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remarks are made : ' The restoration from a 

 single fossil fragment of complete skeletons of 

 creatures long since extinct, first effected by the 

 genius of Cuvier, has always been considered one 

 of the most striking achievements of modern 

 science. Our British Cuvier, Professor Owen, has 

 lent us his assistance in carrying these scientific 

 triumphs a step further and in bringing them 

 down to popular apprehension. Aided by the 

 indefatigable exertions of the modeller, who with 

 his own hands moulded their forms, the gigantic 

 iguanodon, the ichthyosaurus, and other monsters 

 of the diluvian world will now present themselves 

 to the eye as they once disported themselves and 

 pursued their prey amongst the forests and 

 marshes of the secondary and tertiary periods.' 

 How far the labours of Professor Owen and other 

 learned men in setting forth these extinct crea- 

 tures in the Crystal Palace grounds have succeeded 

 in educating the mind of British public, may per- 

 haps be considered as doubtful. 5 



5 The writer lately made a even names of the creatures, 



pilgrimage to the Crystal Palace, From the remarks of the British 



and succeeded in effecting a holiday-makers he gathered that 



surreptitious landing upon the the popular mind was divided 



island where the forms of these as to whether these images were 



extinct monsters are displayed. inferior imitations, on a large 



Here he found the specimens in scale, of certain animals at the 



question slightly dilapidated as Zoological Gardens — wherein 



to tails and other extremities, the popular mind had a vague 



together with a total absence of sense of being defrauded — or 



anything like explanation, or whether they were not creations 



