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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



[Vol. XL 



Lankester's Extinct Animals.'— riuler this title !> collrrird in 

 book form, of convenient size and well illustrated, the series (»f palcoii- 

 tological lectures delivered by the Director of tlie iiaiural history 

 departments of the British MuM-mn durinfr tl,,. ,,rccedin<: Nvint.M'. 

 Since the days of Bucklan<l, Mantel!, and IIu<rh Miller, the Hriii-^h 

 reading ptihiic ha. not hu'hed popular uorks for keeping in touch 



vividly before^thc imagination the Hfe of bygone .lir. s. ( )l line year. 

 American readers have been even more libenilly pro\ idcd h.r. ilironali 

 the medium of .several first-class popular work., gooil. I.ad, and indif- 

 ferent magazine anieles, and the too often absurd e.\i)loitations of the 

 Sunday press. Thus there has been no dearth of op])ortitnity for 

 becoming acquainted, in a literarv wav at least, with creatures of other 

 davs. 



The new work display, a more rational treatment of the subject 

 the book in hand onr uonld hi. Baedekker or art nuiTeum catalogt.e, 



'Lankester, E. R. Extinct Animols. New York, Henrv Hoh and Co., 1905. 

 8vo, 331 pp., 218 figs. 



