Marvels of the Universe 



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not brought about b\- a rise in temperature, but by the growing" boldness and skill of Man 

 as a hunter. 



We know much more about the ilammoth than other extinct Elephants, because specimens 

 of it have been preserved whole in the ice of Siberia, so that men of science have actually had the 

 creature's stomach to examine with undigested fragments of its food, and anyone who has been 

 able to \"isit the museums in Russia has been able to see the actual skin of a Mammoth coated with 

 shagg\- hair, while there have even been dinners given in Russia at which frozen Mammoth flesh 

 has been thawed and cooked for the delectation of a few scientific enthusiasts. 



The very tine illustration of a Mammoth's skull here given is from a photograph kindly lent 

 by Professor Fraas. This depicts an unusually fine specimen of this extinct Elephant recently 

 exhumed in the wonderful little kingdom of Wtirttemberg, which has provided museums in modern 

 Germany with so many marvels of vanished beast, bird and reptile. 



THE SPINY SPIDER 



The family of spiders is avervlarge and comprehensive one, but a still greater number are said to 

 exist in the Southern hemisphere. Some are extremely forbidding in appearance, the terrible 

 Tarantula being only surpassed by the repulsive Scorpion Spider. Others, however, approach things 

 beautiful, and one of those especially attractive is certainly the Spiny Spider, a native of Trinidad. 



About the size of a sixpenny-bit, it rejoices in having a series of six spines — each covered with 

 minute hairs — arranged around its body, and these, together with the legs, as well as the head and 

 its appendages, are coloured a kind of bright brick-red. The body, however, is almost pure white, 

 which offers a great contrast to the spots dotted all over its siu-face, which have much the same 

 colour as the spines, outer jaws, feelers and head. 



P/tolo hvl U'rofessor Fraafi. 



A MAMMOTH'S TUSKS. 



Thi8 photograph shows the skull and tusks of an enormous Mammoth discovered in Wurttemberg in 191 I by Prof. Fraas. 

 Note the considerable curvature of the tusUs. which are also unusually thick for a Mammoth. 



