than 
any of those in the Old Museum. In the Geological galleries the 
gigantic Sloth from South America is seen climbing its tree, and 
near it a fine and perfect skeleton of the allied Mylodon gracilis, anda 
carapace of the Glyptodon with head, feet, and tail added. Instead of 
one ‘‘ Moa”’ there are now six skeletons of these great extinct wing- 
less birds. There is a nearly perfect skeleton of Steller’s Sea-cow 
(Rhytina gigas), the largest of the Sirenia, and, alas! now quite 
exterminated since the year 1780. There is a complete restoration 
of Tinoceras ingens presented by Professor Marsh, from Wyoming 
Territory, with six horns on its skull; there are two skulls of 
Brontops; there are three skeletons of Gigantic Trish Deer; there 
is the Archeopteryx, the long-tailed fossil bird from the Oolite ; there 
are also the Dimorphodon and the Rhamphorhynchus, both long-tailed 
forms of Pterodactyles, as well as many short-tailed forms. There 
is the original of the Scelidosaurus Huarrisoni, a dinosaur from the 
Lias of Dorset, and the complete skeleton of Pariasaurus Baini from 
the Trias of South Africa; and, though we have only parts of many 
great Dinosaurs, yet, thanks to Prof. O. C. Marsh in America, and to 
M. Dollo in Brussels, we know what Iguanodon and many of the 
American Dinosaurs were like, and now we see them clothed in 
flesh by the author of the book before us, and we say advisedly, 
“there were monsters in those days” without a doubt. 
We do not propose to discuss this book here. The author indulges 
in no rodomontade, but gives a careful and readable account of the 
wonderful discoveries which modern geological research in the Rocky 
Mountains, and in many other parts of the world, has brought to 
light. The twenty-four full-page illustrations are admirably exe- 
cuted, and there are thirty eight others in the text. There is a 
freshness about the whole thing which suggests ‘‘ Alice in Wonder- 
land.”” The book is a safe book to put into the hands of the young, 
and cannot fail to interest geologists of all ages. It will make an 
admirable and attractive New Year’s book, which everyie one should 
buy and read for themselves. 
