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integuments. These creatures in some instances were, as far as 

 circumstances permitted, even represented by solid models, such as 

 Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins made of the little DendrerpHon and 

 of the gigantic forms still visible in the gardens of the Crystal 

 Palace. 



The advancing science of palteontology, realizing more and more of 

 the fossil remains of vertebrate animals, as discoveries have been made 

 of late years, especially in the North-west Territories of the United 

 States, has rehabilitated many of the former creatures of all the 

 continental lands, whether they had been washed out to sea, drowned 

 in lakes, swamped in bogs, or left in rifts and caverns of the solid ' 

 rocks. Several of these were boldly figured in their living aspects, 

 and vividly described for the general reader, in Mr. Hutchinson's 

 former volume, and its second edition, including some very old and 

 interesting forms, quaint indeed, and strange among their modern 

 successors and representatives. Not excepting even those who 

 know by close study something of the iiumerous links of the 

 wonderful chain of life, all must be astonished at the manifold and 

 ever-varying representatives of the corporeal types that present 

 themselves once more when the dry bones seem to live again in 

 the studio or museum, taking their relative places among, or near to, 

 the several kinds of existing animals. Doubtless many links, still 

 missing, will be sujDplied by either personal or national well-directed 

 research. 



How many such fossils have been found and cared for by societies 

 and persons at home and abroad, the several large Museums about 

 the world plainly show. Not least, the Natural-History Branch of 

 the British Museum ; and of this Mr. Hutchinson has especially 

 availed himself in enlarging his menagerie of extinct animals in the 

 very presentable volume before us. 



Our friends in the United States have obtained vast collections of 

 teeth, bones, and skeletons, not merely with expense and trouble, 

 but often with personal danger to explorer and collector in the 

 North-western Territories. The talented and hard-working palaeon- 

 tologists have described and figured the remarkable animals restored 

 from these bones ; and, years ago, they had life-sized models 

 made of some, by the late Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins, for the 

 Central Pai'k of New York. In preparing, for the Educational 

 Department, these bodily restorations of early and long-past creatures, 

 which exact knowledge proves to have had near relationship with 

 existing forms, and in themselves to be "manifestations of the 

 present and all-pervading plan," Mr. Hawkins must have been 

 highly "gratified in advancing the means of educational progress 

 in America" (Geol Mag. December, 1879). An ignorant Mayor of 

 New York City, however, being told that the restorations represented 

 extinct creatures, said that, if the Creator had ordained their extinction, 

 they should be extinct ; and this great magistrate of a gi'eat city had 

 the models extinguished by sledge-hammer and burial. But still 

 God's creatures survive in appreciable fossils, and by books and 

 illustrations, to the advantage of science, and hence, in many ways, 



